Business

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.

In a quite unexpected way, the Giftland Mall may have become a victim of its own success.

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.

(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.

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.

With the need to attract high value external markets (HVMs) for Guyana’s agricultural produce having long been high on the list of priorities of the country’s export sector, the Canadian-funded initiative titled Promotion of Regional Opportunities through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL) project has already made an important footprint in the journey towards that goal.

By his own admission, Miro Westmaas’s earliest encounter with the ancient, oriental healing practice of acupuncture came about on account of his own personal need for physical, psychological and spiritual healing, resulting from what he says were unwise lifestyle options.

A properly incentivized work force whose rights are respected and whose workplace security and material needs are being met is critical to a stable economy and to the prosperity of the nation as a whole, Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) General Secretary Lincoln Lewis told Stabroek Business shortly after emerging from last week’s meeting of a trade union movement that continues to be fractured by divisions many of which have their origins in political differences.

Initiatives designed to create a bigger pool of financial resources into which startup, early-stage and growth businesses in the Caribbean can dip to consolidate their growth and expansion received a significant boost earlier this week when the World Bank Group, together with the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), launched LINK-Caribbean, an investment facilitation programme designed to enable early-stage regional entrepreneurs to raise capital from private investors.

The local information and communication technology service provider Starr Computers is to accelerate its focus on creating a technology learning centre inside its Brickdam complex for the purpose of helping to prepare the next generation of local ‘techies’ for the task of meeting the requirements of serving Guyana in the “demanding technology age that lies ahead,” the company’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Mohan has told Stabroek Business.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Banks are tightening the security of their SWIFT messaging networks – used by the industry to shift trillions of dollars each day – following revelations that hackers are increasingly able to get into this system to steal money.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 688’s trading results showed consideration of $1,387,531 from 4,584 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 687’s trading results, which showed consideration of 12,660,375 from 196,803 shares traded in 12 transactions.