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What now appears to be a battle between the Georgetown municipality and the recently created Guyana Market Vendors Union (GMVU) for the ‘hearts and minds’ of the urban vending community is heating up in the wake of last week’s move by City Hall to formally register city vendors.

  Gold Prices for the three-day period  ending Thursday February 23, 2017Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

GASCI Summary of Financials  Session 709 February 20, 2017

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has commended Jamaica for its economic initiatives.

Three local lending agencies have disbursed a total of US$1.983 million in loans to 101 clients under the Medium and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) credit guarantee arrangement with the Small Business Bureau since the inception of the scheme in 2014, according to information made available to the Stabroek Business.

What had appeared several months ago to be encouraging signs of movement towards technical assistance from Trinidad and Tobago in developing an oil and gas sector in Guyana, now appears to be languishing in uncertainty.

By Karen Abrams, MBA “Without women’s empowerment and gender equality, societies will not be able to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and their full development potential,” Claudinah Ramosepele, South Africa’s delegate to the Sixty-sixth UN General Assembly Third Committee, 2011.

By Louis Holder The future begins now is an expose of a vision of the future.

If, these days, the contemporary ambitions of young Guyanese invariably extend beyond the pursuit of agriculture, the pressure of the global food shortage and the potential for growing successful businesses held out in the pursuit of food cultivation remain a decidedly attractive prospect.

Two months after a visit here by officials of the Russian company RUSAL in an effort to detoxify the relationship between the majority RUSAL-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) and the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) which has bargaining rights for some of the workers there, the protracted soured industrial relations climate persists.

Brooke Glasford is a thoughtful, engaging 25-year-old who is announcing her presence in the local fashion industry following a six-year sojourn in Canada.

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Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday February 16, 2017Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

It is now just over three years since then president Donald Ramotar launched the Small Enterprise Development and Building Alternative Livelihoods for Vulnerable Groups (MSED) project in October 2013, which is intended to support the goals of the Government of Guyana in the areas of poverty alleviation.

As the two-week ultimatum given by the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) for a meeting with President David Granger to discuss taxes and other issues approaches an end, a well-placed mining administration official has told Stabroek Business that there is real concern over the association’s threatened cessation in gold production in the event that the effort to meet with the President does not bear fruit.

With state policy placing increasing emphasis on mining site safety and an environmentally responsible regime of mining practices in the country’s gold mining sector the work of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission’s (GGMC) Mining School is assuming an increasingly central position in ensuring the integrity of the sector, its Administrator John Applewhite-Hercules has told the Stabroek Business.

By Karen Abrams, MBA Co-Founder, STEMGuyana   In a past life, I was responsible for network operations for the third largest internet service provider (ISP) in the United States. At