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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 

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 19, 2018

After the recent stories about the modest success that has been realized in our attempt to begin to substitute the country’s potato and onion imports with higher levels of local production we are now being told by the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (see story in this issue) that sufficient work has been done in terms of research into farming techniques and the varieties that are best suited to local conditions to give rise to the likelihood that locally cultivated  carrots, as well, a few years down the road, will save us further amounts of foreign exchange.

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

As evidence continues to emerge that the Government Analyst-Food & Drug Department (GAFDD) continues to face a ‘pushback’ against the execution of its mandate insofar as the effective enforcement of key provisions of the Food and Drugs Act is concerned, the Department’s Director, Marlan Cole is speaking out against what he appears to believe are determined efforts to undermine the integrity of the system.

There are signs that progress is being made towards the settlement of differences between the local Government Analyst Food and Drug Department (GAFDD) and its counterpart agency in Trinidad and Tobago, the Chemistry Food and Drugs Department, that could pave the way for a resumption of the importation into the twin-island Republic of packaged coconut water from Guyana.

 Is corporate governance is dead? Corporate Governance turned up a blind alley some 15 years ago.

It is frequently the case that some of the most impressive examples of creative female entrepreneurship unfold unobtrusively, without fuss or fanfare, leaving the energy that they invest and the rewards that they reap to speak for themselves.

Between January and September last year the National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO) issued a total of  370 permits for the importation of food crops and vegetation into Guyana.

Up until now it may well have been one of Buxton’s best-kept entrepreneurial secrets.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 12, 2018  

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

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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.

This newspaper’s most recent updates on the provisions contained in the Small Business Act for the allocation of twenty per cent of state contracts to local small businesses provided by Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin and Chief Executive Officer of the Small Business Bureau Dr.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CREDITINFO Guyana, Judy Semple-Joseph  has told Stabroek Business that the ability of the Credit Bureau to provide local business institutions with critical and reliable data on their potential customers has been a critical factor in persuading banks and other key commercial institutions to ‘sign on’ to the services which it provides.

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Deodat Indar on Wednesday used his address to the organization’s Annual General Meeting to set out the various ways in which he said the Chamber had been successful in exerting “significant influence” on public policy over the past year.

A continually increasing level of car imports into Guyana coupled with an as yet unfinished buildout of roads across coastal Guyana is opening up increasing opportunities for skilled mechanics willing to take on the challenging task of keeping vehicles on the roads and Don Hutson, who operates “Don’s Auto Repair” at 46 Friendship, East Coast Demerara is seeking to raise the bar higher in terms of reliability and professionalism in the service and repair sector.