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Dr. Oudho Homenauth
Dr. Oudho Homenauth

Large private agri projects should pay for services provided by NAREI – Homenauth

While the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) should continue to perform its service-related functions to the country’s agricultural sector including its role in providing valuable technical support to privately-run projects, there exists a case for attaching fees to services provided by the Institute, Chief Executive Officer of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) Dr.

At energy summit, climate pits U.S. against Europe

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. energy secretary blasted renewable fuels champions on Wednesday while the head of Royal Dutch Shell Plc urged the energy sector to focus on global efforts to cut carbon emissions, reflecting a yawning trans-Atlantic gap on climate issues.

Executive Director of Caribbean Export Development Agency, Pamela Coke-Hamilton

CDB, Caribbean Export ink financing agreement for women-owned businesses

Sourcing funds for business ventures could become easier for women-owned businesses in the Caribbean following the signing late last month of an agreement between the  European Union-funded regional business support organization, Caribbean Export Development Agency (Carib-bean Export) and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to collaboratively pursue a new initiative titled Women Empowered through Export (WE-Xport) designed to support capacity-building for women-owned businesses to facilitate their access to finance, a release from Caribbean Export says.

Visiting Roopan Ramotar’s Pomeroon coconut estate

Food & Drug Dep’t recruits Jamaican firm to upgrade local coconut water testing

In what is being seen here as a response to last January’s seizure by the authorities in Trinidad and Tobago of a consignment of coconut water from Guyana on the grounds that it failed to meet the requisite food safety standard and therefore could not be sold there, Director of the Govern-ment Analyst-Food & Drugs Department (GA-FDD)Marlan Cole has told Stabroek Business that the agency has secured the services of a Jamaican consulting agency The Jamaican consulting entity will conduct what he says will be “hands on training for Laboratory Technicians, Inspectors and other technical personnel designed to upgrade their food safety testing capabilities”.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 763’s trading results showed consideration of $14,329,514 from 71,589 shares traded in 22 transactions as compared to session 762’s trading results which showed consideration of $4,685,043 from 25,094 shares traded in 18 transactions.

Market Prices

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)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.

Oil and pragmatism

One of the regrettable features of the unfolding discourse on Guyana’s oil find and its implications for the country’s future has been the shift in the focus of the public discourse from the portents of becoming an ‘oil economy’ for the development of the people and the enhancement of the welfare of the people to the issue of the division of the spoils between Guyana as the owners of the resource and the entity that undertook the investment and the risk associated with confirming the presence of oil and undertaking the recovery effort.

Young STEM Guyana disciples

Opening the gateway to a technology-driven future

By Karen Abrams, MBA Co-Founder, STEMGuyana The past few years have witnessed a significantly enhanced sensitivity among our young people, particularly school-age children, to the importance of information technology as an educational tool that will serve our country’s developmental mission.

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.

Market Prices

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)

NAREI Director Dr. Oudho Homenauth and an interested President David Granger inspecting tomato plots

NAREI to produce 25,000 tomato seedlings

The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) is spearheading the cultivation of 25,000 tomato seedlings which will be allocated to meet the production needs of the Pakaraima Flavours Sundried Tomato Project of Region Eight.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 762’s trading results showed consideration of $4,685,043 from 25,094 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session 761’s trading results which showed consideration of $20,735,105 from 251,919 shares traded in 30 transactions.

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