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By Zadie Neufville KINGSTON, Nov 22 2021 (IPS) – When face-to-face Cabinet meetings resumed in Jamaica following more than a year of virtual meetings due to COVID-19, ministers lined up to have their immunisation cards inspected.

The Stabroek Business’ recent visit to Lethem and parts of what is known as the ‘deep south’ in order to secure an update on ‘how the other half lives’ allowed our reporter to run into Rebecca Rodrigues-Faria, the Chairperson of the Rupununi Livestock & Producers Association.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday December 2, 2021 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 943’s trading results showed consideration of $9,707,503 from 29,158 shares traded in 21 transactions as compared to session 942’s trading results which showed consideration of $1,526,954 from 7,390 shares traded in 8 transactions.

The Lethem community, more particularly the business community there, appears hopeful rather than optimistic about the prospects of a Rupununi Rodeo being staged this year.

Seeking to demonstrate that  the preoccupation of the two neighbouring Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries is not focussed exclusively on the prospects that inhere in their relatively recent world-class oil finds, Guyana and Suriname have been exploring, through both state and non-state channels, to solidify bilateral relations in areas that include initiatives at the level of their respective private sectors.

Nicola Whittaker comes across as being one of that ‘clique’ of fast-emerging Guyanese women who these days, are taking to the local world of entrepreneurship like ducks to water, exuding all of the confidence which, not many moons ago, was considered the exclusive purview of a ‘species’ that used to be termed ‘hard-nosed businessmen’.

For all the unabated social and economic pressures impacting job retention and income earnings this year arising primarily out of responses to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank is still forecasting a more than meagre increase in remittance flows to Latin America for 2021.

If not a great deal is ever publicly spoken in Guyana about the application of Neem as a pest control agent in the agricultural sector, the opposite may now be the case in Ghana where one of the country’s experts on crop protection is apparently getting attention with his recommendation that Neem Oil be applied as an organic pest control agent in the country’s agricultural sector.

It is difficult to imagine an eight-year-old girl still making her way through the rigours of primary school, otherwise preoccupied with grappling with the skills associated with cooking.

The Brazilian state-run oil company, Petrobras, has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the country’s Santos Basin, 150 miles from the City of Santos, in the state of Sao Paulo, according to a November 19 report by Rigzone, one of the leading global sources of news in the industry.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday November 25, 2021

On the issue of sustained advocacy for the creation of a convivial environment in which the country’s micro and small businesses can grow and prosper, the Stabroek Business readily admits to having been something of a ‘stuck record’ in its editorial ’offerings.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 942’s trading results showed consideration of $1,526,954 from 7,390 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 941’s trading results which showed consideration of $13,595,842 from 75,543 shares traded in 29 transactions.

At the conclusion of what he said were “very constructive” meetings with government officials during his visit here last week, Britain’s Deputy Trade Commissioner for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Spencer Mahoney struck an upbeat note on the UK’s perspective on the prospects for enhanced trade relations between the two countries.

A new locally-owned multi-service company designed “to deliver the level and quality of services that take account of the need to meet the requirements of a transforming Guyana economy” has been launched by a Guyanese management specialist who previously served in senior positions with expatriate firms in the country’s gold mining industry.

With several local businesses seeking every opportunity to secure access to international markets, this week’s two-day International Trade Conference and Expo has provided yet another opportunity for a modest group of Guyanese businesses to explore the possibilities that exist in the Florida area.