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(GASCI www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 565’s trading results showed consideration of $23,439,905 from 826,008 shares traded in 23 transactions as compared to session 564’s trading results which showed consideration of $4,729,698 from 128,610 shares traded in 28 transactions.

The decline in the number of guests that drop by Bartica’s Seventh Avenue Hotel looking for a room has not been sufficiently significant to cause the establishment’s Proprietrix Sonjie De Barros to worry needlessly.

One of the many pieces missing from Guyana’s tourism jigsaw is how to go about creating a training regime that would allow us to offer an at least acceptable level of service to visitors.

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To the indifferent it may seem like a modest even inconsequential project.

A week after Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy publicly announced that the country’s rice industry had produced a record 300,000-tonne first crop for this year, Stabroek Business has learnt that many of the more than 1,500 rice farmers in Essequibo are displeased over the long-standing and seemingly insoluble problem of protracted payments for paddy delivered to the mills.

Difficulties associated with concluding a deal with a brand name airline to fly to Guyana continues to be the single major barrier to the growth of Guyana’s tourism industry.

It was heartening to hear from the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) earlier this week that a group of Canadian businessmen who had come to Guyana on a mission to check out the prospects of buying local farm produce and agro-processed foods, had expressed the view that what they saw in Guyana would probably meet the expectations of the Canadian market.

By Mark Jacobs   These are exciting times for the science of farming.

By Joycelyn Williams   Joycelyn Williams is a Lecturer in the Economics Department at the University of Guyana and a Programme Management Consultant.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 564’s trading results showed consideration of $4,729,698 from 128,610 shares traded in 28 transactions as compared to session 563’s trading results which showed consideration of $1,837,858 from 29,414 shares traded in 12 transactions.

Last week a group of around 20 Home Econo-mics teachers from across the country gathered at the Carnegie School of Home Economics (CSHE) to receive instructions from an Ecuadorean woman named Paulino Valenzuela on the various ways in which breadfruit can become a greater part of the local culinary culture.

– British, Mexican help being sought Ongoing discussions in the sector over several years on the issue of improving the country’s maritime infrastructure are yet to yield any practical remedial action as the Guyana Shipping Association (GSA) continues to enjoin a restrained discourse over what a source told Stabroek Business is “a matter that goes to the heart of the country’s economy.”

Following last Thursday’s talks in Georgetown with President Donald Ramotar and other local officials including Education Minister Priya Manickchand,   Samsung Head of Ente-rprise Division Marco Osio told Stabroek Business that the company is aiming to set up Guyana’s first Smart Classroom by August this year.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 563’s trading results showed consideration of $1,837,858 from 29,414 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 562’s trading results which showed consideration of $4,007,504 from 83,108 shares traded in 19 transactions.

When we spoke with bureaucrat turned businessman Schulder Griffith on Wednesday he was preoccupied with explaining a marketing strategy that is designed to have his new venture grow in what he believes is a potentially lucrative market.

– Regional Shipping Association VPA senior regional maritime official has placed the responsibility squarely on the shoulders of Caribbean Community (Caricom) governments to ensure that seaports in the region are equipped to enable their respective countries to participate actively and effectively in international trade.

Local Information and Communication Technology (ICT) service providers could get a key opportunity to demonstrate their goods and services to an international market when they travel to Suriname in June to participate in that country’s ICT Trade Exposition.

– coconuts, rice, cassareep in demand Guyana’s lack of export readiness continues to impede serious growth in the volumes of the country’s food exports to Canada at a time when the demand for local products among Guyanese and West Indians in that country is on the increase, Consultant to the local Trade and Facilitation Office (TFO) Bertrand Walle told Stabroek Business earlier this week.