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From its inception the announcement last year regarding the imminent introduction of parking meters had always been met with a public response that reflected as a priority concern the issue of affordability.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 09, 2017

Guyana’s painfully ponderous journey towards a vibrant and lucrative tourism industry notwithstanding, newly elected President of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) Andrea de Caires is upbeat about the prospects for the sector.

This week’s initiative at Imbaimadai in the Cuyuni-Mazaruni District to mobilize miners without claims into groups known as syndicates will be extended to other regions of the country as part of government’s plan to broaden access to mining lands and by extension to the economic opportunities afforded by the mining sector.

This is the sixth of an eight-part series on changes to labour employment in the future, causes of this upheaval, and some possible measures to mitigate their disruptive effects.

Governments all around the world, with a few rare exceptions, have been notoriously bad at preparing and inspiring innovative technology business leaders and innovators.

When Stabroek Business met with 85-year-old Bernard ‘Bonnie’ Young at Henrietta on the Essequibo Coast last weekend he was ‘chilling’ in his fifth floor apartment at the Arabian Atlantic Hotel looking out into the ocean from which it borrowed its name.

With several regional banking institutions yet to put in place Inter Governmental Agreements (IGAs) with the United States on that country’s Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), the Caribbean Association of Banks is again urging Caribbean countries to enact the necessary legislation for the implementation of FATCA.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday February 2, 2017  

For more than 20 years, Desiree McKenzie has been making her way to the Bourda Market three or four times a week to run her modest stall offering an assortment of books and magazines for sale.

*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

Accelerated moves towards a thaw in relations between Havana and Washington (though we must wait and see how the relationship unfolds under the Donald Trump administration) have triggered consequential developments here in the Caribbean where a number of Caricom countries are beginning to take a closer look at the economic opportunities that might be on offer in a liberalized Cuban economy.

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Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 26, 2017