GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 750’s trading results showed consideration of $166,994,000 from 4,550,110 shares traded in 5 transactions as compared to session 749’s trading results which showed consideration of $125,617,908 from 3,516,258 shares traded in 10 transactions.
The roles of the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) and the Small Business Bureau (SBB), two state agencies that have previously come under critical performance-related scrutiny have been highlighted in Finance Minister Winston Jordan’s 2018 budget presentation for their respective roles in investment facilitation and enabling the growth of small and micro enterprises.
The customary private sector responses to government annual budget proposals have again reflected a mix of praise and criticism with the latter, in the instances of both the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) taking precedence over the former.
As is one of our more important editorial roles, the Stabroek Business has continually provided a measure of exposure for emerging businesses of various types that are still to meet the stage where they can afford to adequately market their ventures.
Much of the evidence of the steady growth of Guyana’s manufacturing sector, particularly its agro-processing sector, is to be found on the display shelves of the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Guyana Shop at the corner of Robb and Alexander streets.
By Karen Abrams
In most developing economies, fostering innovation depends on developing a culture of creativity, curiosity, grit and problem solving among citizens, but it also depends heavily on the presence of solid ICT infrastructure upon which enterprising entrepreneurs and innovators can then build to provide cost effective, competitive goods, services and solutions to the local, regional global marketplace.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday November 30, 2017Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)
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Amidst the heralding of developments in an industry awakened by an invigorating and informative Festival last year October, the real groundwork required for a solid foundation for the coconut industry is proceeding with less fanfare.
The new multi-million dollar Mattai Food Market officially opened a week ago today provides, perhaps above everything else, encouraging signs of a measure of investor confidence in the country’s economy at a time when the soundings from local Business Support Organizations (BSO’s) are by no means excitedly upbeat.
Managing Director of the local consulting company CERULEAN, Lindel Danzie-Black has told the Stabroek Business that business relations between Guyana and China must, at the earliest possible time, begin to proceed on a paradigm shift that banishes the notion that those relations are only sustainable on the basis of Guyana’s role as an importer from the global manufacturing giant.
A year into owning and operating what is almost certainly the first local company to manufacture such a broad range of detergents and sanitizers, Melissa Younge readily admits that her efforts to secure significant market recognition against a product base long dominated by better-known foreign brands has been no proverbial ‘walk in the park.’
Come December 1, Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited celebrates the 180th Anniversary of its operating presence in Guyana and a release from the Bank issued earlier this week highlighted the high points of its operations here, ranging from its humble start in 1836 with the founding of the British Guiana Bank in November of that year, to its contemporary significant operations under the name Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited from twelve locations across Guyana in Berbice, Essequibo, East Bank Demerara, East Coast Demerara, West Coast Demerara, Georgetown, Linden and Lethem as well as what the management says are “plans for further expansion, providing a range of financial services for every stage and phase of life.”
(Trinidad Guardian) Bring your platform blueprints and come.
That’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley’s invitation to BP, seeking to have the company build its Cassia oil drilling platform in La Brea.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados was one of the destinations taking centre stage at Sandals Resorts International Overdrive Unveiling Tour which travelled to over 21 cities in North America, the most recent of which were Toronto and Montreal, reaching a combined audience of nearly 750 Canadian travel agents.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 748’s trading results showed consideration of $1,305,450 from 2,901 shares traded in 5 transactions as compared to session 747’s trading results which showed consideration of $29,974,843 from 820,991 shares traded in 11 transactions.