Business

Chairman of Tourism Trinidad Ltd
Cliff Hamilton
Chairman of Tourism Trinidad Ltd Cliff Hamilton

TT tourism officials differ on future of sector

 A small squall in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) appears to have broken out between two high-profile figures in the country’s tourism industry over the quality of its product, going forward, and the likely future of the sector even as potential visitors to the country for the tourist season ahead keep an eye on the current crime situation in the twin island Republic.

Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday October 31, 2024 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Stock Market Updates

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1095’s trading results showed consideration of $54,372,828 from 48,963 shares traded in 31 transactions as compared to session 1094’s trading results which showed consideration of $15,329,083 from 41,459 shares traded in 33 transactions.

Rice being shipped to Cuba

We may have to ‘give up’ on Cuba rice debt – Nand Persaud’s CEO

Company’s rice now on Haiti, Dominica market Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the local rice ‘giant’, Nand Persaud & Company, Mohindra Persaud, has told the Stabroek Business that the company is still to receive payments from Cuba for rice supplied to the Caribbean island, some of it in excess of five years ago and that the company may well have to give up on the likelihood of ever receiving those payments.

Suriname becomes 175th member of World Bank’s IDA

In a move that signals Suriname’s increasing recognition as a likely important cog in the wheel of the global economy, the World Bank has inducted the South American country as the 175th member of its International Development Association (IDA).

Wait at an end: Local rice farmers gathered to receive their long outstanding payments from Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha for rice shipped to Panama more than six years ago

Will Panama’s recent rice payment to local millers raise hopes of a similar gesture from Cuba?

Given the disclosure, days ago, that the Government of Panama had finally made a payment of $1.5 billion owed to nineteen (19) Guyanese rice millers the question now arises as to whether local rice milling company, Nand Persaud & Company, may not now move to redouble its efforts to secure its own payments from Cuba for rice shipped to that Caribbean island, beginning in 2023.

Barbados Tourism Minister Ian Gooding Edghill

Hosting of 2024 CHICOS ‘summit’ underlines Barbados’ status as CARICOM’s ‘little’ tourism giant

With little in the way of natural resources – as against fellow CARICOM member countries Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica and Suriname – to ‘shout about’ Barbados has, over the years, done a more than a credible job in combining the attractions of its island-in-the-sea lure with its national proclivity for hospitality to cause it be the ‘pick’ of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries where visitor arrivals is concerned.

President of the Chaguaramas chamber of commerce Baldath Maharaj

TT crime spree pushes Chaguaramas Chamber Head to call for ‘limited’ state of emergency

So concerned have business leaders in Trinidad and Tobago become regarding the continually unfolding crime spree afflicting the twin-island Republic and its impact on the business community that the country’s business support organizations would appear to have adopted pushing back the targeting of business owners and premises as an absolute priority as the country’s policing resources appear to be seriously challenged in the effort to bring the situation under control.

GTUC General Secretary
Lincoln Lewis

GTUC to examine making limited trading spaces available on the CLC Campus under strict rules – Lewis

Subject to consultation with the rest of the leadership of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) a limited number of urban traders could benefit from trading spaces on the premises of the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) that will allow them to market their goods on specific days, between specific time frames agreed between the management of the Campus and the vendors who will be allowed to trade there.

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