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Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 11, 2019Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Invariably, when we conceptualize what one might call a ‘tourist package’ that Guyana can offer to visitors the options afforded by the beauty and adventure that can be derived from our far-flung interior locations are always ‘front and centre’ in that vision.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 820’s trading results showed consideration of $24,231,237 from 290,124 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session 819’s trading results which showed consideration of $3,794,381 from 43,874 shares traded in 15 transactions.

The 30% reduction in after-tax profit reflected in the recently released Sterling Products 2018 Annual Report and which the company says was due overwhelmingly to inexorably climbing fuel-related operating costs do not gainsay the numerous indicators pointing to last year having been yet another year in which Sterling Products returned outstanding production as well as sales performances at the local and international levels, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Ramsay Ali has told the Stabroek Business. 

Time was when Linden was widely perceived as a ‘spoilt’ township, a community pampered on the luxury of a bauxite industry from which it derived paid employment and sundry other attendant privileges including ridiculously subsidized electricity and sundry other perks and privileges most of which were associated with the presence of a world-renowned bauxite mining company. 

(Trinidad Guardian) A to­tal of 120,055 Cari­com na­tion­als were al­lowed en­try to T&T in 2018—but bar­bers beau­ti­cians, se­cu­ri­ty guards and agri­cul­tur­al work­ers whom re­gion­al lead­ers re­cent­ly pro­posed for re­gion­al free move­ment, can’t get this yet since it isn’t fi­nalised.

As the national focus continues to shift inexorably from the ‘feel-good’ sensation associated with Guyana becoming an oil-producing nation to some of the more sobering realities of the risks that attend oil recovery, discourse on the country’s oil and gas sector is drifting in the direction of what could go wrong, environmentally that is, and what the consequences might be for the country’s environmental profile.

Senior executive member of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA), Ramsay Ali has described Sunday’s UNCAPPED IV event staged at the Providence Stadium as “very successful,” asserting that the achievement was a manifestation of one of the accomplishments of the ongoing public/private sector discourses that have been ensuing for some time.

After Sterling Products (SPL) had launched its packaged Plantain Fries at the April 2018 UNCAPPED event at the Sophia Auditorium it had – or at least so it seemed – appeared that this would be the latest really profound statement for the local agro-processing industry.

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On the surface, at least, it is difficult to find fault with events like last Sunday’s UNCAPPED 1V at the Providence Stadium.

Widely regarded as the most high-profile local effort in recent years to popularise locally manufactured products, primarily agro-produce, fresh greens and vegetables, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and craft, the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association’s (GMSA) UNCAPPED Marketplace will make its third appearance in three successive years on Sunday March 31 at the National Stadium, Providence.

With access to financing continuing to challenge the sustainability of local micro and small enterprises and the emergence of new ones, the Small Business Bureau (SBB) earlier this week disclosed that it is preparing to make available thirty grants collectively valued at $15 million to such enterprises under its second quarter, 2019 grant allocation, with each grant averaging $500,000 each.

STEM Guyana’s sustained expansion of its services across Guyana aimed at introducing a strong science and technology “curriculum” in both coastal and hinterland communities received a boost through recent engagements from the Upper Corentyne Technical Onstitute, the Tain Campus of the University of Guyana, Tagore Memorial Secondary School and the Non-Governmental Organization FACT 2.