Business

Tomorrow, Saturday December 21, will mark the final opportunity for 2019 that consumers will be afforded to experience direct face-to-face marketplace engagement with farmers and agro-processors through the vehicle of the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s now familiar D’Urban Park Farmers’ Market.

It may not yet be rated amongst the world’s ‘blue ribbon’ vodkas, but the Mutiny Island Vodka has created a sufficiently robust regional stir to possibly increased demand for breadfruit, widely believed to be an untapped superfood.

The ill-fated November 27th incident which saw a Toronto-bound Fly Jamaica Boeing 757 aircraft skid off the runway at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri as the pilots attempted an emergency landing marked the start of a controversy-strewn interlude to which, more than two years later,  there would seem to be no end.

If your plans for tomorrow include putting in an appearance at the Farmers’ Market, (the final one for 2019) that will be staged at D’Urban Park, beginning at 06:00 hrs, you would do well to seek out a quiet, even shy agro- processor, Rebecca Abdool, marketing her products under the trading name Becky’s Blessings.

A number of both state-owned and private sector firms are increasingly coming under the gun for what is felt to be their unrelenting exploitation of the world’s oil, gas  and coal reserves, which are believed to be directly linked to more than a third of all contemporary greenhouse gas emissions.

The new Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

There can now be no question that a gale force wind of expectation is sweeping all corners of Guyana arising out of the prospects deriving from our new-found oil and gas expectations, and what is now the imminent arrival of ‘first oil,’ in a matter of days, assuming that the pronouncement of the adjusted timeline announced some weeks ago holds good.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 856’s trading results showed consideration of $20,227,720 from 197,089 shares traded in 22 transactions as compared to session 855’s trading results which showed consideration of $21,163,368 from 229,196 shares traded in 29 transactions.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday December 19,, 2019 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

What transpired at last Sunday’s Guyana Marketing Corporation-staged UncappeD event may well have raised more searching questions about the likely long-term prospects for small and medium-sized businesses in the agricultural agro-processing and craft sub-sectors.

Guyana has been named as one of three countries whose oil exports in the immediate future could impact last week’s agreed production cuts by member countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia by an additional 500,000 barrels per day in order to seek to support global oil prices.

Recognising that the advent of the oil and gas sector will pose new security challenges, STARR Computers is partnering with a US-based software development company, DIGIFORT, to offer access to modern surveillance technology.

Rather than pat itself on the back over such strides as have been made to this point in the race to significantly reduce carbon emissions, the international community needs to do still more if it is to arrive at a point where the worst consequences of climate change can be staved off, a recently released report from the Australia-based Global Carbon Project (GCP) says.

Irene Bacchus’ unsurprising appearance at last Sunday’s UncappeD event at the National Stadium at Providence was as much as a response to one of the creative sector’s rare local market opportunities afforded our local craftsmen and women as it was a tribute to her own sustained commitment to the sector for more than two decades.

On Wednesday evening at the Pegasus Hotel, Nekisha Prince-Haynes launched her first book, “Your Client is not Your Friend.”

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday December 12, 2019

*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.

For much of 2019 the Stabroek Business has sought to focus editorial attention on the small business sector, particularly the agro processing sub sector and even more specifically the emergence of women as the main drivers behind agro processing this year.