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With the ravages of climate change continually making its presence felt in the Caribbean in ways that have a profound negative effect on several countries, regional governments are beginning to raise questions about the region’s capacity to continually cope with the costs associated with having to fend off the phenomenon.

While the Caribbean island of Grenada has shown no indication that it wishes to separate itself from the ongoing Caribbean-wide regional food security initiative, the CARICOM member country has been taking initiatives which suggest that, quite apart from its commitment to the wider regional food security undertaking, its own home-grown initiatives to help shore up the island’s food security bona fides may well do the island a power of good in the final analysis.

The Stabroek Business has lost count of the number of occasions on which our various requests for updates on the promised creation of a Regional Food Terminal have been completely ignored by the ‘competent authorities,’ that is to say, the two ‘lead Heads’ on what, arguably, is the region’s most important collective assignment at this time.

Less Talk. More Business – that’s what global investors, and regional business leaders, and innovators hope to extract from the Caribbean Investment Forum (CIF) 2024 when it is held from July 10 – 12, 2024 here in Guyana.

Even as the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) awaits word on the progress made so far to push back on its food security challenges, confronting, to varying degrees, most of the member countries of the regional movement, a new report is painting an eye-opening picture of worsening food challenges confronting swathes of countries that extend far beyond the borders of the region.

Over the years, there has been no shortage of state-initiated undertakings ostensibly designed to provide sustainable opportunities to enable Guyanese women, possessed of skills in various fields, to transform their talents into meaningful earnings, though it can hardly be said that these undertakings have had the effect of significantly transforming the lives of our womenfolk and families which, in a host of instances, they support as single parents.

By Brooke Glasford At the core of what I do for work lies communication.

With regional food security now firmly anchored high on the list of the region’s priorities, the seventh International Caribbean Poultry Association (CPA) Technical Symposium held a particular significance when set against the backdrop of the ongoing food security discourse ensuing in the region.

During the course of its participation in the May 6th-9th Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) currently in Houston, Texas, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) sought to broaden its knowledge of the sector by engaging representatives of the various organizations with a significant interest in the oil and gas industry which were also represented at the forum.

So animated has the region become by the challenge associated with finding ways through which it can enhance its food security, that it appears willing to embrace any initiative that appears to be headed in that direction.

The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) aims to reimagine the region’s tourism landscape at the third annual Caribbean Travel Forum, taking place Monday, May 20 in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Notwithstanding the ravages of the COVID 19 malady that cut a swathe through visitor arrivals in the region, Guyana has been named by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) as being among eleven (11) countries in the Caribbean that surpassed their 2019 arrivals last year.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 16, 2024 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1071’s trading results showed consideration of $13,267,800 from 70,259 shares traded in 29 transactions as compared to session 1070’s trading results, which showed consideration of $5,719,671 from 51,947 shares traded in 24 transactions.

On January 5 this year, a ‘News Agency’ report from the Ministry of Agriculture asserted that during the course of 2023, 130 new agro-processed products had been launched and that in the same year, 54 “new Guyana Shop Corners” had been established.

– President Ali tells prominent environment reporter Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali has enjoined what now appears to be an increasingly high-tempo and likely prolonged global debate on what would appear to be the rising decibel level on the issue of potentially oil-rich but substantively poor developing and underdeveloped countries, balancing their immediate-term opportunity for accelerated socio-economic development, afforded them by their significant ‘oil wealth’, against mounting pressures for them to set aside the opportunity they now have to increase the rate of oil recovery.

Even as the protracted information blackout of the pace of progress towards the creation of a promised Food Terminal, as one of the key elements of the regional food security undertaking, continues to be a matter of concern to CARICOM member countries, the wider issue of food security in the region is now the subject of a new report pinpointing malnutrition and hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean.