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A Mahdia Primary School STEM Club contingent is likely to be there too.
A Mahdia Primary School STEM Club contingent is likely to be there too.

Public/private sector officials invited to National Robotics Exhibition

Backed by a retinue of public and private sector organisations including the Department of Youth, the Ministry of Education, the Office of the First Lady, the National Library, the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company, ExxonMobil, Tullow Oil and a significant diaspora group, the local organisation, STEMGuyana says that its Sunday December 15 Annual Robotics Exhibition at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre should be seen as part of the process in the journey in pursuit of its mission to prepare Guyana’s young people to be the country’s next generation of innovators and leaders.

Market prices

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Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday November 21,, 2019 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 854’s trading results showed consideration of $61,252,691 from 329,662 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 853’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,149,935 from 16,588 shares traded in 12 transactions.

GMSA’s ‘UncappeD’ event and the GMC’s Farmers’ Market

Credit must go to both the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) and the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) for what has now become their successive ‘offerings’ of the UncappeD and Farmers Market Day events, both of which are essentially product-promotion events with an eye to providing markets, albeit limited ones, for our farmers and our agro-processors.

A section of the vending activity last Friday

Small businesses warm to SBB Market Day

Last Friday, with most of the business community’s attention turned in the direction of the Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit & Exhibition (GIPEX) at the Marriott Hotel, which was being closely monitored both locally and externally, a decidedly more modest gathering of local small businesses had defied the brisk early morning downpour to occupy tents along the westernmost block on Regent Street, displaying locally-made products including jams and jellies, cooking sauces, cosmetics, spices, wines, jewellery, clothing and footwear.

Roxanne Devonish

Not really retired: Roxanne Devonish’s ‘other life’

During our recent coverage of a product display staged at the Pegasus Hotel through a collaborative effort between the Sonia Noel Foundation for the Creative Arts and the Women’s Association for Sustainable Development we met and spoke with a number of women who are aggressively seeking to turn their creative passions into entrepreneurial pursuits.

Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union General Secretary Lincoln Lewis

RUSAL still bent on having their way in wages talks – Lewis

Even as Russian bauxite company, RUSAL appears to have struck a posture consistent with its recent signal that it may be pulling out of the contractual arrangement with the Government of Guyana through what has been reported as their recent strategic shifting of equipment, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has told Stabroek Business that he is “still not as convinced as RUSAL wants us to believe” that their departure is imminent.

Participants at a recent PTEC training programe. Company CEO Marlon Joseph is seated at right

Local training company aiming to fill key gaps

Across the range of skills that are necessary to drive the country’s development it has become apparent that the scarcity that we continue to experience in critical areas could have a serious negative impact in the period ahead.

 A billboard advertising the offending lumber yard

EPA orders Stewartville lumberyard to institute `mitigation measures’

A Region Three lumberyard owner whose operations have reportedly been creating serious “dust and noise nuisances” in the residential community in which it operates for some time, has finally been required to bring an end to his neighbours’ ordeal through a list of terse orders from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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