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With the local gold industry already having predicted that production is likely to top 300,000 ounces for the third time in successive years, miners are anticipating another good year in the face of successive forecasts of continued price rises through 2011 and up to the end of next year.

The United States is to join Canada in helping to fashion new regulations and policies to govern the management of the oil and gas sector in Guyana, according to US Ambassador Brendt Hardt.

Guyana is one of several Caribbean food exporters that will benefit from a 500 pounds Special Assistance Programme available through the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA) under the European Union’s 10th Regional Private Sector Development Programme to help companies prepare for new, more demanding food safety requirements which exporters to the United States will be required to satisfy under the US Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSA) scheduled to come into force in January next year.

Digest Even though the waiting might be over, Guyanese will still need to digest the implications of the election results for themselves and the country as a whole. 

While there is no certainty that the prices for agricultural commodities will remain stable during the Christmas period, retail price levels released by the New Guyana Marketing Corporation a week ago might well tempt consumers to purchase and store to guard against the eventuality of price increases.

(Trinidad Express) – A billion-dollar loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will be used to help develop sustainable energy and waste water projects and help with relevant technical assistance programmes in Trinidad and Tobago.

Setting aside what is widely believed to be a cultural shift in the region which, in recent years, has manifested itself in a declining interest in agriculture, the Caribbean faces other challenges in what would now appear to be a more than token effort to rekindle interest among the populations of the respective states in looking to the land.

NEW YORK – China’s economy is now taking its next great leap forward: parts of its manufacturing sector are now moving up the value-added chain and out of the country. 

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 436’s trading results showed consideration of $1,742,013 from 141,792 shares traded in 7 transactions as compared to session 435 which showed consideration of $4,742,153 from 117,204 shares traded in 21 transactions. 

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Nothing should stand in the way of a country’s holding of general elections.

The imminent commencement of exploitation activities in Guyana’s commercially viable petroleum basins places the country on the verge of realizing significant economic opportunities, Canadian High Com-missioner David Devine said.

Local business entities in the information technology, food and beverage and engineering sectors will this evening be recognized for their respective contributions to innovation and enterprise in the creation and delivery of goods and services when the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) hosts its sixteenth Dinner and Awards Ceremony  in the ballroom of the Princess Hotel at Providence.

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Last Monday’s discourses between some of the country’s business and political leaders and senior representatives of Canada’s Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOB) may well have attracted a great deal less public attention than merited on account of the understandable preoccupation with next Monday’s general elections.

Living Conditions Quite recently, the World Bank, in a September update of an online report, observed that Guyana would not meet the goal of poverty eradication as required by the Millennium Development initiative. 

Guyana, it appears, is not the only country in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) where the pace of economic progress is retarded by the steely bonds of bureaucracy and where both local and foreign investors must endure what are sometimes bewildering layers of procedure in order to secure approval for their business pursuits.

The new John Lewis Styles store situated on Waterloo Street immediately north of the Astor Cinema embodies the tasteful ambience that meets the demands of the contemporary fashion-conscious Guyanese shopper and the owner, a member of one of the city’s best-known business families, is entirely satisfied that he has begun a journey towards a long-cherished dream.

(Barbados Nation) Digicel Barbados has appealed to Government to approve its application for a fixed line service in order to level the telecommunications playing field.