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By Shawn Cumberbatch shawncumberbatch@nationnews.com Reprinted from the Barbados Nation In the Barbadian household the landline was once a precious thing.

Ravi Doobay is one of several farmers who have come from various parts of the country to settle on farmlands at Laluni.

Concerns over limitations to the capacity of the Government Food and Drug Analyst Department (GA-FDD) to effectively monitor the importation of suspected fake foods—particularly milk—into the country and more importantly to prevent the imports from being placed on the local market are raising questions as to whether this deficiency is not now putting at serious risk the health of local consumers including, worryingly, children whose diet includes a significant intake of manufactured infant formula.

Against the backdrop of a statement issued by the Office of Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment earlier this week alluding to damage to the bank of the Potaro River arising out of illegal mining activity, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has issued a statement reminding miners that the mining of river banks (buffer zones) is against the law and prohibiting such activity “without due consideration of and specific consideration from the commission.”

Currently in its 125th year of existence, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) last year set a modest but noteworthy membership record which, it says, reflects a growing interest by the urban business community in the services it has to offer.

Barbados hosting first regional business startups forum The Caribbean business community would appear to be attaching considerable importance to the April 29 – 30 First Caribbean Startup Summit at the Lloyd Erskine Centre in Barbados which is being held to support regional startup entrepreneurs and which, reports from Bridgetown say, will feature a range of regional and international speakers as well as representatives from a host of business organizations from across the Caribbean.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday  April 21, 2016

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 664’s trading results showed consideration of $6,081,243 from 30,219 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 663’s trading results, which showed consideration of $9,175,468 from 441,569 shares traded in 5 transactions.

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“It would be a mistake for government to assume that respect for workers’ rights can be traded for foreign investment since that assumption is probably likely to leave us worse off as a society than if we have no foreign investment at all,” General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has told the Stabroek Business.

The announcement earlier this week that 13 dredges and a dragger had been caught mining illegally in the area of the protected Kaieteur National Park area underscores the challenges that the authorities in Guyana will continue to face in circumstances where the mining of gold continues to coexist with imperatives that have to do with our obligation to the environment.

Contributing to the further consolidating of the country’s food security status and better positioning of the agricultural sector to take advantage of international markets are high on the list of priorities of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI).

Against the backdrop of testing challenges confronting the Essequibo business community in the face of last year’s loss of the Venezuelan PetroCaribe     rice market, the ‘Cinderella County’s’ Chamber of Commerce in April elected a new executive headed by 63-year-old hotelier Deleep Singh, with a mandate to design strategies to galvanize the county’s economy.

These days, more than 300 vendors ply their trade on the streets and pavements of Georgetown.

One of Caricom’s most conservative member countries has taken its place in the queue to benefit from the emerging economic opportunities that are thought likely to arise out of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Havana and Washington.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp has sued the US government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is looking at their emails, the latest in a series of clashes over privacy between the technology industry and Washington.

Resident in Jamaica for the past 35 years, Mohan Jagnarine says he is seeing benefit in collaborating with local farmers to secure valuable raw material for his successful agro-processing enterprise in Kingston.

The creation of a regime of good order at mining locations that enables the efficient, legally acceptable and environmentally sustainable exploitation of the country’s mineral resources can only be realized through a combination of effective enforcement of mining laws on the one hand and the preparedness of the miners themselves to adhere to those laws.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday January 14, 2016

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 663’s trading results showed consideration of $9,175,468 from 441,569 shares traded in 5 transactions as compared to session 662’s trading results, which showed consideration of $277,150 from 7,734 shares traded in 5 transactions.