If you want to get a compelling sense of the wide variety of fruit cultivated on farms across Guyana you can do worse to travel to Roy Boodhoo’s 131-acre farm aback of Parika at Hubu, on the East Bank of the Essequibo river.
There is a new store situated at 68 Parika Highway, East Bank Essequibo, which is attracting increasing public attention.
One of the leading global players in the buying and selling of precious metals and refining service providers, the Canadian firm KITCO Metals Inc.
*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.
Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 10, 2019
There was a hollow ring to this week’s warning from the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GAFDD) regarding the circulation of yet another fake drug, apparently an imitation of Daflon, which the Department says, is used for treating patients suffering from “chronic venous insufficiency” (CVI) and other ailments.
Stock market updates
For all its high profile and standout status in the global oil and gas industry, ExxonMobil, which is currently focused on kicking off a major oil recovery exercise offshore Guyana, has had to face its own ‘demons’ in 2018, according to a report late in December by World Oil, the monthly oil and gas publication published by Gulf Energy Information.
Following assurances by the Small Business Bureau’s (SBB) Chief Executive Officer, Dr Lowell Porter that the 20 per cent provision of contracts valued up to $30 million for small businesses would come on stream this month, a source in the Ministry of Business has told Stabroek Business that the Bureau is “ready to go” with implementation.
The contents of communication expected to be handed over to Cevons Waste Mana-gement and Puran Brothers by the Georgetown City Council providing details of the garbage collection arrangements between the two service providers and the Council could trigger a radical shift in the existing relationships according to information reaching the Stabroek Business.
During 2018 the Stabroek Business paid a great deal of attention to two issues that are likely to have an important bearing on employment generation and export earnings in the current year.
What is being regarded globally as a breakthrough period for the coconut industry linked to skyrocketing demand for coconut water, oil and other products is being regarded as an opportunity for the region which it cannot afford to pass up.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 3,Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
The new Guyana Marketing Corportation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 806’s trading results showed consideration of $1,037,500 from 13,500 shares traded in 3 transactions as compared to session 805’s trading results which showed consideration of $1,568,275 from 20,125 shares traded in 7 transactions.
Part of the discourse on the subject of the implications of oil and the earnings to be derived therefrom for the future shape of the Guyana economy has had to do with the impact on the long-term future of those other sectors that have kept the country going until now and whether they will retain their sustainability once the various options associated with an ‘oil economy’ kick in fully.
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