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Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 13, 2020          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 864’s trading results showed consideration of $9,883,937 from 103,058 shares traded in 26 transactions as compared to session 863’s trading results which showed consideration of $42,443,102 from 76,212 shares traded in 20 transactions.

The Ministry of Education on Monday launched what may well be the most all-inclusive initiative up to this time to equip Guyanese with a working knowledge of aspects of the oil and gas sector when it unveiled its two on-line courses at an event held at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre.

A great many of the current and growing small business enterprises in areas that include agro-processing, craft, clothing, fabric design and foods, to name a few, had their origins in initiatives undertaken by individuals and groups of women from poor rural communities searching for ways to subsidise modest existing incomes through one form or another of self-employment.

Blinded perhaps by the headlights into which we glare directly and which, perhaps, cause us to see only the ‘bright side’ of the oil & gas story arising out of ExxonMobil’s huge and still growing oil finds offshore Guyana, there is every likelihood that we are inclined not to look too far beyond those prospects that have to do with our years of waiting for our oil ‘miracle.’

Just how far the influence of the United States extends in applying strong pressures on out-of-favour political administrations was again reflected last week when Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley broke the news to his country that what had promised to be an economically game-changing bilateral agreement between his country and Venezuela for the exploitation of a gas-rich area shared by the two countries had been put on hold.

The local private training institution, JTW Management Institute has rolled out its new suite of training programmes for the first half of  2020 which embraces disciplines ranging from basic proficiency in English and Mathematics to training in skills that better position persons for job-seeking pursuits as well as to enhance their chances of securing on-the-job promotion.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 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 863’s trading results showed consideration of $42,443,102 from 76,212 shares traded in 20 transactions as compared to session 862’s trading results which showed consideration of $16,499,485 from 160,768 shares traded in 39 transactions.

By yesterday morning and arising out of the latest in an unending series of management/worker confrontations between the majority-owned Russian bauxite behemoth and its Guyanese workers, there had reportedly arisen a standoff between residents of the Aroaima community and armed police, the issue that spawned this turn of events being the earlier blocking and unblocking of the Berbice River in the area of Kwakwani.

Continually growing international recognition of the size and commercial significance of Guyana’s recently unearthed oil and gas resources has again been reflected, this time, in this week’s announcement days by the United States-based global energy company Hess that the country could attract the lion’s share of its US$3 billion exploration and production budget for 2020.

Chuku-Liana Adams-Scott showers all of the credit for her passion for plants on her uncle, Francis ‘Garfield’ Boston, whose own obsession has earned him the  sobriquet ‘Plant Man.’

Product Specs: Handmade Soap Coconut oil, Olive Oil, Palm Oil, Turmeric, Honey, Glycerin Retail Cost: $330 Herbal Body Lotion Extra Virgin Coconut OIl, Shea Butter, Aloe Vera, Bees Wax, Crabwood Oil, Vitamin E, Turmeric, Fragrance Retail Cost: $840 Both Products are available at: Bounty Supermarkets, Guyana Marketing Association (Robb Street) & Denyse Grant at 592-668-0639 Product D’s Body Therapy has been my go to for locally made soap for the past three years.

It appears to be entirely true that the high-profile image that drives the marketing of Women in Business is largely a function of the central role played in the emergence of the organisation by the popular local fashion personality Sonia Noel.

Dawn Skepmire believes that she is now in a place of comfort that she has been anticipating for much of her life.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 30, 2020 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 862’s trading results showed consideration of $16,499,485 from 160,768 shares traded in 39 transactions as compared to session 861’s trading results which showed consideration of $3,128,037 from 16,718 shares traded in 23 transactions.