Business

Whither Guyana/ Suriname relations

At a forum associated with the recent visit to Guyana by President Santokhi of Suriname, both Minister in the Office of the President Dr Ashni  Singh, and Suriname’s Foreign Minister, Albert Ramdin, reportedly expressed the view that, over time, Guyana and Suriname had failed to make good, the advantage of proximity to raise the profile of their bilateral relations in fields that include cross-country investment and other forms of business and economic cooperation.

Stock Market Updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 929’s trading results showed consideration of $20,768,855 from 44,243 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 927’s trading results which showed consideration of $43,280,786 from 393,632 shares traded in 22 transactions.

IICA, SBB to roll out Amazon-type e-commerce platform next month

With local entrepreneurial growth, particularly in the agri-foods sector having long been hampered by chronic weaknesses in mechanisms to allow for businesses to access regional, extra-regional and even local markets, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), through its Regional Economic Project Initiative, is seeking to help remove that constraint by working with the state-run Small Business Bureau (SBB) to introduce an e-commerce regime designed to create a new opening for local products to benefit from significantly enhanced market access.

Cuban women shopping in Guyana

Diaz-Canel administration greenlighting Cuban private sector

The administration of Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel has given the ‘green light’ to Cubans owning their own businesses, a move observers say could be the first step in the direction of ushering in economic reforms designed to help respond to the unrelenting pressures which the administration faces at the hands of Washington and in more recent times, the further debilitating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Cuban economy.

Sonia Noel

Sonia Noel: Fifty and not counting

At 50 Sonia Noel has lost none of her passion for fashion; except that her jubilee celebration is, she says, much more likely to bare the philanthropic side to her character.

Alicia Bárcena Executive Secretary  Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

ECLAC boss wants LATAM, Caribbean to become actor in vaccine development

Concerned that the Caribbean and Latin America should become enlightened by the sobering experience of the still raging coronavirus pandemic and the devastating socio-economic impact which it continues to have on the hemisphere, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Alicia Barcena has used the forum of the recent XXI Meeting of Foreign Ministers of CELAC to urge that the region become an actor in the development and production of new vaccines as part of its wider regional health strategy.

Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 19, 2021       Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Stock Market Updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 928’s trading results showed consideration of $43,280,786 from 393,632 shares traded in 22 transactions as compared to session 927’s trading results which showed consideration of $17,605,897 from 47,620 shares traded in 16 transactions.

Oil and imponderables

The national jollification associated with the public disclosure of our May 2015 ‘first oil’ and the several others that have followed had dragged on for some time though there are indications that it is beginning to occur to us that ‘all that glitters is not gold’ and that after the confirmed oil discoveries and the commencement of oil recovery and sales there are some challenging, even unpalatable realities that we ignore at our peril.

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