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GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session

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-cites plethora of weaknesses in aviation regime The decision by the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority to effect a temporary suspension of interior shuttles following three recent aircraft accidents, the first and the last of which took the lives of the pilots, has elicited a strong response from one of the country’s most experienced pilots who is advocating that an improved safety regime in the domestic aviation sector depends largely on upgrading facilities and raising standards.

As the requirements of domestic food security and the need to maximize opportunities to consolidate international market share place increasing demands on Guyana’s agricultural sector, the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) is focusing increasing attention on the development and transfer of appropriate technologies ”to promote balanced, diversified and sustained agricultural production” and doing more to promote hinterland agricultural development, according to the Institute’s 2016 Annual Report.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits jumped to a more than two-year high last week amid a surge in applications in hurricane-ravaged Texas, but the underlying trend remained consistent with a strong labor market.

On Wednesday September 6th, the Ministry of Natural Resources issued a media release on what it says was the first in a planned series of Stakeholder Engagements on the draft Local Content Policy Framework for the country’s oil and gas sector.

Guyana’s informal economy ranks second in the English-speaking Caribbean according to a recent study.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 737’s trading results showed

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VINA DEL MAR, Chile,  (Reuters) – Chile expects to close an energy swap deal with Argentina in the days ahead, Chilean Energy Minister Andres Rebolledo said in an interview on Thursday.

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The fortunes of the art and craft contingent at the August 17th – 27th Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) in Barbados may not have been much more than modest but renowned Guyanese Potter, Nicholas Young believes that in circumstances where learning has been an incremental experience for Guyanese creative artists some positives would have been taken away from this year’s experience.

Coming from one of the more high-profile executives of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) there was an uncharacteristic frankness to Mr.

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Just over a week after Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman had ‘talked up’ gold-mining syndicates as a potential economic breakthrough for “hundreds of Guyanese men and women,” representatives of nine of the fifteen syndicates already created are demanding a meeting with President David Granger in an effort to break what they say has been a frustrating logjam relating to the distribution of land to syndicates.

The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) is reporting an increasing volume of work at both the farm and laboratory levels with a view to maximizing local cassava production and better positioning the versatile root crop for increased availability as a food staple, according to the Institute’s 2016 Annual Report.

Without venturing too deeply into what is known in Guyana as the ‘nitty gritty’ of what appears to be a surge of genuine anger by gold miners comprising the so-called gold mining syndicates, it is difficult to ignore what appears to be the dramatic – and, hopefully, temporary – turnaround in the fortunes of an initiative which, just a few months ago was being hailed as one of the more forward-looking implemented by the APNU-AFC administration in its quest to turn around the economic fortunes of ordinary Guyanese.

There is, it seems, no end to the entrepreneurial opportunities that can emerge from tinkering with creative possibilities that repose in the range of fruit grown in Guyana…if you are prepared to make the effort, that is, and Diana Prowell who resides at 64 Self Help, Amelia’s Ward, Linden believes she could be on to something.

Whether the public interest that had been generated by last Friday’s Agro–Processors Street Fair facilitated by the Guyana Marketing Corporation was transformed into a marketing windfall for the vendors whose products were put on display is difficult to say though the available evidence would appear to suggest that the local agro-processing sector still has a hard road to travel if it is ever to be anything more than a miniscule player in the Guyana economy.