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GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 673’s trading results showed consideration of $5,201,048 from 157,970 shares traded in 37 transactions as compared to session 672’s trading results, which showed consideration of $36,062,715 from 1,352,593 shares traded in 42 transactions.

The very last thing that City Hall needs now that it is probably better-positioned than it was a few months ago to put behind it a past strewn with accusations of fraud, mismanagement and corruption is more of the same, though it seems on the basis of the available evidence that it may not be particularly mindful of the consequences of passing the same way twice.

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STILL  LONG ROAD TO TRAVEL: Cluttered with food receptacles and dried grass this Robb Street concrete drain continues to resist the efforts of City Hall to bring a greater measure of order to the capital.

Some of the country’s leading hotels and guest houses have been talking up their favourable occupancy levels during the peak period of the 2016 Jubilee Independence Anniversary celebrations.

At a time when local business houses are not averse to openly frowning on what they say is the underperformance of business support organizations (BSOs) the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) says it believes its agenda is moving ever closer to meeting some of the critical needs of the business community.

Several months after we raised the issue of the seemingly long-postponed public/private sector ‘summit’ there has been no definitive word from either side as to whether or when the two will meet though the former chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Major General (ret’d) Norman McLean did say in a letter to this newspaper that the meeting will take place.

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By Valrie Grant Entrepreneur, Managing Director GeoTechVision   Achieving success in your business will not happen by chance – it begins with your attitude.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday June 09, 2016

(Jamaica Observer) – GraceKennedy (GK) Ltd on Monday announced its intention to execute sub-division of its ordinary shares, or a stock split, three-for-one.

One of the more interesting business houses to put in an appearance at this year’s GuyExpo was the Surinamese company Verenigde Surinaamse Holdingmij (VSH)-United, one of a growing number of entities from Guyana’s Dutch-speaking neighbour to have set up operations in Guyana.

The Facebook picture of Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment Simona Broomes balanced delicately in the middle of a decidedly vulnerable looking paddleboat, her hands extended on both sides, holding on to whatever she is able to grip as a boatman gingerly paddles her across the Konwaruk River, does much to communicate the risks that inhere in working in the mining sector.

Melissa Davy has taken the plunge into what she believes is a decisive phase of her career as a professional in the services sector.

If the recent survey done by the United States magazine, Travel and Leisure is anything to go by, the Caribbean’s hugely economically significant tourist season is not in danger of imminent ruin on account of the Zika virus.

By Karen Abrams   STEM is a familiar acronym for Science, Technology, Engineer and Mathematics and many Guyanese students access at least two of the four subject areas in their primary and secondary years of school.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Finance Minister Audley Shaw says investors from Jamaica’s diaspora are challenged by international banks who are refusing to do correspondent banking with banks in Jamaica.

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(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)

Orders for $3 million worth of his company’s fabricated steel furniture resulting from his appearance at this year’s GuyExpo may not amount to a major breakthrough for his business, but it is sufficient to persuade Ivor Bunbury that Steel Pro, his 33 Victoria Road Plaisance furniture-making enterprise can still hold its own in a challenging business environment.