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Trade facilitation plays a vital role in economic growth and development and impacts in a measurable way on the ease of doing business in various countries.

At fifty-three, work and family having long been at the very centre of his existence, Lancelot McPherson says that the time is long overdue for a frank, open and decidedly public conversation on the local craft industry if it is ever to come even remotely close to fulfilling its potential as much as a viable sector of the country’s economy as well as a vehicle for satisfying both the economic and the creative cravings of the nation’s huge army of largely talented craftspeople.

Thirty-two-year-old Princess Cosbert’s story of how, about two years ago, she came to establish an enterprise that is beginning to make its name as a manufacturer of what is commonly referred to in Guyana as ‘bush’ tea (teas brewed from an assortment of leaves, vines, barks, berries and flowers that grow randomly in various parts of the country) is not one that you are likely to forget easily.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 10, 2018Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 772’s trading results showed consideration of $33,064,349 from 252,766 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 771’s trading results which showed consideration of $4,098,604 from 69,362 shares traded in 10 transactions.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation andpublished by Stabroek Business as a public service) The New Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

The announcement last week that the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) had intercepted a boat containing cargo (foreign chicken and mosquito coils) seemingly intended for illegal placement on the local market, makes two points; first that the GRA, through its enforcement mechanisms, now appears more determined to thwart customs evasion by smugglers and to improve on the collection of such revenues as accrue to the state.

Last Sunday’s UncappeD Marketplace event marked another potentially key phase in the protracted search for a place of prominence in the country’s economic ‘sun’ for the agro processing sector.

The role of a Director in governance is very important as organisations are led from the top.

Yonette McPherson typifies the dogged determination of the thousands of Guyanese comprising the agro-processing community, whose pursuits are shaped, mostly, by a necessity to make a living that is both honest and adequate.

By Paul Randall I was leaving Guyana a few days ago, when I read a copy of the Guybiz Inc.

It was Guyana’s abundant supply of a range of tropical fruit and their value-added potential that largely influenced the decision by vintner, Warren Douglas to part company with the United States and return home.

At least thrice monthly, the local company, Biso Investments exports shipments of fresh fruit and vegetables, including pineapple, watermelon, ground provision, and pumpkin to Barbados under an arrangement with two supermarkets on the CARICOM island.

Guyana is by no means the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country that is gearing itself to cash in on the current high global demand for coconuts.

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As a service to Guyana’s rice industry the Stabroek Business has agreed to publish,weekly, beginning with this issue, prices paid to farmers supplying paddy to Mills in the various regions of Guyana

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 03, 2018

With high unemployment – particularly in the non-coastal areas of Guyana being one of the national challenges which we have been unable to sufficiently roll back, news of the planned commencement of operations of Guyana Manganese In.