Business Excellence last visited the Kenyan Ports Authority (KPA) in June 2014, at a time when it was planning a second container terminal for Mombasa Port to further extend its capacity. Shortly after our feature, in August of that year, it agreed to a deal worth close to half a billion dollars with China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) for the construction of three new berths.

The future of work may have arrived faster than we were expecting. While the economy at large has changed irrevocably even in the past 20 years, with movements in the markets being dictated by technology firms rather than their peers in manufacturing, the working environment has remained largely the same for the past 50 years. That is, until the beginning of 2020, when Covid 19 arrived and made everyone rethink this arrangement.

At a time when many UK businesses are struggling amid the economic storm brought by the coronavirus epidemic, one small team in Manchester offers an optimistic outlook on the future. Offers365, founded by Seun Olabisi, is an affiliate marketing company with a staff of just four and a client list which would be the envy of most marketing firms with teams five times bigger.

In 2019, the national economy of Guyana grew by 4.7%, the largest increase since 2014. But while most countries would be delighted with a hike in GDP of this magnitude, for Guyana it really is only the beginning; oil production in the country is set to generate GDP growth of double figures for the foreseeable future.