Tag Archives: financial literacy

President Irfaan Ali on Friday praised the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) for attaching financial literacy as a component of direct cash transfers to the poor. Dr Ali referred to the “One Family” programme in 2023 that aimed to assist 1,000 poor households to rise out of poverty structurally by offering families continuous support through financial education, financial literacy, planning and ...

Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton on Sunday said Afro-Guyanese need a vision or they would be unable to fully take advantage of government assistance. He told the 2024 Cuffy250 Annual Forum on the State of African Guyanese that the focus should not be on the government because that would give that already powerful State institution more power than it has. He ...

More than 2,000 primary and secondary school students will be groomed in how to make smart financial decisions in observance of Teach a Child to Save Day on April 12, organisers said. The initiative will be held by Outliers Zone, a financial wellness non-governmental organisation, with support from the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) under the theme “Teaching ...

The Barbados and Guyana stock exchanges on Friday inked a memorandum of cooperation, paving the way for listed companies to trade in each other’s countries. “The two key areas of interest identified in our preliminary discussions have been that of institutional strengthening and the cross listing of securities,” Managing Director of the Barbados Stock Exchange (BSE), Marlon Yarde said at ...