Business

If there has been, in recent weeks, an editorial preoccupation on the part of the Stabroek Business pertaining to the hinterland, more particularly, coverage of some of the socio-economic currents in Region Nine, that is to say Lethem and some of its satellite communities, that is because the underdevelopment of the hinterland and the marginalisation of its communities continue to be serious fault lines in the country’s overall governance structure. 

Rupununi stories by Pauline Stanford Rustling is just one of several challenges confronting Rupununi ranchers, says Don Melville, who served as the manager of the Waichi Ranch for ten years.

The recently established local human resources, management consultancy, and training entity, Global People Services and Management Consultants Inc (GPSMC), has signed an agreement with the Barbadian-based company, Caribbean Catalyst Inc in order to offer specialised human resources training to local companies seeking to enhance their people development through training in soft skills.

This year, Lana Melendez and her Colombian-born husband, Fernando, are offering Christmas shoppers a different option through Cata’s, their 17 Brickdam and Sendall Place, Georgetown shop that offers items uniquely associated with Christmas and other seasons.

Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, plans to continue selling off its least profitable oil fields in 2022 and stick to market-friendly policies even as the country heads into an election year, with candidates debating its independence.

By Brooke Glasford One of my favorite books is called The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell.

One of the more pleasing, relatively   recent developments in the local business community has been the emergence of ambitious Guyanese women businesswomen, mostly young and mostly owners of small businesses, who appear determined not just to make a mark in the world of business but to make an impact in disciplines that are not only competitive on the local market but can also, over time, get the attention of markets in the region and even further afield.

One of the important takeaways from the visit to Guyana by a Ghanaian delegation led by that country’s Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, and which included members of the Ghanaian private sector was the overwhelming emphasis which the public side of the engagements placed on a strong private sector-driven investment regime between the two countries, particularly the public pronouncement made by President Irfaan Ali on the subject of the importance of creating a convivial investment climate here.

Just over a year after taking the plunge into the world of entrepreneurship, Indira Jaipersaud appears to have taken to business like an idiomatic duck to water.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday December 9, 2021

Observers of what, up to this time, have been largely fruitless efforts to forge a regional food security pact that can, among other things, reduce expenditure on extra-regional food imports whilst upgrading the nutritional quality of the region’s food intake, may well be wondering whether the contribution made by President Irfaan Ali at the recent Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) President’s Dinner and Award Ceremony will do anything to advance the process of regional food security or whether it will simply join the plethora of high-sounding pronouncements that have been made on the issue over the years.

The noises that have continually been made by successive political administrations in Guyana about moving development in the hinterland communities to a level where reasonably favourable comparisons can be made with at least some coastal communities, have long been drowned out by their echoes.

Having had to forego the staging of the Rupununi Rodeo twice, in 2020 and again this year, the organisers of Region Nine’s biggest public entertainment, ‘money-spinning’ event, have their fingers crossed, hoping that next year will see a significant injection of resources into its coffers arising out of its first staging of the event in three years.

Guyana is listed as one of five member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that have been identified as intended beneficiaries of a five-year Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) project, intended to promote climate-resilient agriculture for equitable economic growth and the increased economic prosperity of women and youth in the sector.

By Deodat Maharaj, Executive Director of Caribbean Export Development Agency Arguably, we have never seen a stronger case made for global leaders to invest in our Region’s future survival than that put forward by the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley at COP26, the climate summit that took place in Glasgow, Scotland.

With the high-profile Glasgow Climate Conference only just behind us, already existing differences between rich and poor countries would appear to be hardening over just what approach should be taken to reducing carbon emissions which scientists say is pushing the world in the direction of a climate crisis.

The now re-branded Entrepreneurs Association for Sustainable Development (formerly the Women’s Association for Sustainable Development) will be staging an event on December 8th at the Pegasus Hotel, commencing at 10:00 hrs.