Business

With the March 18-21 staging in Guyana of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) 38th Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (LARC38), the point cannot be made too strongly that the forum should not be allowed to metamorphose into stirring speeches, animated ‘talk shops’ and a final communique that talks a great deal but says little, if anything.

Confirmation in 2015 that Guyana had become an ‘oil rich’ nation triggered, shortly thereafter, energetic public chatter regarding possible lucrative ‘openings’ in various parts of the industry for the trained/qualified.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1058’s trading results showed consideration of $17,953,318 from 82,684 shares traded in 40 transactions as compared to session 1057’s trading results, which showed consideration of $28,841,713 from 78,248 shares traded in 50 transactions.

For reasons that are altogether unclear to this newspaper, the Government has – as far as we are aware – neglected/declined to make an official announcement regarding participation by local Agro Processors in this year’s Barbados Agro Fest which is being staged from??

With the Caribbean continuing to attract increasing global attention as much for its reputation as a favoured tourism destination as for its more recent growing profile as a continually emerging investment haven, the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) is moving to help make the region more accessible to visitors by upgrading its airline route development regime.

Even as governments and other institutions in the region work to clear a comfortable path on which to lay the foundation for enhanced social and business ties between Africa and the Caribbean, countries and institutions continue to take pleasing initiatives in support of further strengthening the foundation on which a more robust relationship can thrive.

While, at an earlier juncture, there appeared to have been some kind of modus vivendi between the ‘climate changers’ and the global oil giants on the need to drastically cut fossil fuel emissions in order to try to push back an imminent climate catastrophe, it transpires, or at least so it seems, that the attempt to ‘paper over’ the gap between the two sides was contrived purely to avoid a circumstance that might have scuttled last December’s COP 28 Forum in the United Arab Emirates.

Global Head of the World Gold Council, Juan Carlos Artigas, has painted a ‘glittering’ picture of the performance of the gold sector in 2023 whilst asserting that the precious metal will also retain what he says is a “strong strategic advantage” in 2024.

What is now globally acknowledged to be Guyana’s vast oil wealth and the potential that this holds as a global magnet for lucrative significant external investment in the country’s economy has become the subject of energetic discourses at local business fora as well as at regional and international gatherings where, for expanding businesses, investment opportunities is a high priority.

To thoroughly appreciate the extent to which the global business landscape has been transformed by the advent of E-commerce you have to immerse yourself in the journey itself.

Enduring climate-related threats that continue to bedevil CARICOM member states, Barbados would appear to have had little, if any, negative impact on its assessment of the likely fortunes of its economy, going forward.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1057’s trading results showed consideration of $28,841,713 from 78,248 shares traded in 50 transactions as compared to session 1056’s trading results, which showed consideration of $11,207,570 from 68,485 shares traded in 28 transactions.

Jamaica, it seems, almost certainly not unmindful of the transformative effect which Guyana’s giant oil find continues to have on the socio-economic face of the country, is far from ready to give up on its own protracted petro aspirations.

By Brooke Glasford We exist in a world that moves very literally at the speed of sound—as quickly as something happens, the majority can know about it.

What is known as the C9 Group comprising the region’s leading telecommunications companies are ‘calling out’ the extra-regional ‘big tech’ companies operating in the Caribbean on the issue of re-investing a ‘fair share’ of their profits from their Caribbean operations back into the growth and development of the sector in the region.

Both Guyana and Suriname are expected to be represented at the 2024 Barbados three-day Agro Processing event scheduled to be staged from February 23rd to 25th according to a report in the Wednesday February 7th issue of Barbados Today.