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Stock Market Updates

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1087s trading results showed consideration of $94,124,613 from 294,431 shares traded in 31 transactions as compared to session 1086’s trading results which showed consideration of $9,231,251 from 46,514 shares traded in 17 transactions.

Is the meeting of the 25/2025 target a ‘dead certainty?’

While due perhaps to the compelling distraction resulting from the intervention of Hurricane Beryl, little has been heard from CARICOM member countries regarding the pace of progress of their collective February 2022 commitment to reducing the region’s food import bill by 25% by 2025.

IMF, IDB agree to join forces to help Caribbean, Latin America fight impact of climate change

The President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Ilan Goldfajn, and the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, have agreed to enhance their collaboration to better support the efforts of common members in Latin America and the Caribbean to foster sustainable and inclusive growth and address the structural challenges of climate change.

AMCHAM TT seeking hi-tech response to rash of crime targeting business community

The concern in the business community in Trinidad and Tobago over a protracted crime spree that is believed to be, in some instances a manifestation of a ‘gang wars’ but which is as well targeting the business community has, not for the first time in recent months, prompted the American Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad and Tobago to express its concern over what it says is the increasingly negative impact of the country’s crime surge and the ability of its members to pursue their business activities untroubled by concerns over robberies and worse, attacks that inflict injuries and claim lives.

Vice President of International Operations at America Airlines, Jose Freig, left, and Regional Vice President, IATA, Peter Cerda speak during a panel discussion at the opening ceremony of CAPA  Airline Leader Summit Latin America and Caribbean at the Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain

IATA exec cautions on higher travel taxes

While every regional government over the years has clamoured for more international connectivity, Peter Cerda, regional vice president of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) believes better dialogue is needed on this issue.

Stock Exchange

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1086s trading results showed consideration of $9,231,251 from 46,514 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 1085’s trading results which showed consideration of $8,338,854 from 37,041 shares traded in 18 transactions.

Founder and CEO of EcoSolutions Inc.
Ms Ndibi Schwiers

Eco Solutions’ CEO sees Building Expo as structured opportunity for product promotion

At a time when Guyana’s petro fortune continues to focus attention on the opportunities that it offers to external onlookers seeking to take advantage of local investment opportunities, Guyanese continue to ‘parade’ those openings across the sectors, seeking to attract external buy-ins through investments in local undertakings believed to have the potential to access lucrative international markets.

Trinidad and Tobago
Finance Minister Colm Imbert

T&T Finance Minister cites local institutions embodying good governance’s ‘checks and balances

In circumstances where fellow Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, not least Guyana, have been accused of compromising the effectiveness of state institutions in pursuit of their substantive responsibilities, Trinidad and Tobago’s Finance Minister, Colm Imbert, according to the Trinidadian Guardian August 14, 2024 report, has been parading his country’s “strong checks and balances for good governance credentials” in a presentation at the recent 4th Dialogue on Governance for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean at the Hyatt Regency (Trinidad) hotel in Port-of-Spain.

Belize Agriculture Minister Jose Abelardo Ma

Belize’s Agriculture Minister talks up country’s sugar ‘woes’

Etched in the history of some of the earliest socio-economic links between Africa, Europe and the Caribbean, sugar may well be living on borrowed time as a fixture in (parts of) the region’s economy, except it undergoes a generous measure of reform, according to Веlіzе’ѕ Agriculture Minister, Jose Abelardo Mai.

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