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GENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Brexit has created an administrative and diplomatic minefield for Britain by triggering a reworking of its relations in the most contentious area of international trade — agriculture.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday April 6, 2017

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 715’s trading results showed consideration of $11,416,955 from 270,360 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 714’s trading results, which showed consideration of $4,641,577 from 130,951 shares traded in 15 transactions. 

By the time this editorial is read the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be winding down what is arguably its most important Heads of Mission conferences in several years.

(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.

Feedback from a recent visit to more than 70 business houses in Georgetown by officials of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) points to a significant decline in urban commercial activity, newly elected President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Deodat Indar has told the Stabroek Business.

The present standoff between the APNU+AFC Coalition Government and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) following a sharp public exchange between the two earlier this month is “a counterproductive development that is unacceptable given the uncertainty of the present economic climate,” former PSC Chairman and Roraima Airways Chief Executive Officer Gerry Gouveia told Stabroek Business in an interview on Tuesday.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 703’s trading results showed

Chastened by the relatively sudden disappearance of the economic windfall that had been triggered by the PetroCaribe oil for rice deal, the business community on the Essequibo Coast is still seeking to find its feet in a changed economic environment where the loss of a 200,000-tonne rice market has created deep uncertainty for the industry.

  Wednesday March 22, 2017 marked a significant stage in the development of cargo operations at the Piarco International Airport as Laparkan Shipping (Trinidad) Limited launched the creation of its new Warehouse and Logistics Centre at the South Terminal.

GASCI Summary of Financials Session 714 March 27, 2017

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending  Thursday March 30, 2017

We note with interest that two high-profile private sector officials, one a veteran leader of both the Georgetown Chamber and the Private Sector Commission and the other the incoming President of the Chamber have endorsed the sentiment expressed in our editorial last Friday regarding the desirability of a meeting between the government and the private sector.

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

Over this past weekend, my team and I participated in the ‘Women in Business Expo’ at Pegasus Hotel.

The economic options for the residents of Moruca are limited mostly to fishing, logging, mining and farming.

Last week’s signing in Caracas of an agreement between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, under which the former will receive natural gas from the huge Dragón Field, will not affect Guyana’s perception of the quality of its relationship with its sister Caricom country.

With the country now plagued by the persistence of food imports that transgress the Food and Drugs Act and pose possible serious health risks to consumers, the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GAFDD) this week moved to have a United States-based company suspended from providing supplies to local food importers.