‘Teacher Sharon’, Kumawattie Ramkoomar Isurdeen, is a quiet, unassuming young woman who serves as Head of the Department of Agriculture Science at Cummings Lodge Secondary School and who believes that the drive to enhance her charges’ enthusiasm for the discipline has to be designed to take them beyond seeing it as just another subject to add to their list of CXC ‘conquests’.
A roughly five-mile drive out of Lethem will get you to St Ignatius.
The outcomes of the just concluded United Nations-organised conference in Nairobi, Kenya on an internationally binding agreement designed to rein in what is now globally regarded as a crisis resulting from the unstoppable proliferation of plastics and the attendant environmental consequences may well have missed the attention of those who may have opted for monitoring the ongoing crisis in Eastern Europe.
His Excellency, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali received high commendations by CARICOM Heads, on Wednesday, for his aggressive approach towards reducing the regional food import bill, and creating opportunities to spur further investments within Caribbean nations.
Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday March 03, 2022
One of the predictable developments that appears to have derived from the recently concluded Thirty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was the official ‘anointing’ of President Irfaan Ali as the ‘lead’ CARICOM Head on the issue of regional food security.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 956’s trading results showed consideration of $16,748,057 from 56,983 shares traded in 36 transactions as compared to session 955’s trading results which showed consideration of $12,617,759 from 44,512 shares traded in 38 transactions.
Fresh from her recent visit to Guyana to attend Guyana’s high-profile international oil and gas conference, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley earlier this week provided the media in Barbados with a fulsome briefing on her visit, asserting in her assessment of the visit that the discovery and subsequent recovery of oil offshore Guyana had now made the country a “global player” in the international oil & gas industry.
The fact that Guyana has been ‘out of the blocks’ first in terms of the laying down a definitive ‘marker’ underlining South America’s newly found clout as an oil ‘power,’ all of the portents including those that rely on dependable industry analyses suggest that Suriname is not too far behind.
We first met Vishnu Ramdeen back in 2016 at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre during the staging of Guyana’s first ever Coconut Festival.
Even as micro and small businesses drawn predominantly from the agro-processing, handicraft, fashion, and light manufacturing sectors, express appreciation for the recent product display staged by the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) to coincide with the last week’s high profile oil & gas forum hosted by the Government of Guyana, participants continue to be concerned that their involvement in events of this kind are seen largely as decorative add-ons rather than initiatives that are planned and executed in a manner that make a meaningful contribution to helping them consolidate their respective entrepreneurial pursuits.
It is not particularly difficult to see why the costs associated with the processes of recovery and post-recovery movement and storage of crude oil is such an astronomically costly exercise.
Seemingly indifferent to the fast expanding global environmental lobby that targets pushing back the production of plastics, international oil companies are reportedly positioning themselves to invest a mammoth US$500 billion in new petrochemical plants to increase production of the commodity.
Aims: · To leverage the extractive value chain to generate sustained and inclusive growth through economic diversification and employment opportunities.
Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 24, 2022
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 955’s trading results showed consideration of $12,617,759 from 44,512 shares traded in 38 transactions as compared to session 954’s trading results which showed consideration of $13,977,878 from 47,738 shares traded in 48 transactions.
Back in November last year the government announced that it had created a “working committee” to address the issue of putting in place arrangements for the training of Guyanese in tourism–related disciplines.
Ongoing oil recovery pursuits in South America, notably in Guyana and Brazil, are key factors influencing the increased production of Floating, Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units, vessels used by the offshore oil & gas industry for the production and processing of hydrocarbons and for the storage of oil until it can be transferred to a tanker.
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