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The Georgetown Chamber of Com-merce and Industry (GCCI) is partnering with Caribbean Export to deliver a three-day workshop with the objective of further building capacity amongst small and medium-sized enterprises.

Shaan Khan has nothing but a scowl for a society, which he feels has more or less lost its appreciation for classy drawing rooms and tastily furnished bedrooms.

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

The recently established Guyana Geology and Mines Commission Mining School is seeking to raise levels of environmental sensitization across the local mining community by including environmental training as one of the core areas on its curriculum, the School’s Coordinator John Applewhite-Hercules has told Stabroek Business.

Everything that we have heard about next weekend’s Guyana Festival so far suggests that its primary focus is on trying to create an event that will serve as a kind of seasonal benchmark for visitor arrivals.

Curbing what Prime Minister Samuel Hinds once described as “the wild west situation” that obtained in the approach to prospecting in the country’s gold-bearing regions is one of the “critical aims” of the training curriculum being delivered by the Guyana Mining School, according to a senior official of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 574’s trading results showed consideration of $14,233,326 from 145,375 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 573’s trading results which showed consideration of $1,222,490 from 35,831 shares traded in 24 transactions.

When we met Karen Pollard on Tuesday evening she appeared amiable and relaxed despite admitting to having had a demanding day.

A week before the local commercial banking system is expected to become compliant with the provisions of the United States’ Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd has announced that it will shortly be communicating with its customers in Guyana who are expected to be affected by the provisions of the US legislation.

In the wake of delays being experienced in the commencement of the disbursement of loans and grants to local micro and small business under the Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) project funded under the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), President Donald Ramotar has said that government’s efforts to create an enabling and supportive environment for such development are being negatively affected by “bottlenecks” and “bureaucracy” that “can become frustrating.”

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Now more than ever before, small-scale farming and agro processing ventures are among the more prevalent pursuits in low-income communities and among poor families seeking to subsidise their incomes.

From sideshow events at local fairs and exhibitions, small and micro enterprise agro processing has become a popular pursuit among mostly women seeking second incomes or those determined to embrace the processing of fruit and vegetables as a means of building modest but successful businesses.

If you happen by the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Guyana Shop on any trading day you will almost certainly be struck by the number of products on display on the shelves.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 569’s trading results showed consideration of $10,002,300 from 107,873 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 568’s trading results which showed consideration of $3,782,084 from 63,773 shares traded in 10 transactions.

A confrontation appears to be brewing at Timehri between residents who have for years utilized land in the area for farming and who may be on the verge of losing both their farms and their homes, and a group of people purporting to represent the interests of the proposed new international airport.

Whenever it rains with any meaningful level of intensity, the city floods.