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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.

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Government is proceeding with the creation of a petroleum directorate which will be charged with local administrative responsibilities for the country’s oil and gas sector, though Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has told Stabroek Business that he favours not making further information on the key institution public until Cabinet has considered his submission on the matter.

The nature and circumstances of the local gaming industry requires of the National Gaming Authority (NGA) the application of the highest possible standards of integrity and transparency if there is to be an adequate measure of competence in a sector which will attract both national and foreign attention and participation, NGA Chairman,

The news emanating from the Ministry of Business’ recently released 2016-2020 Development Plan pertaining to skills’ shortages in some key public sector agencies extends to the Small Business Bureau, part of the critical apparatus set up for administering the support mechanisms for small business development.

By Vishnu Doerga Vishnu Doerga is President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry and franchise holder for Action COACH Have you ever answered a question with a question?

Fears that the November time frame provided by the Ministry of Business earlier this year for the resumption of the scrap metal trade, after a hiatus of more than 16 months, may not now be met, could cause relations between the Government of Guyana and the Guyana Scrap Metal Dealers Association (GSMDA) to drift into a zone of acrimony.