Business

Every year, small intrepid bands of local businesspeople – mostly from the art and craft, jewellery and dress design industries – show up at the local expos – GuyExpo, Berbice Expo and Essequibo event, among others  – and make their way to trade shows mostly in the region, bringing with them modest consignments of the goods they have to offer in the hope that their goods will find favour with the market.

It had always appeared to be the case that the assurance given the citizenry by Town Clerk Royston King in a statement last week that following the withdrawal of services by City Hall’s substantive service providers, Cevons Waste Management and Puran Brothers, the City was putting in place contingency measures to manage, in an environmental friendly manner, the city’s waste disposal, was little more than just another example of the municipality getting ahead of itself.

(Trinidad Guardian) China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) has been awarded a $221.7 million contract by the National infrastructure Development Company (Nidco) to build the controversial Curepe Interchange, the state company’s chairman Herbert George has confirmed.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday August 17, 2017          Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

With the procedural details associated with the launch of a commercial airline route between Guyana and Cuba having finally been expedited by the Cuban Institute of Civil Aeronautics (IACC), Guyana’s Ambassador to Cuba, Halim Majeed has said that tourism is likely to be one of the prime beneficiaries of the new service when it is launched later this month.

Stock market updates      GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 734’s trading results showed consideration of $29,059,205 from 243,721 shares traded in 19 transactions as compared to session 733’s trading results, which showed consideration of $26,275,472 from 655,734 shares traded in 10 transactions.

(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.

General Manager of the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s (GMC) Guyana Shop, Kevin Macklingham has told Stabroek Business that local agro-processors need to raise their game even further in terms of the quality of their packaging and labelling if their products are to be more competitive on the local and overseas markets.

Investment proposals in several sectors of the Guyana economy were facilitated by GO-Invest last year.

Cevons Waste Management and Puran Brothers have won the full backing of much of the private sector.

The country’s remaining standing mangrove forests are continually under threat from “a range of natural and man-made factors”.

A leading UK-headquartered market research firm, Technavio, is predicting that from 2016 and up to 2020 the projected growth of the global coconut water market is likely to be close to a whopping 27 per cent.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday August 10, 2017

(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.

Nothing, she says, pleases her more than the modest achievement of Team Guyana at the recent international robotics tournament in Washington and the occasion it afforded for a celebration at home.

The 2016 Annual Report of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) has highlighted the role of the National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO) in providing services designed to support exporters seeking to meet the phytosanitary import requirements of the country’s overseas trading partners and to “provide pest and related information” critical to facilitating trade relationships between Guyana and her various trading partners.

GASCI Summary of Financials Session 733 August 7, 2017

The Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Guyana Shop situated at the corner of Robb and Alexander streets continues to serve as the marketing incubator for local products ranging from soaps to spices, many of which are still seeking to establish a firm footing on the mainstream market, mostly the supermarket shelves that favour the eye-catching brand name imports.