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GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 855’s trading results showed consideration of $21,163,368 from 229,196 shares traded in 29 transactions as compared to session 854’s trading results which showed consideration of $61,252,691 from 329,662 shares traded in 12 transactions.

Local fruit farmers who may be considering shifting to alternative business pursuits may wish to think again on the basis of continually emerging evidence that whatever the seemingly viable options that may exist, agriculture continues to hold its own, globally, as a sound investment option and a major money-earner.

Setting aside the customary ‘one off’ encounters between buyers and sellers designed to facilitate product-promotion and, more importantly, the rare but valued market for small businesses in several sectors, this weekend’s UNCAPPED event billed for the National Stadium at Providence, will provide an opportunity for innovative but still insufficiently embraced entrepreneurial enterprises to encounter representatives of the banking sector in the hope of cutting through the thicket of bureaucracy that continues to limit access for small businesses to financing for growth and expansion.

As part of an initiative aimed at responding to what the company sees as the need for Guyana to accelerate access to technology-driven tools that will lend critical support to its development direction, STARR Computers Chief Executive Officer Michael Mohan has told Stabroek Business that the company has signed an Agreement with the Japanese company, Seiko Epson Corporation (EPSON) under which the local technology distributor is now an Authorized Service Center for Epson products marketed here.

As part of its pursuit of raising quality standards in the local agro processing sector, the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) has been both initiating and supporting sensitization and training for agro processors aimed at upgrading production standards and supporting the readying of products for the market.

With several local business houses already preoccupied with better positioning themselves to take advantage of the anticipated transformational changes in the Guyana economy, Floor It Guyana, a subsidiary of the privately-owned Cummings Wood Products (CWP), is moving to consolidate market awareness of its presence and of the products that it has to offer by creating a new Georgetown showroom on North Road, between Camp and Wellington streets.

In the fullness of time, when the Guyanese society as a whole begins to pay greater attention than it does at this time to the energy that goes into women-run small businesses, they are likely to come to a significantly enhanced appreciation of the effort that is invested in first, setting up, and afterwards, sustaining these enterprises.

Backed by a retinue of public and private sector organisations including the Department of Youth, the Ministry of Education, the Office of the First Lady, the National Library, the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company, ExxonMobil, Tullow Oil and a significant diaspora group, the local organisation, STEMGuyana says that its Sunday December 15 Annual Robotics Exhibition at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre should be seen as part of the process in the journey in pursuit of its mission to prepare Guyana’s young people to be the country’s next generation of innovators and leaders.

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 November 21,, 2019 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 854’s trading results showed consideration of $61,252,691 from 329,662 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 853’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,149,935 from 16,588 shares traded in 12 transactions.

Credit must go to both the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) and the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) for what has now become their successive ‘offerings’ of the UncappeD and Farmers Market Day events, both of which are essentially product-promotion events with an eye to providing markets, albeit limited ones, for our farmers and our agro-processors.

Last Friday, with most of the business community’s attention turned in the direction of the Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit & Exhibition (GIPEX) at the Marriott Hotel, which was being closely monitored both locally and externally, a decidedly more modest gathering of local small businesses had defied the brisk early morning downpour to occupy tents along the westernmost block on Regent Street, displaying locally-made products including jams and jellies, cooking sauces, cosmetics, spices, wines, jewellery, clothing and footwear.

Sandra Craig has good reason to be pleased about her investment in travelling to the United States to participate in the October 9-10 Florida International Trade Conference and Expo (FITCE) in Fort Lauderdale.

Time was when Bartica appeared to have satisfied itself with being known simply as the ‘Gateway to the Interior’.

During our recent coverage of a product display staged at the Pegasus Hotel through a collaborative effort between the Sonia Noel Foundation for the Creative Arts and the Women’s Association for Sustainable Development we met and spoke with a number of women who are aggressively seeking to turn their creative passions into entrepreneurial pursuits.

With countries across the world increasingly embracing or at least diligently probing the medical options afforded by marijuana, the tiny CARICOM island group of St.

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