Business

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 875’s trading results showed consideration of $7,285,038 from 91,295 shares traded in 15 transactions as compared to session 874’s trading results which showed consideration of $1,827,276 from 14,130 shares traded in 12 transactions.

Dhaniram Ramchand’s pursuits in the world of agriculture take him beyond simply cultivating and marketing food.

How to create viable business enterprises out of hinterland-based ‘hustles’ designed, in the first instance, to foster a measure of self-reliance in communities with strictly limited employment options, is a challenge that Guyana is yet to overcome.

GEB Security Services rewards its high achievers On July 24 last, one of the country’s longest serving security services, GEB Security Services Inc, held its Annual Award Presentation Ceremony for its guards and officers during which a number of persons received monetary awards in six categories for salutary performances. 

A combination of worsening global poverty and the particular challenges arising out of the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic could push more than over 130 million more people into chronic hunger by the end of 2020, the latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, published in July warns.

At Moco Moco Village in Region Nine, Central Rupununi, opportunities for sustainable employment are few. 

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 874’s trading results showed consideration of $1,827,276 from 14,130 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 873’s trading results which showed consideration of $6,079,395 from 61,435 shares traded in 15 transactions.

The new Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

Our ongoing editorial focus on small businesses in agriculture, agro processing and on hinterland business ventures (gold being the notable exception here) is that we believe that setting aside its other pursuits the media have a responsibility to stand behind these enterprises at a time when the repercussions of COVID-19 threaten their survival and by extension, the welfare of the owners and their dependents.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 6, 2020

The current trials of the fifteen year-old Hosororo Hill, Region One, Blue Flame Women’s Group is a typical example of the plight of many of the centres of economic activity in Guyana’s interior communities where a passion for entrepreneurship continues to be undermined by logistical blockages and official sloth in creating conditions more convivial to their growth.

For local small and micro businesses, simply surviving the ravages of the current rampaging COVID-19 will be a considerable achievement.

What is still touted as one of the fastest growth industries anywhere in the business world has been unable to hide from the ravages of the coronavirus according to authoritative sector sources.

Assessments of the longer term impact of COVID-19 on the way we live and a likely time frame for a return to some semblance of normalcy in several key service areas are likely to have to be revisited even as the pandemic continues to show no sign of slipping into retreat mode.

It is only over the past decade or so that the popularity of cupcakes has really gone through the proverbial roof here in Guyana.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending July 30th , 2020 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 873’s trading results showed consideration of $6,079,395 from 61,435 shares traded in 15 transactions as compared to session 872’s trading results which showed consideration of $8,626,930 from 89,920 shares traded in 14 transactions.

Two weeks ago the Stabroek Business commenced publishing promotional features on various small and micro business across the country in an effort to raise their profiles at a time of challenge associated with the onset of the Coronavirus.