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Winston Waddle and Natasha Goodrich are not at all nervous about picking up their $2 million ‘Race to the Altar’ wedding prize at the Roraima Duke Lodge this weekend.

Setting aside the highly-entertaining public spectacle which the Roraima Group of Companies’ Wedding Expo has become, its organisers are holding it up as a worthwhile business venture for other equally important reasons.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday March 26, 2015

The work environment at the partially state-owned Bauxite Company Guyana Inc (BCGI) is not only inhospitable, it is probably the worst in the country, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has said.

Closer technological ties with Brazil will be one of the focal points of an expanded economic diplomacy demarche under an APNU-AFC coalition as a means of giving greater impetus to private sector development, opposition presidential candidate David Granger has told the Stabroek Business.

Athalyah Yisrael is part of a fast-growing group of Guyanese women who are embracing self-employment.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday March 19, 2015

Elizabeth Bunbury hopes that Guyana’s hosting of the March 31 to April 2 Conference of the Caribbean Association of Home Economists (CAHE) will not just raise the profile of Home Economics, but help erect a bridge between the discipline as subject on the curriculum and a vehicle for employment creation and broadening the base of the country’s economy, particularly its manufacturing sector.

With an overall percentage success rate of between 85 and 90 per cent, Guyanese students pursuing the Australian Institute of Business (AIB) Master of Business Administration (MBA) have been a credit to the institution, visiting Student Support Manager Bojan Mandic told Stabroek Business in an interview earlier this week.

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The keenness of women to embrace self-employment reflects itself at several levels of our society, from the preponderance of vendors in the various municipal markets, arcades and pavements in the city and its environs to the more established ‘high street’ and services entities in the beauty, entertainment and other sectors.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 607’s trading results showed consideration of $19,838,956 from 268,426 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 606’s trading results, which showed consideration of $16,422,537 from 406,554 shares traded in 18 transactions.

The Government of Guyana has more or less slammed the door shut against the legalization of marijuana but there are other opinions on the subject amongst politicians and businessmen in the region and many of those are diametrically opposed to the prevailing official opinion here.

Since 1996, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) Agricultural Health and Food Specialist Dr Maxine Parris-Aaron has been working with the Women Agro Processors Development Network.

We take our role as a “business supplement” to mean, among other things, that we have a responsibility to report not only on substantive business issues but on related ones as well, that is, matters which we feel have a critical bearing on business and the economy.

By Dale Beresford   Each year, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases extensive data regarding workplace injuries, illnesses and fatalities.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 606’s trading results showed consideration of $16,422,537 from 406,554 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session 605’s trading results, which showed consideration of $711,622 from 16,487 shares traded in 9 transactions.

Sheree Baron is a Guyanese-born Canadian citizen who migrated to Canada at the age of seven, a matter of months before Guyana became independent in 1966.

The challenges to the country’s gold mining industry arising out of a drop in the price of gold and pressures to mitigate the environmental hazards linked to the use of mercury appear to be priority areas in the Guyana Mining School and Training Centre’s efforts to deliver an intensive regime of training for the country’s miners this year.