Business

More than 54% of the world’s population lives in urban areas. 

Local Scotiabank account holders have begun receiving individual notification of the bank’s imminent winding down of its operations in Guyana and the now actualisation of the sale of its local banking operations to the Trinidad and Tobago-based Republic Financial Holdings Ltd (RFHL).

By Donald Sinclair The proposition that the city of Georgetown should see itself as a tourism destination in its own right may strike some as controversial, even untenable.

China’s role as a major player in the oil and gas industry continues to be underscored by the huge impact which its local companies continue to make in the sector globally.

(Trinidad Guardian) The north­east re­gion of Trinidad has the po­ten­tial to be­come a gas and oil in­dus­try sim­i­lar to Point Ga­le­o­ta and Guayagua­yare which can pro­vide a bet­ter qual­i­ty of life for cit­i­zens who live be­low the eco­nom­ic pyra­mid.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A firm hired by the U.S. Treasury Department is auditing Russian aluminium giant Rusal to check whether it is complying with the terms of a deal under which Washington agreed to lift sanctions on the company, Rusal said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has been listed in the Top 25 Best Destinations in the World for 2019 on renowned travel website TripAdvisor. 

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Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday March 28, 2019Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

This Sunday’s UNCAPPED Marketplace event, the fourth of its kind over the past two years is a modest but important tribute to public/private sector collaboration in an effort to shine a spotlight on the significant growth of the agro-processing sector.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 818’s trading results showed consideration of $2,055,765 from 21,703 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 817’s trading results which showed consideration of $6,848,357 from 82,991 shares traded in 17 transactions.

An ambitious multi-million dollar renewable energy-based industrial enterprise aimed at producing a range of products and services that will target both local and overseas markets is in the process of being rolled out under the leadership of a Linden-born female Industrial Engineer.

Chastened by the controversy that has dogged the local scrap metal industry for several years, not least the vandalising of costly metal-based infrastructure owned and operated by local utility companies, the Ministry of Business has now re-opened the trade under more restrictive conditions.

If it is bound to take some time – perhaps several years – for Guyana to arrive at the avocado production levels long reached by many of her counterpart countries in the hemisphere, the country’s agricultural sector could do much worse than aggressively probe the prospects for the significant expansion of the fruit’s cultivation and export in the period ahead.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 817’s trading results showed consideration of $6,848,357 from 82,991 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 816’s trading results which showed consideration of $33,041,257 from 191,293 shares traded in 23 transactions.

By Berry Dann, Julianna Dietz, and Sarah Ward On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez had just entered the frigid waters of Alaska’s Prince William Sound, when the tanker, freshly filled with crude oil, crashed into Bligh Reef, wrecking its hull on impact.

EDDY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO,  (Reuters) – In New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert, Exxon Mobil Corp is building a massive shale oil project that its executives boast will allow it to ride out the industry’s notorious boom-and-bust cycles.

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Deodat Indar on Monday used his wide-ranging address at the 129th Annual General Meeting of one of the country’s key Business Support Organisations to underscore the central role he said the Chamber has played in helping to ready the country for what could be the most significant developmental initiative in its history – the management of the anticipated huge returns from the oil and gas industry.