Business

Stock Market Updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1031’s trading results showed consideration of $26,757,740 from 69,511 shares traded in 21 transactions as compared to session 1030’s trading results, which showed consideration of $30,190,860 from 92,957 shares traded in 21 transactions.

Filthy Capital, exalted ambitions

The Stabroek Business’ own assessment of the prevailing conditions under which scores of micro and small businesses ply their trade in the country’s capital and its environs compels it to make the point that, over the years, official attitudes to ensuring that small businesses that ply their trade in the capital ought, first, to be provided with convivial trading spaces within which to ply their trade; those spaces, having been allocated, the feet of the occupants should be held firmly to the fire insofar as ensuring that those spaces are well-kept, free of the filth and the assorted encumbrances that are left behind at the end of the trading day.

Caribbean Export Executive Director Deodat Maraj

Caribbean Export aiming to make impact at October Investment Forum

Having already significantly paraded its credentials as a noteworthy regional asset, mostly through its highly publicized efforts to seek to forge closer business ties between Africa and the Caribbean, the Barbados-based Caribbean Export Agency (Caribbean Export) has made public an opening for Barbadian firms pursuing projects on the island to access what the August 1 issue of the Barbados Nation says are “millions of dollars” in investment funding for those projects.

Stock Market Updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1030’s trading results showed consideration of $30,190,860 from 92,957 shares traded in 21 transactions as compared to session 1029’s trading results, which showed consideration of $17,534,625 from 62,390 shares traded in 24 transactions.

A pleasing development

It is not so much last Saturday’s signing of a ‘Declaration to foster social and economic development’ between the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) and the United Nations, as it is the actualization of the tenets of the Declaration that will help to provide a real assessment of the extent of the accomplishment of the Chamber-organized Small Business Week.

	Pickles and Sauces

Women-led small businesses want more convivial trading spaces in Georgetown

Emerging women-led enterprises in the micro and small business sectors have told the Stabroek Business that state-provided and/or subsidized spaces where small businesses can trade their respective trades without having to worry about the prevailing cost of vending spaces is a high priority in a business environment in which start-ups and small businesses still seeking to ‘find their feet’ can significantly reduce the costs associated with plying their trade.

Oil and Guyana’s breakthrough opportunity

With oil and gas related entrepreneurial opportunities having fixed world class business breakthroughs in the minds of the bigger players in the Guyana economy, the recent announcement by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) of its week-long Small Business Week, commencing on Saturday May 29th serves as a timely reminder to the local business community that lucrative entrepreneurial pursuits do not stop at oil and directly oil-related sectors.

American lawmakers want to curb China’s role in IDB

The headquarters of the Inter-America Development Bank headquarters at Washington American lawmakers, intent on reducing China’s influence on the United States economy, are pushing the Treasury Department to help curb the outsized role of Beijing at the Inter-American Development Bank, which supports economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Presidents Santokhi and Ali

Guyana and Suriname: Shared dreams being realized

There had been a period of time going back up to around five years ago, when international media reporting on Guyana and Suriname, including the Corentyne River dispute, was sprinkled with images of endemic poverty, underdevelopment and chronic instability.

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