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Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 25, 2018Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Unrelenting in their search for regional and extra-regional markets for the ever-increasing range of ago-produce being churned out in places ranging from domestic kitchens to makeshift factories, five local agro-processors and a craft producer are preparing to travel to St.

Dr. Sevanie Williams is a 29-year-old Cuban-trained Patamona woman, born and brought up at Paramakatoi.

If you mention the brand Royal Chicken in a conversation about the local poultry industry you will probably not get the kind of knee jerk response that some other brands elicit.

With street-vended foods at least equaling restaurant-prepared and home-cooked food in their popularity in Guyana and elsewhere, they have, understandably, become associated with significant health risks arising out of the sheer frequency of their consumption in circumstances where their food-safety ‘credentials’ are, for the most part, unknown.

The jury would appear to be still out on the outcomes of the September 19-22 Guyana Trade and Investment Exhibition (GuyTIE) as local companies pursue follow-ups to engagements with potential buyers who came here for the event.

As of Wednesday, Canada, not known traditionally for a liberal official policy on drugs, launched its own legal marijuana marketplace marking what a Jamaica Gleaner article calls “a profound social shift” though the article argues that what has pushed Canada in this direction is a “fervent desire to rein in an unregulated and continually growing black market for the widely popular substance and to bring it into a regulated tax system.”

Local companies are reported to be presently pursuing up to 50 business leads, which began at the recently concluded Guyana Trade and Investment Exhibition (GuyTIE).

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday October 18, 2018

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(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)   *Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

The legitimacy or otherwise of the adjusted toll rates recently announced for the Berbice Bridge aside, there are, as every rational thinking person would agree, other considerations which are at least of comparable importance.

While the recently announced ‘new rules’ setting out conditionalities for the importation of drugs into Guyana, including the stipulation that the labels be printed in English may be well-intentioned, they are likely to have very little effect unless the Government Analyst-Food & Drug Department (GAFDD) is given “both the authority and the tools” to ensure that the news rules are “rigidly enforced, an experienced local Hospital Administrator has told the Stabroek Business.

The capital’s two biggest waste disposal companies, Cevons Waste Management and Puran Brothers appear poised to take steps to press City Hall into making good on payments due to the two companies for services provided earlier this year, the debt now having reached a figure well in excess of $150 million dollars since government’s intervention last year to liquidate the more than $300 million owing to the two companies up to that time.

STEM Guyana and its partners have launched a nationwide Reading and Robotics programme in order encourage students   to   read   more,   while creating   opportunities   for   them   to   learn   about   robotics,   coding   and   Mathematics, and Chairperson of STEM Guyana Karen Abrams has said that support from the diaspora and the business community will be critical for its success. 

If you look hard enough and for all the ‘tough times’ associated with doing business in Linden there are still a number of micro and small businesses run by proprietors who simply refuse to ‘throw in the towel.’

The planned inaugural Green Guyana Expo and International Small Business Summit is being touted as a demonstration of Guyana’s plan to promote economic diversification using oil revenues.