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Eating fruits and vegetables (Third Instalment) Fruit and vegetables are a vital part of cuisines around the world.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 4, 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 900’s trading results showed consideration of $35,707,095 from 340,135 shares traded in 35 transactions as compared to session 899’s trading results which showed consideration of $72,180,515 from 870,482 shares traded in 33 transactions.

The prospects that could accrue to the local business sector arising out of the Local Content opportunities deriving from anticipated oil and gas-related foreign investor pursuits was one of the focal points of last Thursday’s address by Dr Ashni Singh at the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce’s 131st Awards Ceremony, unsurprisingly so, since Local Content and what it could mean for the fortunes of the Guyana business community has, for the most part, been uppermost on the agenda of our Business Support Organisations (BSOs).

With the Trump administration now having passed noisily into history, US oil companies appear to be wasting no time in seeking to persuade the administration of the country’s new President, Joe Biden, to roll back the crippling sanctions which have placed harsh restrictions on Venezuela’s oil exports and damaged the sector as a whole to a point where repair could take a time span that is difficult to determine.

Ordinary Guyanese as well as the country’s business community will be keen to see the outcomes of the US$12.7 million agreement between the governments of Guyana and India signed earlier this month for the design, construction, and supply of an ocean-going passenger and cargo vessel for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member country.

Not even the reality of a global pandemic that poses an equal threat to rich and poor has been able to banish the spectre of the weighted privilege linked to the rich/poor divide among nations.

Research into a tea culture said to have had its origins somewhere in the region of 2727 BC locates the practice in the traditions of the older civilizations of China, India, and Japan, prior to its more recent association with the Drawing Rooms of the European middle and upper classes.

Eco Solutions is one of the hundreds of manifestations of the considerable creative imagination of Guyanese women, reflected mostly in the agro-processing, craft, and furniture design sectors in Guyana.

The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) having declared 2021 International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV), it is expected that Guyana will play a lead role, not just locally, but at the level of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in ensuring that IYFV results in, among other things, an enhanced appreciation at the level of member countries of CARICOM of the importance of fruits and vegetables to the diet of their respective populations as well as, here in Guyana, a maximising of the local and overseas market opportunities that can be derived from fruit and vegetables sub-sectors of the agricultural sector.

Exxon Mobil is among the big players in the global oil and gas exploration and recovery industry that significantly slowed down their respective searches for oil and gas in 2020, as the onset of the novel coronavirus impacted energy prices, triggering sharp cuts in spending by the major oil companies.

The Massy Group of Companies of Trinidad and Tobago has announced that it is making available more than US$1 million to develop and deliver programmes to entrepreneurs across the Caribbean.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 8, 2019

The recent release by the Ministry of Public Works of a statement on the subject of an “Update on Emergency Repairs to MV Kimbia & MV Barima” indicates that “remedial works” on the two vessels “are still ongoing and will be completed soon.”

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 899’s trading results showed consideration of $72,180,515 from 870,482 shares traded in 33 transactions as compared to session 898’s trading results which showed consideration of $74,718,149 from 881,469 shares traded in 41 transactions.

Guyana may not be ranked amongst the global elite insofar as the agriculture and agro-processing industries are concerned, but the international portents provide good reason for unbridled optimism regarding the potential of those sectors to contribute significantly to the growth of the country’s economy.