Prospects for significantly enhanced cooperation between Guyana and Australia in the mining sector could be significantly enhanced in the wake of what Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes has told the Stabroek Business was Guyana’s “fruitful participation” in Latin America Down Under (LADU).
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As if the weighty responsibilities associated with monitoring consignments of foods being imported into Guyana for sale to the consuming public were not enough, the Government Analyst Food & Drugs Department (GA&FDD) has other equally weighty responsibilities that have to do with monitoring the safety of street-vended foods.
The positive social and economic transformation of the Guyanese society in the years ahead will depend, crucially, on the preparedness of both the public and private sectors to make significant investments in training personnel to a level that will equip them to match the service needs of the various state and non – state entities.
The Dennis Street Sophia Catering Service known as Dionne’s Delight is the product of more than eighteen years of single-minded attention to business growth and raising service standards on the parts of Dionne and Brian Peters.
A review of the performance of the “other crops” sector for the first four months of this year prepared by the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) painted what, from all appearances, was a justifiably glowing picture of the yield from commonly used greens, vegetables and fruit in Guyana.
The International Labour Organization Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean in Collaboration with Red Thread, Guyana and the Department of Cooperatives recently staged a Workshop of the formation of a Domestic Workers’ Cooperative at the Cara Lodge.
Hinterland agriculture is expected to come into sharper focus this year as the country embraces production of onions, potatoes and other non-traditional crops.
In pursuit of the challenge of re-engineering its product line to ensure that the company meets the packaging needs of new and emerging industries in local and external markets, Carib-bean Container Inc.
Coordinator of Guyana’s first ever National Robotics Exhibition, Karen Abrams has told Stabroek Business that the event provides the local private sector with “as good an opportunity as is available to the business community to make a meaningful investment in the qualitative growth of the country, not for this year and the next but for generations to come.
Ageing coconut groves and a sharp reduction of investment in cultivation had caught the industry off guard in the wake of the increased regional demand for coconut and its by-products.
Earlier this week we received some uplifting news from the agricultural sector, through the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) regarding a breakthrough in the cultivation of some crops not previously known to have been cultivated on a sustained basis in commercial quantities in Guyana, including onion and potato.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 721’s trading results showed consideration of $8,876,776 from 247,472 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 720’s trading results, which showed consideration of $14,425,378 from 230,078 shares traded in 4 transactions.