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Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday November 09, 2017              Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Coconut grove
Coconut grove

Jamaica aiming to cash in on coconut craze

Mindful of the heavy and mounting expenditure required to meet the continually growing demand for imported coconut products, Jamaica is embarking on an initiative aimed at tripling the existing 40,000 acres of land under coconut cultivation over the next ten years.

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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 turning of the sod on the site for the construction of the new Food and Drug Analyst Department complex

Completion of $130m Food and Drugs Complex will provide safety assurances – Cole

This week’s ceremonial turning of the sod preparatory to the construction of a complex in which to house the Government Analyst-Food & Drugs Department (GAFDD) would appear to signal the beginning of the end of the marginalization of a key state agency which has spent just a few years short of a decade performing critical functions utilizing makeshift accommodation on the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus.

At the Uncapped agro-processing event last Friday

GMSA still sees Amaila as `most feasible” power option…

Just over a month after Minister of State Joseph Harmon had declared that the APNU+AFC administration had set aside the 165 MV Amalia Falls Hydropower Project, the private sector appears to have not yet written off the controversial power supply option as a vehicle for accelerating the growth of the country’s manufacturing sector.

US Ambassador Holloway passing through the stalls in the Sophia Auditorium

Private/public sector organisers standing behind Uncapped model

As early as Saturday evening, long before the scheduled three-night Uncapped event at the National Exhibition Site, Sophia, was over, officials of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) were announcing that four more such events, at Providence, Port Mourant, and two other venues including one in Region Three, would be held in 2018.

City Hall workers and vendors engaging prior to the start of the road repair works on Bourda street

Bourda St vending undergoing transformation

Vendors trading from stalls in Bourda Street will have to give up their trading positions for around two weeks, beginning immediately, to allow for repairs to the roadway which has deteriorated continually over the years.

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