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From left to right, members of the Gadget box team - Shivan Ramdhanie; Christin Parma; Cathy-Ann Radix; Lynda Sirju; Jeevan Persad
From left to right, members of the Gadget box team – Shivan Ramdhanie; Christin Parma; Cathy-Ann Radix; Lynda Sirju; Jeevan Persad

UWI team building ‘Gadget Box’ for use in STEM education

By Karen Abrams, MBA Co-Founder, STEMGuyana   The University of the West Indies (UWI) Department of Electrical and Computer Science Team has an idea for STEM education in Trinidad and Tobago and it could potentially benefit the entire Caribbean.

Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday October 13, 2016                      Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Amy’s Pomeroon Coffee targeting ministries to push brand recognition

Focused on exploiting the broadest possible range of marketing techniques to promote the locally manufactured Amy’s Pomeroon Coffee (APC), Chief Executive Officer of Amy’s Pomeroon Foods Inc Louis Holder has embarked on an exercise aimed at popularizing the product at government ministries and other state-run entities.

Prices Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation

(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.

Simona Broomes

Broomes wants Guyana to exploit opportunities from China Mining Congress

Exposure to international events that focus on current developments in the global gold-mining industry can help accelerate the growth of Guyana’s own mining sector particularly through the acquisition of technology and investment, Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes has told the Stabroek Business.

Khemwattie Ramnarine watering plants in the nursery section of the shade house

Canadian-funded PROPEL project backing Khemwattie Ramnarine’s growing shade house farming venture

It may take some time before efforts to focus the attention of women and young people on agriculture as an entrepreneurial option take traction, but Marissa Lowden, Gender Equity and Youth and Marketing Programme Officer for the Canadian-funded Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL) believes that satisfying progress is being made.

Market prices

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

Restoring UG

Those who know even a little about the career of recently appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana Professor Ivelaw Griffith, may well be persuaded that he is what one might call ‘the right fit’ for the job as Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana.

We have put a dent in gold smuggling, Trotman says

While the Government of Guyana is optimistic that gold production for this year could reach 600,000 ounces, there is every likelihood that gold smuggling persists despite official efforts to curb the practice, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has told Stabroek Business.

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