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.
Costumed Amerindians with Natasha standing at centre
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.
President Irfaan Ali is very much ‘on point’ in his remark earlier this month about “a lot more” needing to be done if the region “is to reduce its food importation costs whilst , simultaneously, boosting its agricultural sector.
After he had made an undisguised ‘pitch’ on Thursday, August 3, at the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) Dinner and Awards Ceremony for the GMSA to engage government on the issue of the private sector body interfacing with the state-run Small Business Bureau (SBB), GMSA President, Ramsay Ali, had told the Stabroek Business that there had been an expectation that such a meeting was likely to have taken place “in two weeks’ time.”
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1036’s trading results showed consideration of $44,440,786 from 73,329 shares traded in 40 transactions as compared to session 1035’s trading results, which showed consideration of $9,528,106 from 38,608 shares traded in 18 transactions.
Seemingly mindful of the fact that Guyana’s visitor arrival bona fides needs to keep pace with what, these days, is an enhanced external interest in Guyana, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) earlier this week issued a lengthy media statement in which it sets out the suite of conveniences and attractions that 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.
Just weeks before international media reports began singling out Namibia as the likely next global ‘big deal’ in the oil and gas sector, reports of an intervention by Brazil to boost food access for the vulnerable Southern African state was appearing in sections of the international media.
While these Department of Public Information (DPI) pictures provide an eye-catching glimpse of the talents of our Amerindian communities, and more particularly, insightful images of their lives and their livelihoods, conversations with those creative individuals and groups that have journeyed from their homes in the various communities to be part of the Heritage programme this year revealed by mainstream media, may still be decidedly ‘off the pace’ insofar as the real significance of their participation in the event.
Seemingly keen to be re-elected to office when the United States goes to the polls in November next year (the now increasing references to his age and his suitability for another tilt at the White House, notwithstanding) President Joe Biden is aware of the fact that a few eye-catching accomplishments on the foreign policy front are is unlikely to hurt his chances.
Much of the ‘hustle and bustle’ associated with aspects of commercial life in the capital is linked to the ‘goings on’ in and around our Municipal Markets………..Bourda
It was only towards the end of 2021 that the bald facts of what we now know to be the paucity of the Caribbean’s overall food security bona fides were known.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1035’s trading results showed consideration of $9,528,106 from 38,608 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session 1034’s trading results, which showed consideration of $4,920,007 from 7,345 shares traded in 20 transactions.
