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Gold Prices for the three-day period  ending Thursday September 15, 2016                    Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

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Even as the role of coconut continues to grow in significance, the recent revelation that regional supplies of the fruit may be dwindling to the detriment of the continually expanding demand for its by-products is one that must be taken seriously, Raymond Trotz, Chairman of the National Coconut Stakeholders Platform told Stabroek Business.

The four female vendors who had agreed to leave their consignments of fruit and vegetables unprotected and walk the two blocks west along Robb Street to engage the Stabroek Business on their unceremonious eviction from their trading spots on Robb Street between Alexander Street and Bourda Street seemed calm but pensive when they arrived at the newspaper’s office just after night had fallen.

The announcement here last year that ExxonMobil has located significant deposits of crude oil offshore Guyana has evoked a considerable level of interest both inside and outside Guyana, the most recent expression of interest in the likely implications of the oil find for the Guyana economy coming from Dr.

What Guyana Trades Union Congress General Secretary Lincoln Lewis has described as “probably the most serious engagement between government and the labour movement under the APNU+AFC administration”, on Wednesday may well have paved the way for “more meaningful and constructive discussions on issues pertaining to some key issues including the extractive sector, the environment and welfare, the veteran trade unionist told Stabroek Business.

The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) continues to promote the exportation of non- traditional agricultural commodities.

By Karen Abrams, MBA Co-Founder, STEMGuyana Public and private organizations in Guyana are learning that the best cure for exposure on social media is transparency and professionalism.

For Gail-Ann Gouveia it’s a long journey from gathering crabwood seeds on the forest floor at Three Brothers Village in the Waini River to having her Waini Secrets Crabwood Oil Soaps appear on shelves in shops in downtown Port-of-Spain.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 685’s trading results showed consideration of $1,002,679 from 25,321 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 684’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,422,364 from 48,203 shares traded in 11 transactions. 

(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.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 08, 2016 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

The Bourda vendors who ply their trade on Robb Street between Alexander Street and Orange Walk may have been given a directive to resume trading yesterday after being subjected to two successive days of loss of earnings but that does nothing to conceal the continually deteriorating relationship between City Hall and the urban vending community, on the one hand, and on the other the patently quixotic management style of the new municipal regime in matters pertaining to addressing the issue of vending in the capital and more.

Already existing tendencies towards an anti-worker posture in some sections of the extractive sector ought to send clear signals to government regarding its obligation to make new arrivals in the oil and gas and gold-mining sectors, particularly, aware of the laws of Guyana that protect workers from abuse and accord them the right to trade union representation.

With the initial twenty five-year contract between the Government of Guyana and Barama Company Limited due to expire on October 16, the absence of any clarity, up to this time, on the renewal or otherwise of the contract could send more than seven hundred  Guyanese employed with the company on the breadline in a matter of weeks, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has told the Stabroek Business.

It would not have come as a surprise to those with a reasonable knowledge of the characteristics and behaviour of the oil industry that the commencement of offshore oil production will not coincide with the creation of a surfeit of jobs for Guyanese.

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