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Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday October 20, 2016                    Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

The newly established Guyana Oil and Gas Association (GOGA) on Tuesday evening used the occasion of its launch at the Marriott Hotel to call for “transparent governance” of the sector and to caution against Guyana going the way of other oil-producing countries.

Raymond Trotz believes that next week’s Coconut Festival to be held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre is just the sort of impetus which the local industry needs in its pursuit of a rejuvenation.

It is not the easiest thing in the world to speak glibly about safety in the gold mining sector in circumstances where most of us who dwell outside of that circle do not know much about the associated risks.

By Karen Abrams, MBA Co-Founder, STEMGuyana   The University of the West Indies (UWI) Department of Electrical and Computer Science Team has an idea for STEM education in Trinidad and Tobago and it could potentially benefit the entire Caribbean.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday October 13, 2016                      Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Focused on exploiting the broadest possible range of marketing techniques to promote the locally manufactured Amy’s Pomeroon Coffee (APC), Chief Executive Officer of Amy’s Pomeroon Foods Inc Louis Holder has embarked on an exercise aimed at popularizing the product at government ministries and other state-run entities.

Maxwell Nurse concedes that when he embarked on his first entrepreneurial venture, M&M Graphics in the late 1990s his knowledge of the essentials of running a business was limited to a decidedly deficient understanding of the concept of making a ‘mark up.’

Co-proprietor of the multi-service enterprise operating under the trading name Solutions Pro, Marlon George, is currently engaged in initiatives designed to consolidate the business entity which was created in February 2014 and which, he believes, still has a considerable road to travel.

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Dale Forde is one of a number of farmers from various areas of coastal Guyana who credit the Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL) project with seeing her through some of the toughest times she has had to face.

In a quite unexpected way, the Giftland Mall may have become a victim of its own success.

Exposure to international events that focus on current developments in the global gold-mining industry can help accelerate the growth of Guyana’s own mining sector particularly through the acquisition of technology and investment, Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes has told the Stabroek Business.

STEMGuyana is a big idea whose time has come and it was created to expose Guyanese students to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and the Arts) education in a fun and engaging way.

Modest entrepreneurial initiatives arising out of a growing inclination towards self-employment has given rise to the need for appropriate business training for the investors.

Prohibitive tariff and non-tariff barriers for trade between China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continue to seriously inhibit the prospects for the export of both agricultural and manufactured goods to the world’s single largest market, according to a recently concluded study done by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

It may take some time before efforts to focus the attention of women and young people on agriculture as an entrepreneurial option take traction, but Marissa Lowden, Gender Equity and Youth and Marketing Programme Officer for the Canadian-funded Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL) believes that satisfying progress is being made.