This week’s announcement that the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is collaborating with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to help local agro-processors improve their competency in areas that are critical to the growth and development of their respective business ventures is good news and this newspaper’s first reaction to the announcement is that no effort should be spared to ensure that the optimum number of agro-processors, critically, from the farthest flung areas of the country as funding and logistics permit, secure an opportunity to benefit from the project.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday November 7, 2019
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The image of success and ‘plenty’ that so often characterizes Guyana’s agricultural sector conceals the hard work, sacrifice and frequently the frustration which, more often than we imagine, impacts their lives and livelihoods.
With high quality standards having increasingly become an essential prerequisite for keeping up with – and increasingly, fending off both local and international jousting for limited markets – the local manufacturing sector appears be cultivating an increasing awareness of the necessity to raise their game.
Success has a tendency of imposing its own pressures and so it seems with the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Farmers Market, which from all indications, has become popular with both shoppers and vendors.
With major automakers announcing new electric car models at a regular pace, there has been growing interest in recent years about the impact of electric vehicles on the overall car market, as well as global oil demand, carbon emissions, and air pollution.
Scotiabank Ltd has been named by an organization known as The Great Place to Work Institute among the top 25 list in the 2019 World’s Best Workplaces by the Great Place to Work Institute, the Trinidad Guardian reported yesterday.
Yesterday, the Department of Tourism, the Ministry of Business, the Guyana Tourism Authority and the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana launch-ed Guyana’s first ever Agro-Tourism Expo which will be staged up to November 2, 2019.
*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.
The news that the ExxonMobil will commence commercial oil production in December would have come as a surprise to many Guyanese given that, for some time now, ‘the first quarter of 2020’ had been the widely publicized timeline for the development.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 849’s trading results showed consideration of $1,027,995 from 5,652 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 847’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,305,330 from 15,295 shares traded in 12 transactions.
Expert international assessments of the quality of honey being produced in Guyana and the potential of the product for holding its own as an important money earner in the agro-processing sector more than justifies “far greater official attention and support from government,” Vice President of the Guyana Apiculture Society (GAS) Linden Stewart has told the Stabroek Business.
The need for immediate and aggressive diversification of the Berbice economy to have it make a significant mark beyond its already proven agricultural credentials has been emphasized by two senior officials of the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce following the staging of the September 27th – 30th, Fifteenth Berbice Expo and Trade Fair.
The recent public advertisement regarding the planned sale of “various scrap metal” by the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) would appear to point in the direction of some measure of success in creating an environment in which some semblance of normalcy can be restored to the local scrap metal trade.
One of the trademark services offered by the Guyana Marketing Corporation is its Farmers’ Market, an event that provides both space and shoppers for farmers, affording them the opportunity of a market for their produce.
Chief Executive Officer of the local training and consultancy firm, Clarke Productions says that his company is seeking to take its Defensive Driving programme beyond next week’s October 31 – December 1, two day programme, pointing out that the recent multi-fatality East Bank tragedy “surely underscores the importance of taking a long hard look at the way in which we use our roads.”
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 24, 2019
Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
