Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname are on the verge of forging closer bilateral energy ties, based on reports arising out of discussions between the Surinamese President Chandrikapersaud Santokhi and Trinidad and Tobago’s Energy Minister Stuart Young in Paramaribo earlier this week, according to a report emanating from Port of Spain.
In contemplating war and its consequences, it is absolutely necessary that we scrutinise the conflict and its outcomes way beyond the battlefield.
Utilizing what he says are lessons extracted from the experience of the more than two-year long harshest experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic, Director General of the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization Qu Dongyu, earlier this week told a UN forum that one of the valuable takeaways from the pandemic is the truism that a robust and well-integrated global agri-food system can contribute to countries withstanding unprecedented challenges, as evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 when global agri-food markets proved to be remarkably resilient.
Over time, Farmers Markets have proven to be one of the more worthwhile pursuits of the broader agricultural sector, globally and certainly here in Guyana, where the pursuit continues to serve a number of important functions.
Seemingly keen to create a region-wide enthusiasm for an accelerated focus on agriculture and agro-processing as vehicles to provide support for the region’s now widely disseminated 25 x 2025 objective, Guyana is aiming to take its next UncappeD event to Antigua, Event Director of the considerably successful product display of agro-produce and senior Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) official, Ramsay Ali, has told the Stabroek Business.
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Against the backdrop of two recent, widely publicized and well-supported events in Guyana and Barbados, respectively, which drew attention to both the food security potential of the region and what, up until now, has been a gap between aspiration and realization in that regard, it would have occurred to observers that what we were witnessing was the familiar hype and hoopla reflected in the pleasing turnouts to view the product displays and the restating of previous official food security-related undertakings by high officials including Heads of Government.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 973’s trading results showed consideration of $10,876,708 from 33,023 shares traded in 37 transactions as compared to session 972’s trading results which showed consideration of $74,000,408 from 169,031 shares traded in 49 transactions.
The presence of Global Compliance Service Guyana Inc. in Guyana can serve as a game-changer for the country at a time when the apparent direction in which its economy is heading will make more exacting demands on local service providers across the sectors, Global Compliance Service Inc.
What may well turn out to be a landmark moment for the beauty industry in Guyana occurred on Saturday June 11 when the locally-owned beauty establishment Cosmetics Beauty World opened a new store, O Boticário at the company’s 346 East Street, Cummingsburg premises.
Neither the protracted and crippling intervention of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic nor the country’s highly publicized vulnerability to crime would appear to have diminished the international appetite for Jamaica as a favoured tourism haven.
SN: Historically, Guyana’s agro produce have frequently met with product presentation (packaging and labeling) challenges in their quest for acceptance on the external market.
While value for money as manifested in proven product quality remains the primary consideration that influences consumers’ purchasing habits, the vast majority of customers who purchase off-the-shelf products, not least food products, are inclined to favour attractively packaged goods which, simultaneously, are offered in sturdy protective custom packaging and, of course, prominent logos.
Despite the debilitating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on investments around the world Latin America and the Caribbean may have fared better than expected according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
The corn has begun to sprout on the hillsides south of Mexico’s capital, though it’s unclear whether these shoots will have enough water to grow or whether the farmer will be able to afford the increasingly expensive fertiliser.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member country, Trinidad and Tobago is reportedly slipping behind the South American nation of Peru in the production of Liquefied Natural Gas according to a Reuters report issued earlier this year.
With the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) having remained largely mum over the United States’ protracted embargo on Venezuela’s international oil exports, a circumstance that has crippled the country’s economy the Head of Government of one of the smaller territories in the region has publicly declared his administration’s opposition to the squeeze imposed on the export on oil exports from the South American nation.
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