Business

Various earlier initiatives designed the long-weakened links between Africa and the Caribbean in forgettable ‘business collaboration,’ most notably the slave trade.

Irresponsible road use and the various negative consequences of the phenomenon, coupled with the failure of the authorities to match what now appears to be the most serious challenge ever to safety on our roads, has recently attracted a pointed public statement from the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry [GCCI], ‘calling out’ the authorities on what it sees as a heightened regime of lawlessness in the country’s road use culture and particularly “the inadequate management of road usage by heavy duty trucks.”

The surfeit of crime that is currently affecting some Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries is doing nothing to stem the flow of extra regional visitors who have always favoured this part of the world as destinations for reflection and relaxation.

If the prognosis provided by the United Kingdom oil company, United Oil Plc.,

Two contiguous South American neighbours with eye-catching petro power potential may well be an emerging reality for the international community to contemplate as news emerges of what, reportedly, has been a recent major development in Suriname’s unceasing effort to transform its known significant oil reserves into a tool with which to transform the fortunes of the country’s economies.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 30, 2024

Guyana is not one of those ‘hot spots’ – so to speak – among the territories in which matches of the 2024 Cricket World Cup (CWC) will be played where serious security-related occurrences are expected to mar the events themselves, or create a discomfiting atmosphere, particularly for visitors to the country who will arrive here to see the games.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1073’s trading results showed consideration of $11,119,923 from 36,357 shares traded in 44 transactions as compared to session 1072’s trading results, which showed consideration of $27,736,343 from 166,739 shares traded in 33 transactions.

Against the backdrop of an increased focus among governments in the region on concerns relating to organized crime, Guyana’s Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, met recently with a delegation from the Europe-Latin America Programme of Assistance against Transnational Organized Crime, (TOC) according to a Tuesday May 14 Department of Public Information (DPI) report.

The continual emergence of young, eager would-be entrepreneurs in Guyana has been one of the most significant features of a local business landscape that is continually reinventing itself in response to what is now emerging as a purposeful advancement in the oil-driven broader transformation of the country’s entrepreneurial profile.

Speaking at this week’s Caribbean Marketplace on Monday, President of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) Nicola Madden-Greig, is quoted in last Monday’s Trinidad Guardian as saying that while countries in the region continue to battle with what – at least in some CARICOM territories – now appears to be a steadily worsening crime situation, the region, as a whole, appears to be a preferred destination for extra regional visitors, her assertion reportedly supported by information culled from data from a “survey at the Caribbean Travel Marketplace in Montego Bay Jamaica on Monday, which showed over 80 per cent of tourists felt safe during their vacations to the region.”

With time now ‘flying by’ before the staging of the June 1 to 29 Cricket World Cup here in the Caribbean, the focus of the region that is as concerned with the event’s financial success as it is for the quality of the spectacle that the event provides for cricket crazy Caribbean and extra-regional fans of the game is beginning to ‘seep through’ across the region.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1072’s trading results showed consideration of $27,736,343 from 166,739 shares traded in 33 transactions as compared to session 1071’s trading results, which showed consideration of $13,267,800 from 70,259 shares traded in 29 transactions.

Enduringly ‘cold’ relations between Washington and Caracas do not appear, at this time, to be impeding the United States’ preparations to commence the process for the issuing of limited licenses to oil companies possessing existing oil production and assets in the country over those now seeking to enter the country’s oil sector for the first time, according to a May 16 Reuters report.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 23, 2024

As economic pressures and family break-ups impose increasing socio-economic pressures on women and children in parts of Latin America, the option of migration is being seen in parts of the region as the most feasible option.

Whenever the issue of what is widely believed to be the importation of foods into the Caribbean that are either readily available in some territories but which are overlooked in favour of extra-regional sources, the issue of chicken imports into the region is never far away.