Business

In recent weeks, the Stabroek Business has published several stories which, in one way or another, focus on what we believe to have been the accomplishments of the agro-processing sector in 2019.

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Starr Computers Chief Executive Officer Mike Mohan last Friday told Stabroek Business that the business-related opportunities that promise to derive from the country’s oil & gas sector must become available to Guyanese entrepreneurs, both at home and abroad.

Long before Guyana becomes numbered among the ranks of the world’s major oil suppliers, informed opinion on the industry would already appear to be anticipating that its oil exports could impact significantly on global supplies and by extension, prices.

Reformed global trade policies that eschew protectionism and promote open and transparent markets can help mitigate the risk of severe price spikes on both national and international markets, reduce price volatility and help reverse worsening food insecurity among vulnerable populations, the deliberations of the January 16th – 18th Twelfth Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in Berlin has concluded.

During the course of 2019 the Stabroek Business provided extensive coverage of the agro-processing sector.

By Joycelyn T. Williams There is underway in Guyana, an unforeseen revolution in the creation, and growth of small business.

Bibi Khan is an unfussy 30-year-old woman whose life – at least much of it – is taken up by the beauty business.

Seized of its own strategic interests rather than any new-found change of heart towards the Maduro administration in Caracas, the Trump administration has moved the goalposts once again in the matter of the presence of US oil companies in Venezuela.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday Januuary 23, 2020

*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 somewhat muted debate on the subject of food security which had for a while been accentuated by the advent of oil as a factor in the Guyana economy is beginning.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 861’s trading results showed consideration of $3,128,037 from 16,718 shares traded in 23 transactions as compared to session 860’s trading results which showed consideration of $16,113,346 from 198,076 shares traded in 22 transactions.

If there is an iota of contrived modesty somewhere within Camille Deokie-Gorakh, it is smothered beneath a persona that appears instinctively warm and outreaching, a disposition that compels her to tell her own considerable story without overdoing and yet without failing to include the pertinent details, however small those may seem.

Even as global fossil fuel exploration, not least the world’s major oil exploration companies, face what all too frequently has been a humbling pushback from the growing army of environmental lobbyists, the membership of which has been buttressed in recent years by high-profile supporters, not least, the United Nations, advocates of continued investments in fossil fuel exploration and exploitation continue to have their moments, the year 2019 decidedly providing much to ‘shout about’ insofar as significant new oil finds are concerned.

All too frequently denied ready access to critical information on manufacturing processes associated with popular product lines in the food, cosmetics and fashion industries, consumers the world over continue to unwittingly run health risks associated with consuming or applying products that may, sooner or later, seriously compromise their health.

While the Small Business Act of Guyana (2004) provides a legal context that both defines the small business and sets out the paradigms within which such businesses operate, the growth and development of the small business sector has not, up until now, advanced to a level that might have been anticipated.

With the widely anticipated oil & gas-powered growth in the Guyana economy having already realised evidence of efforts to step up standards in some sectors of the Guyana economy, local cosmetologist and massage therapist, Marcia Trotz, is determined that her own enterprise will not get left behind.

I love parables. The simplicity in them – turning initial confusion, into absolute clarity – and then being able to apply the principle to your life in a way that does not drain you of energy and resources.