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The release on Sunday, July 21, of a statement from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) announcing that the former St.

While the economically sturdier countries of the Caribbean are on the way to putting behind them the worst excesses of Hurricane Beryl, reports from the smaller more economically vulnerable countries in the eastern Caribbean point to what continues to be a survival-linked struggle in which basic requisites, including food are still, in some instances, difficult to come by.

As Guyana’s global profile continues, increasingly, to reflect its credentials as one of the world’s emerging petro jurisdictions, the traditional sectors which, over time, have traditionally merged to help fashion the country’s overall socio-economic profile, continue to make their own cases for remaining relevant in a transforming economy.

Guyana is one of various countries in the region that have been ‘penciled in’ for exploratory visits by the Jamaican advertising and production company Limners and Bards Ltd (LAB) to help local companies pursue branding, positioning and strategic campaigns through secure strategic advantage as they seek to burnish their brands against the backdrop of the profile that now accrues to the country on account of its new found petro status.  

The Government of Guyana on Wednesday announced its third withdrawal for the year from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF), amounting to US$300 million.

As Guyana looks on ruefully at the still ongoing cleanup and rebuilding operations arising out of Hurricane Beryl and its consequences elsewhere in the Caribbean, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture has announced the undertaking of a U$US 45 million investment in the strengthening of the its resistance capacity against the backdrop of what is now an enhanced obligation to consolidate the country’s food production capabilities.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1081’s trading results showed consideration of $10,094,647 from 38,393 shares traded in 33 transactions as compared to session 1080’s trading results which showed consideration of $26,927,489 from 84,911 shares traded in 52 transactions.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday July 25, 2024

With the physical transformations, not least the multi-sectorial makeover ‘explosion’ unfolding in Guyana, the need for the burnishing of the country’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) profile has become a matter of the utmost urgency.

Amidst a surfeit of young, emerging, female would-be entrepreneurs  marketing fashion across Guyana, a handful appear to strive to be different, their advertising ‘pitch’ seemingly reflecting an enduring eagerness to ‘arrest’ the attention of the potential buyer.

The Government of Trinidad and Tobago is facing a concerted private sector protest over what the business community says is its acute vulnerability to the present bloody urban crime wave which, apart from its manifestation in cold-blooded murders and confrontations among heavily armed gangs, has also been having a severely debilitating effect on a private sector now seized with an acute attack of jitteriness. 

Employing phrases ranging in severity from ‘pi..ed off’ to ’frustrated’ ‘(eight children attending state-run secondary schools in Region Four last week expressed to the Stabroek Business their concern over the likelihood of them being unable to fill the tuition gap created by the recently ended protracted teachers’ strike, which will now have to be filled, somehow, prior to the commencement of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) scheduled for mid- next year.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday July 18, 2024

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1080’s trading results showed consideration of $26,927,489 from 84,911 shares traded in 52 transactions as compared to session 1079’s trading results which showed consideration of $12,646,380 from 23,680 shares traded in 30 transactions.

As is not infrequently inclined to happen in the Caribbean, we find ourselves – sometimes on account of no more than a lack of focus – becoming distracted on issues that are of varying degrees of importance either to individual member countries or to the region, as a whole.

Whenever natural disasters – or other events that legitimately merit media attention – occur in the region, reporting ‘prejudices’ frequently exclude those tiny pockets of Caribbean people who occupy small geographic spaces in bona fide Caribbean territories, but which rarely for any reason – save and except some earth-shattering occurrence that simply cannot be ignored – attract the attention of the mainstream regional and/or international media.

For various reasons, Rhadika Basdeo makes a compelling case for her being named by the Ministry of Agriculture as the country’s Agro-Processor of The Year.