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GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1038’s trading results showed consideration of $4,569,575 from 10,602 shares traded in 23 transactions as compared to session 1037’s trading results, which showed consideration of $40,763,815 from 151,387 shares traded in 20 transactions.

Less than a week after the Stabroek Business had published a story alluding to Suriname falling behind Guyana in what had been seen for some time as a race between the two countries for first oil, (Suriname’s ‘delayed’ oil breakthrough delaying bilateral ambitions with neighbouring Guyana – Stabroek Business Friday September 15, 203), the French oil company brought the country the ‘good tidings’ that it is on the verge of commencing what another media report has described as “development studies for a large oil project offshore the country” which is scheduled to commence before year end and which it says is expected to position the country for first production in 2028.

Feedback realised by the Stabroek Business from frequent interaction with local agro-processors point to what they believe is a lack of structured official support for opening avenues that would allow for greater access to markets both in the region and beyond.

A recent United Nations ‘Stocktake Report’ that seeks to measure the extent to which countries have been progressing with embracing behavioural change in pursuit of a more resolute response to the climate change challenge threat would appear to be seeking a more robust effort from societies to make adjustments to their ways of producing and consuming energy, travel, work and food production.

The successive ‘shock’ food security scares that have swept across the Caribbean over the past two years as part of a more global food availability crisis has compelled regional ‘experts’ and sections of the media to pay closer attention to the performances of the region’s agriculture and agro-processing sectors as part of a more holistic understanding regarding the evolving condition of our food security bona fides.

Many months of contemplation regarding the restoration of what had been, almost certainly, the most popular bakery on the lower East Coast Demerara, has finally brought the establishment’s twenty-nine-year-old proprietor, Treon Sobers, to a place where he has finally decided to take the plunge.

The local, privately run Human Resources institution, the JTW Training Institute will stage its third Human Resource Conference for 2023 , its aim being to focus national attention on the desirability of ventilating and seeking solutions to workplace issues On Friday October 29, seeking in the course of the exercise to focus attention on ventilating workplace issues that have a bearing on the health and wellness of workers.

By Rawle Lucas All that glitters is not gold is an aphorism that appeared in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.

(Trinidad Guardian) President of the Aranguez United Farmers’ Association Pundit Satyanand Maharaj is warning consumers to brace for higher prices due to extreme heat, which is hurting crops.

One of the ‘marketing promos’ for the October 9-13 Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) promises “a week of amazing activities and events,” a promotional ‘line’ that gives reason to remind the organizers that the event is not (as far as this newspaper is aware) intended to be a ‘theatre affair.’ 

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1037’s trading results showed consideration of $40,763,815 from 151,387 shares traded in 20 transactions as compared to session 1036’s trading results, which showed consideration of $44,440,786 from 73,329 shares traded in 40 transactions.

Not too many Guyanese are likely to forget what in recent times, was by far the highest point in relations between Guyana and neighbouring Suriname when presidents Irfaan Ali and Chan Santokhi were either showing up in each other’s capitals, or else, otherwise making the point to the rest of the world about their oil ‘fortunes’ and how these would become the catalyst for the transformation of bilateral relations which, up until then, had been characterised by a discomfiting prickliness deriving mainly from the age-old Corentyne River dispute.

Reacting to the recent disclosure in the Stabroek Business, President of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) Ramsay Ali, is to meet with senior government officials to discuss a closer relationship between the manufacturing body and the state-run Small Business Bureau (SBB).

Seemingly mindful of the fact that Guyana’s visitor arrival bona fides needs to keep pace with what, these days, in an enhanced external interest in Guyana, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) earlier this week issued a lengthy media statement which set out the suite of conveniences and attractions which it continues to put in place in order to keep pace with the demands of both visitors as well as ordinary Guyanese seeking a taste of the tourism amenities that the country has to offer.

Heritage Month never fails to stir the creative passion in Natasha David, much more vigorously than at other times of the year.

By Codie-Ann Barrett – Senior business reporter The Jamaica Observer This article is being reprinted from the Jamaica Observer of September 10, 2023 in order to afford the local Tech Sector, including the business sector, academia and the wider student community a perspective on what the Stabroek Business believes are issues that may well apply to the Guyana situation.