• 813 grants disbursed 2014 -2019
• 78% of clients still in business
A packed reception hall at the Regency Suites Hotel in Georgetown on Friday, February 14, witnessed the staging of the first ever awards ceremony hosted by the local Small Business Bureau (SBB) just over six years after government had teamed up with the Inter-American Development Bank to unveil a US$10 million initiative targeting local resource-starved small businesses by offering loans and grants to their proprietors and providing guarantees for loans secured from local commercial banks.
More robust financial backing for its member countries is one of the standout undertakings given by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) through its president, Dr Warren Smith, in Barbados last week.
If she concedes that her own pursuit of a career in creative disciplines arose out of being “first pushed by my mother,” Shonta Noel is quick to add that she had always been aware of the need “to be my own person” rather than to dwell “in the shadow of my mother.”
Local education on the peculiarities of the oil & gas industry are likely to come thick and fast even as Guyana proceeds to reap the anticipated rich returns from it world-class oil find.
One of the key functions of the Guyana Shop, as we understand it, is to serve as a display and marketing facility to raise awareness of the availability of some local products, mostly foods, beverages, spices and condiments as they become available.
For more than ten years Marisa Jaisingh has been steadily honing her skills in a wide array of decorating services, not least, what she says is the increasing in-demand skill of balloon artistry and, over time, transforming her talents into a business enterprise which, she says, is paying dividends.
Kitco Market Data
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 20, 2020Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
*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.
A week ago today the Small Business Bureau (SBB) held its first ever Awards Presentation ceremony to recognize those small businesses which, with its help have been able to grow their enterprises to a level that had won them pleasing levels of recognition and patronage.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 865’s trading results showed consideration of $7,348,114 from 90,616 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 864’s trading results which showed consideration of $9,883,937 from 103,058 shares traded in 26 transactions.
Guyana’s 2015 oil find and more specifically the country’s anticipated 120,000 barrels per day production is expected to be the main driver behind the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) projected regional GDP growth of 4.1% for 2020, the Bank’s President Dr Warren Smith declared at a press conference in Barbados on Tuesday.
In pursuit of what the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) says is its sustained drive to optimise market opportunities for local agricultural and agro-processed produce among local consumers, the state agency will, on Friday, February 22, stage a Mini Mash Market Expo in collaboration with Coss Cutters at its Farm, East Bank Demerara, outlet.
Jo-Ann Forde’s background is not your run-of-the-mill one. She is the daughter of a pair of Assemblies of God pastors, who some years ago, opted to relocate to the Rupununi to preach the Gospel there.
When account is taken of the sustained squeeze that the Trump administration has placed on the administration of President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, targeting particularly the country’s oil & gas sector, the country can be considered as having been afforded some breathing space in recent months.
The creative community in the Caribbean is being afforded the opportunity to access funding through financing provided by The Cultural and Creative Indus-tries Innovation Fund (CIIF), which is administered by the Caribbean Development Bank.
While the legality and use of marijuana remains a hotly debated issue in some parts of the Caribbean and elsewhere around the world, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member country Jamaica (as the Stabroek Business has been reporting) continues to parade to the rest of the region both the monetary and medicinal value of the plant commonly known as ‘ganja’.
This week’s disclosure that, in the period ahead, Guyana will be home to a US$75 million Marriott-branded hotel is probably not altogether surprising given what we are continually being told is likely to be the considerable levels of foreign investment that will come on the back of the emergence of our oil and gas industry.
