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What, reportedly, is an agreed US$10 billion dollar payback to Ghana by the People’s Republic of China for Bejing’s rights to mine bauxite in the country’s 200-odd square kilometer environmentally important Atewa Range Forest Reserve, continues to encounter fierce pushback from a swathe of international environmentalists and pockets of ordinary Ghanaians notwithstanding evidence that the project appears to have the backing of the government of the country’s Head of State, Nana Akufo-Addo.

By Curtis Williams (Trinidad Guardian) With high global prices for petrochemicals and government urgently needing money from the energy sector the Keith Rowley administration has told one of the world’s largest methanol producers it wants all the downstream plants up and running and there is now hope that the idle Titan plant could restart later this year.

The Caribbean Export Development Agency is playing a key role in helping regional small businesses emerge from the economic onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic by preparing them for the export market.

By Jonathan Josephs Business reporter, BBC News The war in Ukraine is set to cause the “largest commodity shock” since the 1970s, the World Bank has warned.

For the vast majority of small business owners who turned up at the recent UncappeD event at the Providence Stadium two weekends ago, the event served as a timely release valve for one of the sectors of the Guyana economy that had suffered most under the punishing regime of the coronavirus pandemic which appears, for the time being at least, to have subsided somewhat.

It would have been more than a little reassuring if the recent remark attributed to Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha regarding what he sees as the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) readiness for investments in the agriculture sector could have been accepted as a given.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 966’s trading results showed consideration of $52,989,751 from 156,479 shares traded in 35 transactions as compared to session 965’s trading results which showed consideration of $75,556,170 from 151,306 shares traded in 30 transactions.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 12, 2022Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Between forty-five and fifty of the local products that were part of last weekend’s UncappeD event at the Providence Stadium have reached a stage of development that renders them ready to be placed on the international market and the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) is prepared to work with the respective business owners to assist them in their pursuit of lucrative overseas markets, the organisation’s Vice President and Chairman of the body’s Agro Processing Sub Sector, Ramsay Ali, told the Stabroek Business on Sunday.

As COVID-19 restrictions continue to ease around the world, international agencies are counting the cost of the pandemic to poor regions and countries, including the Caribbean, where the ravages of the pandemic have resulted in likely much larger challenges for ordinary people.

Two years after the staging of the first ever UncappeD event at the Sophia Exhibition Centre, the third such display and marketing of products from across the sub-sectors, this time, at the Providence Stadium, offered glimpses of both longevity and newness, of struggle and of survival.

Guyana and Suriname are among the countries in “up and coming regions” that could benefit from sanctions being imposed on Russia by western nations in the wake of that country’s ongoing military hostilities against the Ukraine, according to a recent oilprice.com

With Guyana now suitably incentivized to hold its various service entities to higher standards the country is now better positioned than it had been previously to provide internationally recognized standards certification to local entities.

Keen to accelerate the push to expand Guyana’s agro processing and craft sectors into the rest of the region and beyond, the organisers of the country’s UncappeD event is seeking to stage the next event of its kind in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state of Antigua, Event Director Ramsay Ali told Stabroek Business in an exclusive interview on Sunday.

Known for her creative thinking Fashion Designer Sonia Noel last weekend added a decidedly pleasing dimension to UNCAPPED 111 at the National Stadium through a small but delightfully tasteful fashion display on the Tarmac of the Stadium.

With small women led businesses  in the culinary, cosmetics and creative sectors currently mushrooming in Guyana the enterprising owners are sparing no opportunity to parade their ‘offerings’ to the public.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 05, 2022

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 965’s trading results showed consideration of $75,556,170 from 151,306 shares traded in 30 transactions as compared to session 964’s trading results which showed consideration of $13,731,868 from 42,538 shares traded in 27 transactions.