Business

By Deodat Maraj The Caribbean has been at the forefront of the ongoing COP26 climate change negotiations taking place in Glasgow, Scotland.

Guyana’s Natural Resources Fund (NRF) commonly referred as the “oil money fund,’ stood at US$534 million according to information released in the Ministry of Finance’s October report.

The ‘giving’ spirit of a the Proprietrix of the Le Treat Bakery, Joanne Prescod, coupled with the organizational acumen of the Sonia Noel Foundation and Women Across Borders have set in motion an initiative designed to bring a measure of sustenance to at least some of the needy in some communities in parts of coastal Guyana.

By Bojan Lepic Rigzone Staff UK-based TechnipFMC has been awarded a ‘large’ contract by ExxonMobil to supply the subsea production system for the Yellowtail development off Guyana.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday November 18, 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 941’s trading results showed consideration of $2,636,647 from 5,785 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 940’s trading results which showed consideration of $13,595,842 from 75,543 shares traded in 29 transactions.

A rather snazzy-looking Guyana Police Force photograph evidently intended to make a point about the ‘ramped up’ state of the Force’s readiness for what, customarily, is a rash of seasonal crime, mostly robberies, appeared on the front page of the Stabroek News on Tuesday of this week.

Located at Marudi Creek on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, Precision Global Incorporated, a US$8 million real estate and haulage investment company owned by Ontario-based Guyanese Vishnu Ramdeen has embarked on an agro-processing venture that can not only further enhance the value of the country’s coconut industry but can also significantly further expand its agro-processing sector.

By Arthur Deakin In February 2021, the new Guyanese government released the first draft of their proposed local content policy for the energy sector.

(National Public Radio transcript) The potential wealth from oil development was irresistible — even as Guyana faces worsening floods.

By Karen Abrams The recent results deriving from the NGSA examinations in the disciplines of Mathematics and Science over several years raises important questions that should be answered about the state of our preparedness to adequately respond to the human resource requirements of the twenty first century.

Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) President Dr. Gene Leon has said what the people of the region have been saying for years…that they are paying far too high a price for electricity.

There may well be an important lesson for Guyana and the rest of the region to learn from the recent news that Jamaica’s pineapple farmers have secured a breakthrough which now allows them to export their produce to Barbados.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending  Thursday November 11, 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 940’s trading results showed consideration of $2,636,647 from 5,785 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 939’s trading results which showed consideration of $36,921,582 from 117,617 shares traded in 17 transactions.

The garbage-disposal regimen for Georgetown and its environs is, it seems, divided between the disposal services afforded by the Georgetown Municipality, on the one hand and private operators, on the other.