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Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday  December 17, 2015

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 646’s trading results showed consideration of $1,474,100 from 22,705 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 645’s trading results, which showed consideration of $5,605,474 from 229,958 shares traded in 7 transactions.

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Guyana’s halting efforts to create a viable and sustainable tourism sector over the years are more likely than not to continue to fall short of its goals unless government makes a decisive commitment to investing in the global marketing of the country.

The newly registered General Contractors Association of Guyana (GCAG) has pledged to work to create an environment in which “quality, honesty and fairness” become watchwords in the sector and where its members are “consistently compliant in the tender process.”

There was an encouraging sense of entrepreneurship amongst many of the vendors who placed their goods on display at last month’s first ever Small Business Exposition.

Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Local business houses now have at their disposal the service of a tool that helps them measure the value they receive for their advertising dollar by determining just how much of what they disseminate actually reaches the market.

Fresh from participating in last month’s Business Exposition for small entrepreneurs at the Sophia Pavilion, Denyse Grant is preparing top hit the road again.

The newly established General Contractors Association of Guyana (GCAG) will be exploring means through which smaller contractors can have more ready access to state contracts for jobs that fall within their operating capacity, founder member of the organization, Neil Cort-Rogers has told Stabroek Business.

Last February, Onika Reynolds, a stay-at-home mother, took a leap of faith when she launched Nika’s Kustom Kreations.

Guyanese-American teen siblings Ima, Asha, and Caleb Christian copped first place at the just concluded 2015 Innovating Justice Challenge award conference in The Hague, Netherlands.

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(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)            *Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

From December 8 to 9, more than 125 students of the Carnegie School of Home Economics staged an impressive display of their various taught skills during the school’s Christmas Village 2015.

Even as reports surfaced on Wednesday that Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman had ordered that embattled Commissioner of the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) Rickford Vieira proceed on leave, sources intimate with the country’s mining industry have told Stabroek Business that the circumstances surrounding persistent rumours that Vieira might eventually be dismissed are “neither straightforward nor uncomplicated.”

It was perhaps inevitable that comparisons would be made between what was officially billed as a one-off event, last weekend’s three-day Business Exposition and annual GuyExpo that was postponed, officials said, so that government of Guyana could throw its full weight behind using GuyExpo 2016 as one of the blue-ribbon events to mark the 50th year of Guyana’s attainment of independence.

Less than five years ago Jennel Pierre was a studious St Stanislaus College student contemplating the possible pursuit of a post-CSEC career in one branch or another of the Natural Sciences.

By Valrie Grant, Managing Director, GeoTechVision Previous articles would have dealt with GIS in various aspect of economic development.