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The Mirage Banqueting Hall
The Mirage Banqueting Hall

STEM Guyana seeks private sector help to intensify Grade Six Math intervention

Against the backdrop of what its Administrator says has been a response in “impressive numbers” to the rollout in February of the Mathematics Application designed to support an emergency initiative aimed at improving the Grade Six examination results, STEM Guyana is seeking the support of the local business community to expand and intensify the Mathematics programme as well as apply the initiative to other subject areas at the Grade Six level.

 Minister in the Ministry of Natural ResourcesSimona Broomes
Minister in the Ministry of Natural ResourcesSimona Broomes

Natural Resources Ministry, UG team up to deliver environmental ‘tuition’ for miners

Training and sensitization exercises aimed at providing “critical instructions” on the environmental considerations associated with gold mining will be one of the priorities of the Ministry of Natural Resources even as it seeks to consolidate “a culture of syndicates” as an integral part of the sector, Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes has said.

Mining syndicates

Reporting in sections of the media on the implementation of what is being termed syndicates which we understand to mean cooperatives comprising groups of gold miners who will have mining access to traditionally closed areas has been fast and furious.

Minister Trotman sharing remarks with the gathering at the Guyana Mining Day Seminar during the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada( PDAC) Convention 2017-Toronto, Canada, March 5, 2017).

Foreign investors need not fear ‘illicit demands,’ ‘shakedowns’ – Trotman

Potential foreign investors seeking to do business in Guyana need have no fear of being confronted by local officials seeking favours of them outside the confines of the formal agreements that might exist between themselves and the Government of Guyana, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman told an audience in Canada during a March 5, Guyana Day forum in Toronto.

Chase Academy Head Henry Chase

Private education not just the prerogative of the rich – Chase Academy Head

At a time when private schools are attracting more than customary media attention on account of the current controversy raging over the official decision that private education must now attract Value Added Tax, Henry Chase, the owner and Principal of Chase Academy believes that it is important that the brouhaha does not take away from the role that the private school has to play in the overall education system.

Don Wehby

GraceKennedy banks on money services

(Jamaica Observer) – For the year ended December 2016, GraceKennedy Group Ltd saw an 11 per cent rise in total revenues from $79.42 billion in 2015 to $88.27 billion, supported by an increase in sales in all geographical areas except the United Kingdom, where the devaluation of the pound sterling made an impact.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 711’s trading results showed consideration of $8,697,638 from 239,692 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 710’s trading results, which showed consideration of $37,993,646 from 384,128 shares traded in 16 transactions. 

Trading in fruit and vegetables on Merriman Mall

The ups and downs of our fruit and vegetable market

In recent weeks the vagaries of the prevailing weather patterns have seen prices at some of our greens and vegetable markets take off on a rollercoaster ride, though the surfeit of farm produce that has been brought to market very recently has seen a high level of spoilage as bargains continue to far outstrip demand.

Empowering women in business

Entrepreneur Managing Director, GeoTechVision Chairperson Small Business Council Increasingly women are in charge of growing thriving businesses.

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