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Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday  August 6, 2015

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 627’s trading results showed consideration of $6,012,888 from 82,274 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 626’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,144,497 from 7,029 shares traded in 10 transactions.

Every conceivable economic activity at Port Kaituma revolves around the gold-mining industry so that it is hardly surprising that the downward spiral in the price of gold has cast a pall of gloom over the community.

Minister of Health Dr George Norton has formally disclosed that the government has halted what was clearly an attempt a few weeks ago to ‘walk’ a $572 million payment to the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (New GPC) through the system.

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Public and private sector workplaces will come under closer official scrutiny, Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection Simona Broomes told Stabroek Business earlier this week, adding that her ministry will be exercising much greater vigilance in matters that have to do with the safety and health of workers.

On the basis of the available evidence, the organizers of last weekend’s Linden River Front Festival would almost certainly have fallen short of persuading residents to buy into the vision of the once thriving mining town being able to offer a tourism option.

It is evidently not by accident that in one of his relatively early public presentations substantively connected to the country’s economy President David Granger has signalled his concern for the challenges confronting the rice industry and his government’s interest in supporting the sector in its anticipated response to the problem.

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In response to concerns expressed by small vendors who customarily cash in on the annual GuyExpo event, Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin has told the Stabroek Business that the APNU/+FC coalition administration has no intention of removing what has become a highly popular and – for the small and micro business sector – a lucrative one-off market opportunity – from the country’s events’ calendar.

Beneficiaries of funding under the state-run Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) project aimed at assisting vulnerable groups to create alternative livelihoods are now unlikely to satisfy a key original target set out in the project’s conditionalities, Derrick Cummings, former chief executive officer of the Small Business Bureau, the agency responsible for managing the project has told Stabroek Business.

(Trinidad Express) – Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has signed an interline deal with the world’s largest international airline-Emirates, which promises to make it easier for customers to travel the world.

Against the backdrop of the disclosure that Venezuela will no longer be acquiring rice from Guyana under the PetroCaribe Agreement after November this year, it has been disclosed that as part of the alternative arrangements being made by the Maduro administration to fill the demand gap, rice farmers in the economically challenged Bolivarian Republic will be required to sell between 30% and 100% of their output to official state outlets.

Jacqueline Ann Camille Smith (the first letters of her full name spell out the trading name of the business that she operates) defines the economic tailspin that has plagued Linden for more than a decade in terms to which she can personally relates as a businessperson.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 626’s trading results showed consideration of $1,144,497 from 7,029 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 625’s trading results, which showed consideration of $4,353,953 from 177,616 shares traded in 15 transactions.

By the end of August, Oriental General Store would have taken what its General Manager considers to be an important step in changing the face of a company that has a great deal more to offer consumers than it currently does.

Residents of large areas of south Georgetown enjoy the convenience of not having to travel to city markets to buy freshly caught, ready-to-cook fish.

Every year about this time, a small group of skilled craftswomen display an impressive array of African fashion in the Main Street Avenue, close to Courts Guyana Inc.

Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.