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Principal of the J.T.W Management Institute, Guyanese Management Specialist, Joycelyn Williams, has been sharing with the Stabroek Business her perspectives on what she regards as the country’s “management requirements” in the oil and gas era and on the suitability of the existing training curriculum to meet those needs.

With the Caribbean seemingly having ‘gone quiet’ following a period of energetic assertiveness about a region-wide Food Security Plan to push back concerns voiced at the level of various UN food-related agencies regarding the region’s seeming diminishing food sufficiency bona fides, it would appear that, for the time being, at least, some member countries of the regional grouping are seeking to take more direct responsibility for their own food self-sufficiency. 

x The push by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries to become important players in the global oil and gas industry does not stop at three member countries, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and more recently Suriname.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1092s trading results showed consideration of $159,310,122 from 493,534 shares traded in 41 transactions as compared to session 1091’s trading results which showed consideration of $977,814 from 4,249 shares traded in 14 transactions.

By Stefania Fabrizio, Florence Jaumotte, Marina M. Tavares Men hold about 70 percent of the world’s polluting jobs, so one might think that they have the most to lose from the transition to cleaner energy.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines pilots protested at Piarco International Airport yesterday morning, but the demonstration did not disrupt flights in or out of the country.

(Reuters) – Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) signaled in a regulatory filing yesterday that changes in oil prices would reduce the energy major’s third-quarter upstream earnings by US$600 million to US$1 billion.

At 20, Quiana Chester appears anchored to – at some point in time in the future  – immersing herself in academia and eventually finding her way to accomplishments that derive therefrom and the various ‘perks’ that attend those accomplishments.

If the issue of jurisdiction over the Corentyne river has a tendency to surface, sometimes at the most awkward moments, what is now the ‘common denominator between the Guyana and Suriname is their discovery of world class oil deposits, a matter of a few years apart and the role that has played in developing a common agenda between the two countries.

CARICOM countries remain ‘off the pace’ For all the international attention which Guyana has derived in recent years on account of the country’s ‘world class’ oil finds and the various prognoses that have been articulated for the country’s future, it will, it seems, be some time before it secures any of those global accolades reserved for the ‘high fliers’ in the global economy.

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.

By Jim Wyckoff Senior Market Analyst and Columnist (Kitco News) – Gold and silver prices are just slightly lower in early U.S.

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.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 3, 2024  

(Trinidad Guardian) The Port Authority has confirmed its daily operations are being hampered by industrial action being taken by members of staff.