Outgoing Agriculture Minister Noel Holder on Saturday told attendees at the commissioning ceremony for the new Parika Agro Processing entity that the opening of the state-run facility will better position the country’s agro-processing sector to raise its game by consolidating its impact on the international market.
If the University of the West Indies’ Cave Hill Campus gets its way, employers across the Caribbean may find themselves under greater pressure than they are at this time to pay attention to workplace wellness as part of their obligation to their employees.
This year’s Women in Business event, which will be staged on Friday March 20th and Saturday March 21st at the Pegasus Hotel seems set to mobilize women from all walks of life, determined to take their entrepreneurial pursuits to the ‘next level.’
ExxonMobil which is currently conducting one of its biggest oil exploration and recovery operations offshore Guyana, has reportedly released a model framework for industry-wide methane regulations.
From the standpoint of its ‘graduation’ from the status of a condition in which possession of even tiny quantities of the substance could result in brushes with the law, to its current status of having now been widely embraced as a highly regarded medical tool, cannabis has travelled leagues in a relatively short time.
If you google mentorship you can read hundreds of articles about why you ‘need’ a mentor to survive in your career— particularly in entrepreneurship.
Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday March 6, 2020
*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 867’s trading results showed consideration of $3,325,437 from 24,345 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 866’s trading results which showed consideration of $13,755,557 from 89,820 shares traded in 30 transactions.
Preparations for the second staging of the Guyana Trade and Investment Exhibition (GuyTIE), having been pushed forward from the month of March to allow for a clear gap between the March 2 general elections and the event itself, will, presumably, begin in earnest shortly.
In what is being seen in the local retail industry as a step in the direction of closer collaboration between Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago in the food distribution sector, the popular Trinidadian food distribution brand, Coss Cutters, through its Farm, East Bank Demerara outlet, has teamed up with the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Guyana Shop to help to accelerate the distribution of locally produced foods and other consumer items here.
Unsurprisingly, the future of Guyana’s traditional agricultural economy in the wake of the emergence of oil & gas and the fanciful futuristic dreams that have attended a projected economic explosion, has, up until now, attracted a great deal less than the level of public discourse that it perhaps merits.
Evidence of the continual strengthening of links between the agricultural and agro-processing sectors is evidenced in the fact that, increasingly and as their financial fortunes become more favourable, agro-processors are beginning to examine the prospects of investing in modest agricultural plots, sufficient to cultivate crops that are tied to their agro-processing pursuits and perhaps to utilise whatever remains for their own purposes.
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By Raymond Trotz Introduction With the advent of oil, talk of diversifying our economy has intensified with particular emphasis on its agricultural base.
Not everyone has had the opportunity to transform a passion into a full-fledged business enterprise, so that for all the challenges that she has had to face in the process of so doing, Melana Hudson concedes not just that she is privileged to enjoy the best of both worlds but that she never fails to count her blessings.
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Average Wholesale and Retail Prices The new Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 27, 2020
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