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Based on what it says is ‘careful review and evaluation” the Jamaica Gleaner on Monday launched a monthly publication, Small Business Today, which, it says, underscores the company’s commitment “to erase the gap in rural coverage by reaching out to communities across the island to tell of their triumphs and unveil their challenges in search of solutions.”

Representatives of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services  Association (GMSA) on Monday August 26th met with Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman in what has now become a protracted exchange aimed at resolving what the GMSA says are a number of matters concerning  the country’s forestry and wood processing sectors.

*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 841’s trading results showed consideration of $10,003,675 from 104,587 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 840’s trading results which showed consideration of $1,937,831 from 17,517 shares traded in 21 transactions.

After we had spoken with Shon Adams for less than ten minutes we discerned that his interest in the agro- processing sector extended way beyond his own entrepreneurial pursuits as Managing Director of Fresh Press Enterprises, a Granville Park, Beterverwagting, fruit juice factory.

Almost six years after signing on to the Minamata Convention on Mercury in October 2013, deliberations at a policy forum held to mark mining week earlier this week have described the current status of mercury use in the recovery of gold here as a “free-for-all” that “falls some way short of the robust commitment to eliminate mercury within a realistic time-frame.”

Currently in the throes of a ‘pitch’ for both public and private sector financial support to field teams for forthcoming Robotics competitions in Dubai and South Korea, respectively, the organisation STEMGuyana, will be keeping an eye on the help that the British oil company, Tullow Oil, has been extending to the furtherance of science and mathematics education in Ghana by hosting that country’s first ever STEM Share Fair.

The news that two hundred and fifty minibus drivers and conductors from five coastal routes (Regions 3,4,5,6 and 7) “have recently benefitted from training in the areas of hospitality, first aid, tyre & fire safety, life & vehicle insurance, and defensive driving” would have come as a surprise to sizeable sections of the commuting population, though any initiative that seeks to retrieve this sector from the dire state in which it finds itself is welcome.

While Jamaica, one of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) leading tourism destinations, has frequently made international headlines as a place where tourists are vulnerable to harassment and even sexual assault by hotel staff, a Jamaica Gleaner story earlier this week is reporting that these days, it is staff members who are increasingly reporting instances of sexual harassment by guests, at some of the country’s “top hotels”. 

Trade Unions in Guyana will only win back the considerable support of the workers that they have lost over the years by undertaking a frank and honest assessment of the role of the leadership of the movement that arrives at an understanding that leadership is about “giving service [and] not being in control,” according to General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis.

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Gold Prices for the three period ending Thursday August 29,2019Kitco 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 840’s trading results showed consideration of $1,937,831 from 17,517 shares traded in 21 transactions as compared to session 839’s trading results which showed consideration of $6,079,950 from 23,100 shares traded in 16 transactions.

Local regulatory and enforcement bodies must fashion “a collective strategy” to ensure that the country’s environmental and workplace safety laws are efficiently and effectively enforced ahead of the anticipated arrival here of greater numbers of foreign investors seeking to do business with the country in areas related to the country’s emerging oil and gas sector, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis has told the Stabroek Business.

Almost thirty years ago he turned the lights out on what he says was a professionally rewarding job as a Financial Analyst with Citi Bank in New York to build, over time, what, arguably, is the country’s most successful information technology business enterprises, Starr Computers.

With what the institution’s  Chief Executive Officer James Bovell says is an “eye to the country’s  evolving skills needs,” the Brickdam-based The Business School (TBS) has unveiled a suite of courses that seeks, it says, to respond to current and emerging workplace requirements in both the public and private sectors.

A collaborative initiative between the West Indies Rum & Spirits Association (WIRSPA) and the Open University Campus of the University of the West Indies has realized the signing of a Memorandum of Under-standing (MoU) that will provide a framework for cooperation between the rum industry in the Caribbean and the University arising out of which will come, in the first instance an online certification in rum and spirits production which will be offered to members of the regional rum and spirits industry and internationally “in several languages, WIRSPA has said.