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LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s listed oil companies have slashed oil output by 2.4 per cent so far this year during one of the industry’s worst downturns as OPEC battles to agree on its first production cut since 2008.

LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar surged to a near 14-year high before pulling back yesterday, clocking up records against a range of other top world currencies and skittling emerging markets.

Nothing alters the public mood at Port Kaituma like gold prices.

On weeknights the vendors show off their fruit and vegetables on both sides of Robb Street between Alexander and Bourda streets—huge piles of mostly freshly reaped callaloo, okra, bora and tomato and an assortment of fruit in season—their stalls attended by groups of family members and helpers carefully divided into those who handle the display and the others who interface with the customers.

Each year the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) publishes a high-quality, editorially pleasing publication that serves to remind us in ways that are emotionally satisfying, of our country’s tremendous potential as a world class tourist destination.

There is little if any likelihood that you would find a qualified chef, who also holds a degree in Political Science, serving as food and beverage manager in a high-profile city restaurant.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)                            *Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

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Gold Prices for the three-day period  ending Thursday November 24, 2016                    Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

The current national preoccupation with Guyana’s recent significant oil find and its potential for driving an economic takeoff has, for several months now, been the focus of vigorous public and political discourse.

Tomorrow, Saturday November 19, will be celebrated as Women’s Entrepreneurship Day and the George-town Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with the privately-owned GeoTechVision, the Small Business Bureau and CUSO International, will host a seminar aimed at further fostering entrepreneurship and celebrating women in business, at the Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown.

The creation of the Mahdia-Konwaruk Small Miners Forest and Agricultural Producers Association would appear to be part of the latest trek on what has been an intrepid journey by itinerant men and women whom, for years, have fought with little success to secure land in hinterland regions to ply their respective trades.

By Valrie Grant, Entrepreneur, Managing Director, GeoTechVision Chairperson Small Business Council   Global Entrepre-neurship Week (GEW) is the world’s largest celebration of entrepre-neurs.

By Louis Holder Louis Holder is an entrepreneur in the manufacturing sector   The commencement of this series of articles by Louis Holder represents an initiative undertaken by the Stabroek Business to encourage members of the business community to enjoin the ongoing discourse on issues pertaining to the Guyana economy, the global economy and the various ways in which Guyana is increasingly affected by the interdependent nature of the global community.

A Guyanese from Ross, West Coast Berbice, continues to make waves in his adopted country, the United States.

Captain Gerry Gouveia has a particular reason to remember the tragedy that was Jonestown, 38 years ago.

Even as the Government of Guyana continues to tag the Small Business Bureau as the principal state-run agency for effectively implementing the provisions of the Small Business Act, the Ministry of Business believes that there are “several institutional constraints and challenges” that preclude the state-run agency from effectively exercising that mandate.

Create Your Space is a work in progress by Guyanese-born Jo-Netta Caesar, who, having lived and worked in the United States for several years, has set herself the goal of bringing an enhanced taste to local homes and other spaces by placing a number of one-of-a-kind finds on the local market.

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It made for encouraging news that the GO-Invest Chief Executive Officer Owen Verwey met with a sizeable group of Brazilians, potential investors we are told, at the Brazilian Cultural Centre earlier this week “to explore investment opportunities” in Guyana’s economy.