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For 24-year-old Kerry Woolford next month’s fourth annual Wedding Expo staged by the Roraima Group of Companies at its Duke Lodge Hotel in Kingston provides an opportunity to broaden a client base that took off after her first time participation in the event last year.

Having traditionally looked to tourism as the island’s major money earner for decades, Barbados is beginning to advocate greater reliance be placed on agriculture both as an economic resource and as a provider of jobs.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 451’s trading results showed consideration of $4,665,636 from 181,176 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 450 which showed consideration of $10,287,390 from 252,008 shares traded in 13 transactions. 

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has published notices in the local media announcing an impending lottery for special mining permit parcels in the gold-bearing regions of Guyana.

Businesses at last Saturday’s Job Fair organized by the Rotary Clubs of Demerara and Georgetown have lauded the initiative as one that should be undertaken more frequently with the support of both the government and the private sector.

Mood The mood is upbeat at Reunion Manganese Incorporated (RMI) about the prospects for achieving economic success from its Matthews Ridge mining operations. 

Forty young entrepreneurs are currently operating new businesses through funding provided by the Guyana Youth Business Trust (GYBT) the youth arm of the Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) under a US$101,800, 000 partnership programme between IPED and the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) and several more are being prepared to access funding for business startups, according to GYBT General Manager Daren Torrington.

Fourteen years after launching Despat’s Creative Craft, Patricia Helwig continues to search for the rewards which she believes her efforts should have yielded by this time.

A senior Guyanese educator currently serving in the state school system has told Stabroek Business that some books delivered to schools by the Ministry of Education’s Book Distribution Unit (BDU) have included copied texts, which constitute a violation of the copyright law.

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There may well be no nexus between what Acting Police Commissioner Leroy Brummell had to say about interior crime at the Police Officers Conference earlier this week and the story carried in last Friday’s edition of the Stabroek Business on the same issue.

Britain’s Independent on Sunday newspaper’s global survey to mark International Women’s Day has revealed that “Jamaica has the highest ratio of women in high-skilled jobs, such as legislators, senior officials and managers”.

Record world market prices have transformed Guyana’s gold-mining industry in several significant ways.

Just weeks after the Coateses launched their new $50 million funeral home at Little Diamond on the East Bank Demerara, one of the three directors of the entity, Petal Coates, is talking about writing the family name into the annals of an industry that has already produced quite a few household names.

A certain measure of public sympathy – deriving from the fact that street vending is an honest alternative to unemployment – has always accrued to street vendors.

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Barbados agri sector looking up The Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS) is claiming modest accomplishments in the country’s agricultural sector against the backdrop of what is generally felt to be few if any strides by Caricom countries to reduce the region’s huge food import bill by doing more to energize their agricultural sectors.

Housing Programme The structure of the mortgage market for housing is no accident. 

Unless the current industrial dispute between Trinidad Cement Ltd. (TCL) and its 600 employees is settled quickly a serious cement shortage could afflict the region.

While Guyana, and the Caribbean as a whole, are yet to make a meaningful mark on the global market for tropical fruit, local fruit growers can take heart from the continually optimistic soundings of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) regarding a growing market for the world’s leading tropical fruit, much of which are produced locally.