What has been described as “the perfect storm of urgent need, supply shortages and overwhelmed health systems and governments” resulting from the ravages of the coronavirus has created what the Washington-based social enterprise and media platform Devex has described in a recent feature as a “wealth of opportunities for corruption.”
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 872’s trading results showed consideration of $8,626,930 from 89,920 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 871’s trading results which showed consideration of $7,698,040 from 36,714 shares traded in 12 transactions.
One of the more challenging assignments that will face the country once we begin in earnest to assess and seek to limit the extent of the damage that the coronavirus has inflicted on the business sector will have to do with creating some sort of blueprint for putting those various micro- and small businesses that have folded or faltered badly under the weight of the pandemic, back together again.
In what is seen in some quarters as an extension of the United States’ ‘friends and foes’ foreign policy posture towards Latin American and Caribbean nations arising out of their respective perceived political postures, companies involved in the business of transporting oil from producing countries to markets across the world are now coming under unmistakable and aggressive pressure to steer clear of doing business with the South American oil giant, Venezuela.
Just days after the release of its sectorial survey identifying key elements of the impact of COVID 19 on the country’s manufacturing and services sectors, the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) has tagged the ongoing post March 2 general elections impasse and what it says is “the absence of a functional government” as impediment to the smooth operation of the business sector to operate.
Back in March the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) staged a relatively low-key event at its Parika agro-processing facility to mark the ‘birth’ of Hana, its new ‘lightly salted’ packaged plantain chip.
It is altogether unnecessary for us to allow much more time to elapse before beginning to look ‘down the road’ in the direction of the likely post-COVID-19 state of the small and micro business sector in the Guyana economy.
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Marcia Gonsalves-Kwang refuses to sit and watch what, up until now, has been a rewarding agro-processing enterprise become just one of a swathe of once promising ventures to fall victim to COVID-19.
While small populations and farming initiatives of various kinds are commonplace in the Caribbean, there is still reason to believe that COVID-19 can breach the region’s less-than-impregnable food security defences if the pandemic persists for much longer.
Manufacturing high-quality food spices requires the strictest rules and recipes. In the first instance you must choose ingredients of the highest quality which means that you must have some awareness of the conditions under which they are cultivated.
Having gone almost entirely unnoticed in the global oil & gas industry for decades, both Guyana and neighbouring Suriname are now claiming their respective shares of the global spotlight.
The advent of COVID-19 appears to have set the stage for a ‘hackers holiday’ according to a report emanating from the regional telecommunications giant Digicel.