Tag Archives: Guyana Business

INTERPOL alerting countries to well-oiled COVID-19 vaccine scamming ‘machine’

There had always been a certain inevitability to the recent Global Alert issued by INTERPOL in the matter of the means by which countries acquire adequate supplies of the COVID-19 vaccines. Setting aside the well-worn expression – no tricks, no living – with which we in Guyana have become acutely familiar, it was the World […]

Tracy Payne is ‘tripling up’ on her entrepreneurial pursuits

Thirty four year old Tracy Payne is part of an emerging contingent of young whose excursions into one business pursuit or another are beginning to make a persuasive statement about the emergence of a new generation of Guyanese businesswomen. Over last weekend Tracy’s was one of fifty women-run businesses that offered impressive public product displays […]

Mandatory COVID-19 testing a contentious issue in the region

Even as the threat of outbreaks of new strains of the COVID-19 virus surface with increasing regularity, the issues of testing and being vaccinated have increasingly become matters of public controversy in parts of the region. Late last week Republic Bank Ltd in Trinidad and Tobago took the step of announcing that come September the […]

S&S Scents proprietor wants more investment in women-led businesses

Increasingly, the local female skin care and body beauty market is beginning to pay a greater measure of attention to the fast-emerging options to the high-priced imported products that have saturated the local (and Caribbean) market and which, not only on account of cost, have become unreachable to working women. The article S&S Scents proprietor […]

International Year of Fruits and Vegetables

Soursop is commonly found in South America and the Caribbean and is one of Guyana’s most highly prized fruits. It provides the basis for beverages, ice creams and other popular sweets. Additionally, it has super-fruit healing properties as a high-antioxidant food due to its vitamin C, B vitamins, calcium, phosphorous and iron content. Soursop’s benefits […]

EXPO 50 made a persuasive case for women-led businesses

Last weekend’s EXPO 50 event at the Giftland Mall organised by fashion designer, Sonia Noel, to mark her 50th birthday served as a pointed reminder that Guyana is bursting at the seams with women of entrepreneurial vision who are still to attract the market attention that they deserve. It will take a great deal more […]