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.
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.
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.
Maxwell Nurse concedes that when he embarked on his first entrepreneurial venture, M&M Graphics in the late 1990s his knowledge of the essentials of running a business was limited to a decidedly deficient understanding of the concept of making a ‘mark up.’
Co-proprietor of the multi-service enterprise operating under the trading name Solutions Pro, Marlon George, is currently engaged in initiatives designed to consolidate the business entity which was created in February 2014 and which, he believes, still has a considerable road to travel.
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Dale Forde is one of a number of farmers from various areas of coastal Guyana who credit the Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL) project with seeing her through some of the toughest times she has had to face.
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.
STEMGuyana is a big idea whose time has come and it was created to expose Guyanese students to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and the Arts) education in a fun and engaging way.
Modest entrepreneurial initiatives arising out of a growing inclination towards self-employment has given rise to the need for appropriate business training for the investors.
Prohibitive tariff and non-tariff barriers for trade between China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continue to seriously inhibit the prospects for the export of both agricultural and manufactured goods to the world’s single largest market, according to a recently concluded study done by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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.
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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.
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.