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Eighteen local companies drawn from various sectors are expected to be represented at the October 9th – 10th Florida International Trade Conference and Expo (FITCE) in Florida.

With the focus on the realisation of increased production and profitability in selected agricultural sub-sectors, the John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer to Farmer Programme, is currently harnessing technical assistance from United States volunteers to support farmers, farm groups, agribusiness and agriculture sector institutions in Guyana with the goal of “promoting sustainable improvements in food security and agricultural processing,” according to information released by the Farmer To Farmer coordinating group in Guyana.

By Karen Abrams Executive Director STEMGuyana A Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) curriculum is one vehicle through which children can benefit from a vision of life beyond deprivation and an absence of opportunity. 

On October 9th and 10th, a contingent of Guyanese creative people drawn mostly from the agro processing, dress design and craft industries will benefit from a key opportunity to display their talents and their products to a global audience and a potentially lucrative market at the Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo in Fort Lauderdale.

The World Economic Forum has identified twelve transformative agricultural technology areas with the potential to generate positive impacts along food value chains.

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In his conversations with the Stabroek Business on plans for Guyana’s participation in the October 9th – 10th Florida International Trade Conference and Expo, President of the Guyana-America Chamber of Commerce (GACC) Wesley Kirton went to considerable lengths to emphasize the efforts that the Chamber had made to ensure adequate participation at the event by local small businesses including arrangements which the GACC had made to ensure that the participation of those small businesses benefitted from some measure of subsidy.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 26, 2019Kitco 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 844’s trading results showed consideration of $27,807,649 from 162,767 shares traded in 33 transactions as compared to session 843’s trading results which showed consideration of $13,363,415 from 164,423 shares traded in 15 transactions.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a public statement that local officials are now engaging their counterparts from the twin-island Republic on finding ways of correcting what is widely believed by the local business community to be a protectionist policy that continues to choke off Guyanese imports into that country.

A week after citing what he said was an anti-union clause in the employment agreement of the company, TOTALTEC Oilfield Services Guyana Inc, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has told the Stabroek Business that the trade union umbrella body will be seeking to express “more detailed sentiments on the matter of the relationship between local employees and foreign employers connected to the oil and gas sector.”

Thirty-five small business owners from Region Four communities including Friendship, Diamond, Industry, Golden Grove, Sophia and Kuru Kuru on Wednesday received grants from the Small Business Bureau (SBB) of $200,000 each to further their entrepreneurial ambitions.

At last Wednesday’s ceremony at the offices of the Small Business Bureau (SBB) to mark the handing over of grants of $200,000 each to thirty-five small business owners, 24 year-old Carl Ajeday appeared suitably pleased.

The exclusion of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) from the group of agencies and individuals comprising the Small Business Council will be formally raised at the appropriate forum since the GMSA considers the Council to be an important forum through which to support small businesses in Guyana, GMSA President Clinton Williams has told the Stabroek Business.

As this piece is being written local business support organizations are busy probing the local content opportunities that repose in what is now the significant movement of foreign companies to Guyana in support of the expanding range of services required in the execution of the country’s long-term oil and gas recovery programme.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 19, 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.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 843’s trading results showed consideration of $13,363,415 from 164,423 shares traded in 15 transactions as compared to session 842’s trading results which showed consideration of $843,064 from 7,162 shares traded in 10 transactions.