Business

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.

Earlier this week, on Monday September 23, the Caribbean Newswire broke news of what it said was a fungal infection “threatening food crops“.

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’.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 26, 2024

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.

Suriname is years behind neighbor Guyana in enticing foreign explorers and reaping the vast riches of massive offshore oil troves.

Against the backdrop of the various recent initiatives intended to strengthen currently limited relations between the Caribbean and Africa, the Governments of Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana have signed an agreement for the Reciprocal Promotion and Protection of Investments (ARPPI), a development that can be regarded as an ‘opening salvo’ in what, going forward, is envisaged as a broader swathe of bilateral and multilateral relations between Africa and the Caribbean.

‘Oil boom’ is transforming the country [Guyana] into “a potential player in global geopolitics”, according to an editorial published in the Thursday September 19 issue of the Jamaica Observer, one of the two leading newspapers in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member country.

Just over half a century after formal diplomatic relations between Guyana and Mexico were established in 1973, Mexican Ambassador to Guyana Mauricio Vizcaíno–Crespo has announced that bilateral economic relations between the two countries will be further deepened with the establishment of a Guyana-Mexico Chamber of Commerce by the end of this year that will focus on fostering ties between businesses from the two nations by the end of 2024.

By Shawn Cumberbatch Barbadian Financial Analyst Avinash Persaud, who is the special adviser on climate change to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), is proposing the creation of a fund that could quickly double investment in renewable energy “in one step”.

The Ministry of Climate Resilience, the Environment and Renewable Energy welcomes support from the United Kingdom (UK) Government and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) to equip more than 25 technical officers and sectoral experts to develop bankable climate projects to increase the country’s access to climate finance and improve its response to climate change. 

IMF BLOG Era Dabla-Norris, Enrico Di Gregorio, Yongquan Cao September 16, 2024 Conservative politics has traditionally been defined by its emphasis on fiscal prudence and the idea of a small state while parties leaning left are usually associated with more spending and a larger presence of the state in the economy.

In much the same way that, in recent years, reportage on Guyana’s economic outlook has benefited from a more favourable international profile arising out of the country’s world class oil finds, so too are more pleasing evaluations of neighbouring Suriname beginning to emerge.

In the wake of the controversy swirling around the Guyana Marketing Corpora-tion (GMC) arising out of allegations that the state-run entity has become caught up in a “massive fraud”, agro processors with whom the Stabroek Business spoke with last week and earlier this week have told this newspaper that while they believe that the GMC should remain a state-run entity, a body should be created “outside of the Ministry of Agriculture to be responsible for the running of the entity.”

Trinidad and Tobago’s seemingly sustained crime wave has been sufficiently widespread and consistent, with one of the latest reports suggesting that the phenomenon has significantly impacted the behavioural practices of the work force and by extension, the business sector, by disrupting the manner in which that sector operates.