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Seemingly mindful that Trinidad and Tobago and much of the rest of the Caribbean are confronted with an existential food security threat that is accentuated by erratic weather patterns reposed in climate change, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr.

Ten students from Camille’s Academy are benefiting from the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (GCCI) Annual ‘Teenternship’ Programme 2024, which is aimed at providing them with practical experiences in the working environment in relation to leadership, teamwork, communication, problem-solving, and management.

There are strong indications among some countries in the Caribbean that the highly-touted regional objective of reducing extra regional food imports by 25% by 2025 is not anywhere close to being achievable in the wake of the setback in sections of the region’s agricultural sector deriving from Hurricane Beryl and the damage it wreaked in several CARICOM territories.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 22, 2024 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1085’s trading results showed consideration of $8,338,854 from 37,041 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session 1084’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,761,889 from 10,123 shares traded in 35 transactions.

Beryl provides more reason for the region to hear from the food security ‘Lead Heads’ If in the light of recent events the Stabroek Business has decided to take yet another tilt at the issue of regional food security that is because we could not think of another more suitable issue to address in the wake of the intrusion of Hurricane Beryl and the further negative impact that it has had on food security in some territories even before she had made her rumbustious presence felt.

Some of the reportage emanating from the recently concluded 2024 International Building EXPO, staged at the Providence National Stadium, focused on the role played by the Guyana Office for Investment (GOINVEST) in the event.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) recently said that its Product Compliance Department seized and destroyed 1,660 pieces of substandard electrical fittings and equipment including wires, cables, lamp holders, circuit breakers, extension cords, power outlets, receptacles, knife switches and plugs.

In the aftermath of the recent rampage by Hurricane Beryl, which has ravaged the agriculture infrastructure of several countries in the region, Trinidad and Tobago has recently sent signals that the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) plan to reduce its food import bill by 25% by 2025 would likely have been set back by the Hurricane and its aftermath.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has been resolute in its commitment to supporting sustainable agriculture in Guyana and building the capacity of local farmers through collaborative outreaches.

Still nothing from ‘lead Heads’ on CARICOM food security undertaking FAO Analytics, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) body responsible for collecting, collating, analyzing, and disseminating food and agriculture statistics says that hunger in the Caribbean and Latin America is decreasing, simultaneously asserting that Brazil is leading the race to reduce food insecurity in the hemisphere.

Across political administrations in Guyana there have been persistent concerns about the physical conditions that obtain at our municipal markets which, to say the least, have from ‘way back’, been downright deplorable.

Guyana is listed among several member countries of the Amazon Co-operation Treaty Organization that could face the consequences of the “most severe droughts facing the Amazon Basin in recent years.”

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 15, 2024

From a Caribbean perspective the news may not have come from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, though the report published on Wednesday August 7th (Dominica News Online) that hunger was decreasing in the Caribbean and Latin America and that Brazil was ‘leading the way’ was not only heartening but emotionally relieving, since, up to this time, there has been no definitive words on the pace of the regional (CARICOM) food security initiative.

Local rum producer Angostura is continuing its focus on international expansion as it sees “great potential” in that area, says the company’s chief operating officer (COO) Ian Forbes.

Whereas, it was not ‘many moons ago’ that the consistently sluggish performance of the Guyana economy had caused the country to be dubbed ‘the sick man of the Caribbean,’ nothing could be further from the truth these days, at least not in the view of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations, established for the purpose of contributing to the economic development of Latin America and the Caribbean and coordinating actions directed towards this end.