An international market for marijuana that had been ‘flying’ just a few months ago is now slipping into decline and prospects for the future of the Jamaican market now appears to be ‘going soft’ according to sources close to the industry, including the Director of the island’s Cannabis Licensing Authority Delano Seiveright.
World Health Organization (WHO) current estimates of the worth of counterfeit medicines traded globally now stand at around 73 billion euros, according to a March 2020 background briefing paper on the subject published by one of the world’s largest manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, the German company, Bayer.
Even as fruit and vegetables remain prohibitively expensive in many countries, “public support for cereals and sugar, combined with private marketing and clever packaging, is encouraging a transition to unhealthy diets in low and middle-income countries.”
By Nicholas Deygoo The novel coronavirus is a black swan type of event, one that no one could have and would have predicted at the end of 2019.
By Nina Moeller Associate Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University JM Pedersen Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University Reproduced from World Economic Forum April 29th, 2020 There are growing fears that COVID-19 may wreak havoc in the Amazon.
April 22 will be the next timeline that Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro will be mindful of in pursuit of his long-running quest to fend off Washington’s efforts to remove his administration from office.
The onset of the coronavirus has sent a sharp reminder to both governments and citizens in developing countries of the importance of information technology, not just as part of the broader developmental infrastructure, but as an essential tool in the execution of important responsibilities at the levels of communities and families, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the local technology firm, Starr Computers, has told Stabroek Business.
Kitco Market Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 28, 2020
From what we know of the nature of the gold mining industry and those parts of the country where gold is mined, the reports of COVID-19 disruptions to mining operations come as no surprise.
*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.
When, late in March, the authorities ordered the closure or curtailment of a range of business houses including vending in and around Bourda Market, Cordel Jones, a young one-time journalist, farmer and Bourda Market vegetable vendor, spotted an opportunity to sustain his own business which he thought he could exploit.
Even as several reputable international organizations including the United Nations (UN) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) assert that the ongoing coronavirus ‘plague’ could precipitate a global food crisis, Guyana, up until now, continues to flaunt its reputation as the ‘bread basket’ of the Caribbean by not just continuing to provide more than enough to meet local food needs but also to help meet the needs of sister CARICOM countries as well as more limited markets outside of the region.
Working through the twin distractions of an as yet undetermined outcome to the country’s March 2 general elections and shortly on the heels of the poll the onset of the coronavirus, Guyana’s Department of Energy appears focused on remaining on even keel with reports earlier this week disclosing that the entity is moving to engage the services of a suite of high-level specialists in various disciplines, part of a process of equipping itself with the skills necessary to ensure that the country’s new found oil and gas resources are effectively managed.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the small business ventures with which we have established excellent relationships over the past five years or so and which have been the subjects of weekly reports in the Stabroek Business appear to have ‘gone to ground,’ so to speak, that is to say that what used to be the practice of regularly “checking in” with the newspaper has disappeared.
The nature and impact of the coronavirus on developing countries like Guyana brings into sharp focus the importance of accelerating the growth of the information technology sector in order to better position it to address priority concerns when these arise, Starr Computers Chief Executive Officer, Mike Mohan has told the Stabroek Business.
One of the Caribbean’s most experienced politicians, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, has raised the grim spectre that some small-island developing states – numbered among which are several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries – could simply collapse under what might become the unbearable weight of COVID-19.
*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.
If external assessments of Guyana hardly, if ever, fail to make reference to the country’s poverty-related deficiencies, arguably the most powerful boost from which our international image commonly benefits is our ability to feed ourselves and to provide for some of the food needs of other countries, notably our fellow Caribbean Community member countries.
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