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The recent disclosure by the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CARIBEXPORT) that Guyana will host the 2024 Caribbean Investment Forum, the region’s single largest investment platform, sends a less than discreet message that the country’s long lockout from the ‘front lawn’ of the region, insofar as qualifications to host gatherings designed to (among other things ‘show off’ the Caribbean), could be approaching an end.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1047’s trading results showed consideration of $6,229,188 from 33,138 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 1046’s trading results, which showed consideration of $2,391,660 from 9,040 shares traded in 6 transactions.

Owners of small agro processing commercial ventures who participated in the November 16-19 GUYEXPO event at the Sophia Exhibition have told the Stabroek Business that they frequently “miss out” on publicly advertised opportunities to benefit from initiatives that can advance their businesses on account of their preoccupation with ‘making a living’ and their detachment from channels that connect them with those opportunities.

Arising out of concerns raised by the Stabroek Business regarding the progress being made by the authorities in rolling back the smuggling of gold out of Guyana, a source with several years of experience of the sector has told this newspaper that the continued outflow of gold from Guyana and (mostly) into neighbouring countries is almost certainly occurring with the “full knowledge” of “people in authority” in Guyana.

In circumstances where small businesses in Guyana are still not exactly ‘going wild’ over the extent to which their growth ambitions are receiving sufficiently energetic backing from the country’s ‘high profile’ commercial banks in pursuit of the growth of their businesses, their counterpart Small Business Enterprise [SME’s] in Trinidad and Tobago would appear to be ‘singing a different tune.’

By Antoinette Connell Barbados joined 68 other countries in the third edition of the African continent elite Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2023, a showcase of the massive investment potential for billions through intra-Africa alliances.

Small business owners who constantly fret over the hurdles one never fails to encounter in the pursuit of running a small business just about anywhere in coastal Guyana ought to interact more with their opposite numbers in hinterland communities in order to put their own circumstances into perspective.

A week before the high profile global climate change forum gets underway in Dubai a new United Nations report on climate change has brought news that national climate action plans by countries across the world remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Trinidad and Tobago may not be about to surrender its credentials as the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) member country with the most prominent petro-imprint on its economy, up to this time, though, that said, its ambition to ‘shine’ in the regional export sector, outside of oil and gas would appear to be altogether undiminished.

In the weeks preceding the staging of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture  [CWA] in October no pains were spared across the region to ‘big up’ the event, coverage of its agenda suggesting that it might well be one of those regional events that might play a pivotal role in helping to turn the proverbial corner in the matter of shoring up what we were being told for several months were our shabby food security bona fides.

By Geisha Kowlessar-Alonzo Myckiel Haynes is a shining example that dreams, along with hard work and dedication, do in fact come through.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1046’s trading results showed consideration of $2,391,660 from 9,040 shares traded in 6 transactions as compared to session 1045’s trading results, which showed consideration of $32,702,158 from 97,947 shares traded in 39 transactions.

The resuscitation of GuyExpo last week following a hiatus of seven years was a commendable initiative given the fact that the optional avenues for product promotion for farm produce and their by-products have always been decidedly limited.

A fortnight before the commencement of the COP 28 Climate Summit in Abu Dhabi, there is evidence that an agreement on the phasing out of fossil fuel remains on centre stage, the occupancy by the United Arab Emirates of a strong strategic position at the summit table notwithstanding.