Against the backdrop of mounting global concern over the environmental risks and other worrying health & safety loopholes in the gold mining sector, the World Gold Council, (WGC), the market development organisation for the gold industry, has released the Exposure Draft of its Responsible Gold Mining Principles that creates a new framework setting out expectations for investors and downstream users as to what constitutes responsible gold mining.
The oil and gas industry is facing strong competition in attracting science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) talent but almost half of the younger generation is interested in the industry, according to a survey released by ADNOC.
*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corportation or Ministry of Agriculture.
There currently exists here in Guyana an uncanny and unkind coincidence between the attention that agro- processing has been attracting as an entrepreneurial option, particularly at the micro and small business level and what, up until now, has been a largely futile official battle to break open the protectionist fortresses that continue to place measly limits on access by our own agro-produce to regional markets.
Long before last weekend’s Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo at Lethem had started the six hotels whose accommodation amount to approximately 150 rooms had all been taken.
Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Products Ltd Ramsay Ali on Wednesday evening told the Stabroek Business that local manufacturing is likely to continue to perform below its potential unless government moves decisively to address the taxation of fuel and by extension, the enhancement of the competitiveness of the sector.
With the multi-billion dollar fake drugs industry now having set its sights deliberately on making further inroads into the churning out of brands associated with children’s illnesses, medical experts and reputable international organizations are becoming increasingly concerned that poor countries where environmental conditions render children more vulnerable to diseases may have little if any real defence against ‘cures’ that could exacerbate rather than ease their child welfare headaches.
ExxonMobil’s announcement a week ago that it had made a new oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Yellowtail-1 well, marking the 13th discovery on the Stabroek Block, was not the only recent indication of the consolidation of its hold on the oil and gas sector in the hemisphere.
As the quality of the urban public transport service comes increasingly under the glare of the public spotlight the Stabroek Business, two weeks ago, spent two consecutive weekdays canvassing the opinions of regular users on the quality of the service being provided.
For two days last week, Starr Computers pressed its recently elaborately re-designed second floor display space now designated its Innovation Centre to introduce what the company’s Chief Executive Officer Mike Mohan describes as “technology in the age of Robotization”.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 25, 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 822’s trading results showed consideration of $7,818,749 from 83,737 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 821’s trading results which showed consideration of $6,220,138 from 19,625 shares traded in 22 transactions.
