Business

Our editorial focus on the nexus between technology and development in this week’s issue was deliberate.

On Saturday the Richmonds had arrived at D’Urban Park from Jacklow in the Pomeroon River hopeful that the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s (GMC) Farmers’ Market might point the way to a definitive upward climb in their farming fortunes.

Locally organised Farmers’ Markets are yet to make the kind of mark that they seek to make in terms of providing a recurring assembly of farmers or their representatives selling the food that they produce directly to consumers and in effect enabling the creation of close and often lasting bonds of mutual benefit amongst farmers, shoppers and communities.

By Karen Abrams, MBA By the year 2050, the population of the world will increase to 9.7 billion.

A few weeks ago the Stabroek Business reported on an announcement made by Professor Stefan Gift, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies, regarding what he said was the intention of the region’s foremost institution of higher education to push a Caribbean-wide entrepreneurial curriculum with a view to positioning graduates to pursue options to paid employment by establishing businesses of their own.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 828’s trading results showed consideration of $17,725,123 from 157,626 shares traded in 19 transactions as compared to session 827’s trading results which showed consideration of $21,545,797 from 183,455 shares traded in 31 transactions.

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 June 6, 2019Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Challenging the assertion by the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) in the headline of the Stabroek News story of Sunday May 25th that “unknown” forces were smuggling gold out of Guyana, a source close to the industry told Stabroek Business earlier this week that “nothing could be further from the truth.”

Growing global demands, particularly in developed countries, for a greater mindfulness of food safety concerns in their importation policies continue to bring the international food processing industry, particularly in developing countries, under pressure to conform or else, to forfeit lucrative markets, according to a recent report published under the name of the international Pest Control Company RENTOKIL.

Against the backdrop of continually mounting region-wide concern over the difficulties being encountered by the Carib-bean in reducing expenditure of food imports, yet another high profile forum has drawn attention to the urgent need for countries in the region, both individually and collectively, to take resolute action to reduce food imports.

With raising the profile of Guyana’s interior regions being one of the focal points of the country’s broader initiative to popularize the industry, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) has been engaged in enhancing the preparedness of some of those communities to raise tourism-friendliness standards.

At Victoria, the East Coast Highway veers off in two directions, into the villages of Cove and John and Victoria, then continues its journey eastward.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 30, 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.

It would do both the health sector as a whole and the food safety authorities, specifically, a power of good, if they pay more focussed attention to the surfeit of information being disseminated globally on food safety.