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Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 24, 2020 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

The international financial sector was reportedly alive with talk earlier this week over reports that a number of prominent banking institutions have been profiting handsomely from illicit dealings from what a media report seen by the Stabroek Business describes as “disreputable people and criminal networks.”

In more ways than one the international community has been ‘caught out’ by the advent of the coronavirus.

What seems set to be the most significant virtual communication forum undertaken by any local state or non–state agency up to this time, against the backdrop of the strictures to face-to-face communication imposed by the still rampaging coronavirus, will take place on Wednesday September 23rd to enable an incisive probe into issues relating to the post-Covid-19 fortunes of Guyana’s vital agriculture and agro-processing sectors.

With public infrastructure investment set to play a key role in post-COVID-19 recovery in developing countries, governments will be challenged to protect public funds from the scourge of corruption and to otherwise make informed decisions with regard to the allocation of funding of projects, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The news earlier this week that a Brazilian miner was fined $12 million for allegedly committing several environmental transgressions in pursuit of his mining activities, including destroying a section of the Cuyuni River bank, would by now have gotten left behind amidst the various other issues that compete for public attention at this time.

One of the Pomeroon’s best-known female farmers, Rosemund Benn, has found her entrepreneurial calling in the manufacturing sector.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – In 1973, Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries brought the U.S.

Aiming it says, to offer customers service “in a high-tech-low-touch atmosphere in light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic” Metro Office and Computer Supplies has announced the launch of its website and e-commerce platform, with effect from August 20.

(Trinidad Guardian) Australian Outfit BHP Billiton has discovered between 5 and 6.6 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas in T&T’s deepwater, according to Energy Minister Franklin Khan.

Seeking, it says, to breathe new life into its operations here, the Jamaican-owned gambling establishment, Supreme Ventures Guyana Holdings, says that it has set March 2021 as a timeline for recovery from the shaky start to its operations which commenced here in 2019.

Stock market updates GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 880’s trading results showed consideration of $4,294,871 from 42,938 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 879’s trading results which showed consideration of $8,967,093 from 97,893 shares traded in 18 transactions.

Average Wholesale & Retail Prices at Rural and Urban Markets                  *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.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 17, 2020  Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

When COVID-19 struck Sandra Craig, the proprietor of SS Natural Fruit Flavors and one of the country’s more dynamic coastal agro-processors, she was in the middle of contemplating a major leap forward.

Even after poor countries with their abundance of oil & gas and other natural resources experience the thrill of discovery and exploitation, the road to accessing what they consider to be their fair share of those resources,  is still often strewn with formidable obstacles, as both Guyana and Papua New Guinea (PNG) are finding out.

Just six months after the establishment of a resident office here, Global Compliance Service Guyana Inc, the local operational office of the Geneva-headquartered International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Certification Body, Global Compliance Service (GCS), has successfully completed its first ISO certification process here.

The advent of the coronavirus has compelled significant shifts in the Stabroek Business’ coverage of micro- and small-business enterprises, our editorial attention now focussed to a greater extent on their coping capabilities and on the extent to which they have been able to sustain and even grow their levels of patronage in this challenging period.