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

  GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 760’s trading results showed consideration of $2,535,754 from 35,463 shares traded in 15 transactions as compared to session 759’s trading results which showed consideration of $9,429,354 from 38,884 shares traded in 9 transactions.

GASCI MARKET JOURNALGASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 759’s trading results showed consideration of $9,429,354 from 38,884 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 758’s trading results which showed consideration of $373,500 from 5,950 shares traded in 5 transactions.

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(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published 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 New Guyana Marketing Corporation 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 757’s trading results showed consideration of $3,921,300 from 29,144 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 756’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,805,400 from 22,025 shares traded in 4 transactions.

A scheduled visit here by a Brazilian trade and investment delegation originally due to take place this month as a follow-up to one to Brazil by a team of Guyanese state officials last May has been postponed until mid-February, Stabroek Business has been informed.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has weighed in on the controversy arising out of the refusal by the authorities in Trinidad and Tobago to allow a consignment of the Rooster brand of coconut water bottled in Guyana to be sold in the twin-island Republic on the grounds that it does not satisfy the safety and health standards of that country.

Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways Inc. Gerry Gouveia has described as “a major potential breakthrough for the tourism sector the announcement by the Guyana Tourism Authority that government is now moving definitively to effect an amendment to the country’s Marriage Act that would allow for a reduction of the residency requirement from fifteendays to two days for non-nationals wishing to marry in Guyana.

By Fitzroy Fletcher The Caribbean Agri-Business Association (CABA) has been observing, with more than a little passing interest, the unfolding events of the Guyana sugar industry.

Roraima Airways Chief Executive Officer Captain Gerry Gouveia says that the “legitimate concern” over the recent delay in returning home experienced by a number of Cubans on account of mechanical defects to the Air Aruba aircraft should not be allowed to overshadow the significance of the service to promoting “friendships and business ties” between Cuba and Guyana.   

Work towards the creation of a Secured Transaction Regime in Guyana is being accelerated through a collaborative arrangement between the Government of Guyana and the Inter-American Development Bank.

A letter written to the Managing Director of the majority Russian-owned    Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

Information released by the Small Business Bureau (SBB) last week indicates that during last year the agency facilitated a total of fifty loans to clients   valued at $269.7 million and up to November 30, 49 of those loans valued at $221.8 million were disbursed.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published 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.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 18, 2018

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 756’s trading results showed consideration of $2,805,400 from 22,025 shares traded in 4 transactions as compared to session 755’s trading results which showed consideration of $16,188,733 from 222,583 shares traded in 15 transactions.