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With plastics pollution and its multi-faceted consequences having long emerged as a major global environmental challenge, a new United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) assessment is now pointing to the likelihood of the problem becoming twice as bad in less than a decade.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 7, 2021          Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

With the sudden and globally devastating advent of the COVID-19 pandemic having cruelly exposed the weaknesses of the health sector in developing countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) Council on the Economics of Health for All is advocating with a renewed sense of urgency that clear and ambitious goals be set for mobilising investments towards financing for health as a long-term investment rather than a short-term cost.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 938’s trading results showed consideration of $17,018,848 from 94,450 shares traded in 24 transactions as compared to session 937’s trading results which showed consideration of $6,577,550 from 46,645 shares traded in 16 transactions.

The advent of COVID-19 and the resulting enhanced level of public concern has been primarily responsible for what is believed to be a healthier food safety environment, according to the outcomes of a mini survey undertaken by the Stabroek Business among food vendors operating mostly in Georgetown and a handful of communities outside the capital.

Against the backdrop of increasing debate in the region over considerations that include a continually rising food import bill and increased health-related challenges arising out of what is believed to be unhealthy dietary choices, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has used World Food Day, October 16, to seek to focus the attention of the region on the importance of infusing food-related issues more pointedly into regional public policy contemplations.

There is something in the appearance of Quintasia Whyte – ‘Queen Whyte’ as she refers to herself in her promotional blurb – that is deceptively ordinary, as if beyond an evidently creative spirit sits the persona of a genuine ‘home girl.’

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) may still be imprisoned in a condition of inertia in the matter of embracing a collective initiative to shore up its food security and reduce its mammoth food security bill, but as has become customary in the region, individual countries are sometimes inclined to make gestures which customarily fall short of going ‘the whole nine yards’ in terms of becoming a building block on which the edifice of a food-secure Caribbean will stand.

While it has been known for decades that the sustained recovery of fossil fuels has militated against scientific efforts to properly assess just where the world is going insofar as climate change is concerned, the picture has changed dramatically in recent years… to a point where confident predictions are being proffered with regard to the rate at which fossil fuel recovery must decelerate in the period ahead lest the world drifts into the zone of a climate catastrophe.

A besieged Venezuelan economy has receive a sorely needed vote of confidence from the Swiss financial institution Credit Suisse, which says the country’s economic travails notwithstanding, it is likely to grow by 5.5% this year.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 21, 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 937’s trading results showed consideration of $6,577,550 from 46,645 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 936’s trading results which showed consideration of $21,069,806 from 152,950 shares traded in 25 transactions.

There are unmistakable signs that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration has decided to throw a considerable measure of its ministerial weight behind what one might call its ‘economic diplomacy’ initiative that targets, simultaneously, a Guyanese diaspora that has evinced a fair measure of curiosity about such prospects as might arise from the developmental possibilities that inhere in the country’s status as a repository of world class oil & gas resources and on the other hand, the interests of expatriate foreign investors.

The enduring weaknesses of a sugar industry that continues to be besieged as much by political controversy as by chronic underperformance are among some of the key features of the 2021 Ministry of Finance Mid-Year Report made public recently by Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance Dr.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips talks with South Florida WLRN’s Tim Padget during a recent official visit to the United States WLRN: Prime Minister Mark Phillips sees no contradiction in Guyana being both a fossil-fuel leader and a climate-change mitigator; but will Venezuela try to grab its oil?

As STEMGuyana enters its 5th year as a contributor to helping to fill “the Technology Education space in Guyana,” its founder, Guyanese-born Karen Abrams, believes that the organisation “is poised to make an even more significant contribution to mainstream education” in the period ahead.