While in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Beryl businesses in Jamaica that depended heavily on the agriculture sector for substantial amounts of both their local and external earnings are still focused on recovery, the country’s Agriculture Minister Floyd Green recently provided assurances that the sector is poised to make a speedy recovery, rather than have to enjoy a prolonged period of stagnation and/or decline.
Not unmindful of Suriname’s likely emergence as a global oil giant in the not too distant future the World Bank has ‘opened its coffers’ to Guyana’s neighbour to the east that has seen the Bank Group’s Board of Directors endorse a new strategic partnership with the country that will last over the next four years and is reportedly focused on supporting the country’s long-term development vision.
(Trinidad Express) The Government intends to sell its 49% shareholding in Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO), Minister of Finance Colm Imbert has announced, revealing that approximately TT$13 billion is still owed for the bailout of CL Financial.
The fact that this year’s Caribbean Week of Agriculture, which is being held from October 7-11 is being staged a mere handful of weeks after Hurricane Beryl had devastated the agriculture sector in several countries in the region, is surely the issue that ought to be at the core of the contemplations and outcomes derived from this event.
GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1091s trading results showed consideration of $977,814 from 4,249 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 1090’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,229,280 from 8,494 shares traded in 23 transactions.
Guyanese Public Servants are by no means unique in their view salary levels afforded them by government and frequently fall short of the cost of living; State employees in sister CARICOM country Trinidad and Tobago would appear to be bedfellows in that regard.
A recent Associated Press report on issues affecting the Caribbean is focusing the attention of the media agency’s reportage on a likely critical shift in the foreign policy of the Caribbean against the backdrop of Hurricane Beryl and its impact on the region.
While the ineffective application of the rules governing the tint laws for windscreens and windows of privately-owned motor vehicles in Guyana continues to be pervasive, the authorities in Barbados appears to have decided that the incidence of tints to vehicles to the extent that they may hinder the effective pursuits of law enforcement will be a ‘no no’.
GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1090s trading results showed consideration of $2,229,280 from 8,494 shares traded in 23 transactions as compared to session 1089’s trading results which showed consideration of $6,813,616 from 11,673 shares traded in 32 transactions.
Lengthy periods rarely go by these days without one of more readable articles on Guyana appearing in one or another section of the international media.
