The past few months have brought with them a healthy measure of evidence that having, over many years, remained decidedly indifferent to its food security vulnerability, not least what, in most Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member territories, continues to be varying levels of dependence on extra-regional food imports, the region is seemingly now prepared to frontally address the issue.
By Kristalina Georgieva, Antoinette Sayeh and Ratna Sahay Too many women are locked out of economic opportunities, which is not only unfair but also harms growth and resilience for all.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 15, 2022
It appears that the disappointing response which the government has given to a request from the Florida-based Guyanese-American Chamber of Commerce (GACC) that a subsidy be made available in order to afford participation of a Guyanese contingent in next month’s Florida International Trade & Cultural Expo (FITCE) has triggered a response from the GACC.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 984’s trading results showed consideration of $38,402,700 from 105,930 shares traded in 30 transactions as compared to session 983’s trading results, which showed consideration of $3,990,590 from 8,139 shares traded in 26 transactions.
Even as she sounded a distinct note of optimism in the matter of the push to further cement trade and deeper business ties between Africa and the Caribbean, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Dr.
Information reaching the Stabroek Business from the Barbados-based Caribbean Export confirms that the Absolutely Caribbean ‘offering’ at the recently concluded Specialty and Fine Food Fair in London made a big impression alongside the various other high-quality offerings from other countries and regions.
Guyana is one of several Caribbean countries that will participate in the October 23-28, 2022 Trade Mission and Business Conference in Florida that will see the region ‘parade’ for US companies, opportunities to explore fourteen markets in the region with a view to helping them to make investment choices.
Even as representatives of state and private sector agencies in the Caribbean and Africa were assembling in Barbados last week to seek to create a ‘road map’ for the cementing of closer business ties between the two regions, the International Trade Centre (ITC), a joint agency of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), was launching a new report that says that there exists US$1 billion in export potential between the Caribbean and Africa.
By Kristalina Georgieva, Antoinette Sayeh and Ratna Sahay Too many women are locked out of economic opportunities, which is not only unfair but also harms growth and resilience for all.
The authorities in Trinidad and Tobago having moved to crimp what they see as the excesses of the scrap metal iron trade in the twin-island Republic would appear to be heading for an engagement with the World Trade Organization (WTO) after the local Scrap Metal Dealers Association dispatched a missive to the international regulatory body seeking its intervention to set aside the current six-month ban of scrap metal exports.
(The Gleaner Newspaper ) – Gervase Warner, the chief executive officer of Massy Holdings, was direct.
By Sascha Wilson (Trinidad and Tobago GUARDIAN) – Vasant Bharath vice chairman of SCA, left, Curtis Mohammed executive director, founder of SCA Vernon Persad and CSA’s chairman Rajiv Diptee during a meeting of the Caribbean Supermarket Association at Krave Restaurant in Marabella.
World food prices have fallen for a fifth consecutive month but are still nearly eight per cent higher than a year ago, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported recently.
Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 8, 2022
Those of us who might have felt that the unmistakable indications of a qualitative improvement in bilateral relations between Guyana and Suriname had materialized in the exchange of official visits to each other’s capitals by Presidents Ali and Santokhi, the widely publicized collaborative work by technical teams on both sides preparatory to envisaged deeper bilateral cooperation in the oil and gas sector and the business to business exchange visits that have occurred between the two countries over several months may well be beginning to wonder whether the whole thing was no more than a mirage.
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