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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. 

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Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday September 29, 2016Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

We can probably anticipate an animated reply from the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) to the forthright comment made by Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) President Vishnu Doerga on the 10 per cent salary increase in public servants salaries offered by the Government of Guyana and which the union says it rejects.

The key Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the governments of Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago under which the latter will provide various forms of support to the oil and gas sector in Guyana is likely to be signed before the end of this year, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has told the Stabroek Business.

A long-awaited progress report on the work of the Small Business Bureau (SBB) including a crucial assessment of the qualitative progress being made by the body in supporting the development of small businesses that were recipients of grants from the Guyana Redd+ fund under the Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) project is likely to be available soon, according to newly appointed Chairperson of the Small Business Council, (SBC) Valrie Grant.

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Current Managing Director of Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd Richard Sammy has been talking up both the success of the entity’s banking operations in Guyana as well as the bank’s contribution to the growth of the business sector here.

By Karen Abrams Co-founder STEM – Guyana When our four children were very young, my husband and I had two priorities in educating them. 

Berlinda Duncan-Persaud is the Chief Executive Officer of Cheereemee Marketing Agency and Cacique Designs and a craftswoman of considerable talent.

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One of the things that came clearly across in this newspaper’s interview earlier this week with Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman was the need to separate the idealistic wishful thinking that used to (and still does) inform public discourse about such prospects that might arise as a result of an oil discovery from the very different reality that obtains now that we are actually on the verge of becoming an oil-producing nation.

Convinced that Guyana’s tourism product has the potential to be a game-changer in the growth of the Guyana economy, Roraima Airways is in the process of investing some US$3 million in staffing and infrastructure.

Removing some of the country’s critical barriers to the realization of an internationally competitive economy requires a greater sense of urgency on the parts of both the public and private sectors, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has told the Stabroek Business.

The passage of time and the unfolding evidence of some crucial directions in which Guyana’s development appears to be heading underscores the importance of the country’s aviation sector and more particularly the Eugene F.

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