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The makings of a fully-fledged Department of Energy are beginning to emerge as Guyana moves closer to ‘first oil’ officially scheduled to materialise in 2020.

Dianna Dolphin-Trotman has had the good fortune of being able to transform a childhood hobby into an enterprise that allows her to continue to immerse herself in something that she loves whilst earning from it.

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Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday March 21, 20193Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In a deal said to be worth $4 billion, the owners of Jamaica Energy Partners (JEP) have snapped up rival energy outfit Jamaica Private Power Company (JPPC) giving the American parent control over 250 megawatts of domestic rated capacity.

It has always been a policy position of the Government of Guyana that Guyanese residing in the diaspora should be encouraged to return home eventually, to resettle, to invest or both.

Even as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) continues to play a high-profile role in the creation of robust energy governance structures for Guyana ahead of the start of the country’s oil recovery programme and the recovery of returns therefrom, the Bank’s president, Luis Alberto Moreno, has signalled the institution’s satisfaction with the stewardship of the coalition administration in its pursuit of the realisation of those structures.

Page one comment The visible manifestations of the ensuing ruckus between the Russian managers running the show at the operations of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

Starr, Lenova talking computers for the oil and gas sector: Focus on oil and gas: Starr Computers is currently hosting a visit to Guyana by Lenovo Accountant Executive Mike Thorburn during which time the Lenovo official has been engaging the Brickdam-based company  on further collaborative possibilities between the two entities.

The role that robots can play in opening up new avenues in the field of education – perhaps in a manner similar to that played by digital technology a few years ago – stands, arguably, on the threshold of the agenda for debate and discussion as part of the wider discourse of curriculum change and education development in Guyana.

A collaborative initiative involving STEM Guyana and a number of state agencies will deliver the country’s first ever National Robotics Competition, Stabroek Business has been informed.

Small agro-processing businesses in Guyana have derived, by and large, out of necessity, that is to say that they have emerged out of the need to either secure substantive employment or else, to serve as subsidies for individuals and/or families whose earned incomes are inadequate to meet their needs.

The growing prominence of women in various facets of national life, not least in public and private sector management and leadership roles in social and charitable organisations is once again being publicly recognised, this time by two leading local companies, The Nico Consulting, Inc.

Enhanced high-level discourse between senior officials of government and officials of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) aimed at resolving the challenges confronting the country’s manufacturing sector has still left the sector with a slew of unresolved issues which continue to stymie its potential and inhibit its growth, Immediate Past President of the Association Shyam Nokta told the its Annual General Meeting on Thursday February 28th at the conclusion of the final year of his two-year term at the helm of the organization.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday March 14, 2019Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

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In the fullness of time the significance of last Monday’s meeting between President David Granger and the President of the Inter-American Development Bank, Luis Alberto Moreno, could go way beyond the time that the two spent together at State House and the relatively brief summary of the engagement released immediately thereafter.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 816’s trading results showed consideration of $33,041,257 from 191,293 shares traded in 23 transactions as compared to session 815’s trading results which showed consideration of $29,862,762 from 321,639 shares traded in 25 transactions.