Underscoring what it says has been its role over the past year in facilitating the improvement of local exporters’ marketing, networking and monitoring tools and capabilities, the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) on Monday disclosed that it had made what a release from the agency described as “substantial progress” in promoting Guyana’s exports in international markets during 2018.
Staving off stiff competition from a number of better-known international tourism destinations, Guyana was, on Wednesday March 6th, declared the #1 “Best of Ecotourism” destination in the world at the ITB Berlin, the world’s leading travel and trade show.
Carol Fraser is a talkative but thoughtful ‘creative spirit’ who comes across as surprisingly blunt about the condition of women artists.
For all the country’s internal challenges linked mostly to domestic crime and the negative international press associated with the phenomenon, Jamaica continues to be one of CARICOM territories of choice for international tourists and successive political administrations in Kingston, the country’s capital continue to back its tourism industry as one of the main bulwarks of the country’s economy.
In a global environment where even the routine pursuits associated with human existence brings with it myriad stress-related challenges, massage therapy, essentially ‘hands-on’ techniques design-ed to enhance circulation, relieve tension, reduce stress, ease anxiety, improve sleep and promote relaxation, have become as widespread a resort for people the world over as visits to the doctor.
Facilitating exchanges between and amongst groups of Guyanese farmers whose livelihoods are intertwined in the fortunes of the land is one of the more important pursuits of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC).
We met Kevin Murray and Carolyn Caesar-Murray at The Women Expo, a Sonia Noel Foundation for Creative Arts (SNFCA) event staged in collaboration with the Women’s Association for Sustained Development.
One of the high points in the development of Guyana’s manufacturing sector in recent years has been the emergence of a growing number of small and medium scale agro-processors whose products have secured increasing levels of consumer acceptance on the local market.
Breadfruit is widely believed to have been cultivated for over 3,000 years and is now widely consumed in Africa, Asia and in other tropical countries including the Caribbean.
Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday March 7, 2019
Two days ago, at the the world’s leading Travel and Trade Show, the ITB Berlin, staving off stiff competition from a number of better-known international tourism destinations, Guyana was declared the #1 “Best of Ecotourism” destination in the world.
*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corportation or Ministry of Agriculture.
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For all the talk in the Caribbean regarding the relatively food secure status of many of the territories, the real picture is not one that generates unbridled optimism according to an article headlined “Five Overlooked Facts About Caribbean Food Security” authored by the Barbadian writer, Daphne Ewing-Chow, and published on February 20th in Forbes magazine.
Last Sunday was one of those days when fruit and vegetables ‘was lickin dog’ (one of those colloquialisms employed to describe a glut of food items on the local market) at the Farmers’ Market close to the Georgetown Fire Station.
It occurred to Sursattie Paul to venture into a modest enterprise re-packaging spices and home-made sweetmeats while she was employed as a merchandiser with the Bounty Supermarket chain.
Retired University of Guyana Engineering, Drawing and Design Lecturer, Andy Moore, who served for several years as one of the country’s more prominent Industrial Arts teachers has told Stabroek Business that given what would appear to be the trajectory of the country’s developmental focus, what he sees as a decline in the focus of Technical Drawing in the schools’ curriculum could come back to haunt us “in a big way” once we begin “what one imagines will be a major infrastructure development programme to go along with our wider ambitions as a nation.”
What’s in a brand? The premise of the second article you’ll be seeing from me, #Made in Guyana, is to really highlight Guyanese-made products on the market that may not be easily recognizable.
Already having led the way for the Caribbean in the popularisation of a range of canned agro-produced foods in parts of the United States and Europe, the highly accomplished Jamaican company, Grace Kennedy (GK) is further broadening the base of its convenience-food offerings to eight states in the USA, a move which the Jamaica Gleaner says will test just how much the American palate can handle the company’s aggressively spiced jerked wings.
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