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The once thriving Buxton Market persists through episodes of community stigmatization and tragedy which the proud and prominent East Coast Demerara village has had to endure.

STILL ON THE JOB: Workers on this Robb & Camp streets construction site where the Town Clerk had issued a stop  work order after it had been determined that the relevant documentation from the City Engineer’s Department had not been secured were seen at work (atop the partially erected structure) yesterday.

While an official figure for Guyana’s 2015 gold production is yet to be declared Stabroek Business has learnt that the final figure could be somewhere between 420,000 ounces and 450,000 ounces, a significant increase in the declared production figure of 387,000 ounces in 2014.

More than a month after a team from the Ministry of Social Protection toured the operations of the majority Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) in the Berbice River, a report from the ministry says the standards and value systems of the company in key areas of employer/employee relations including respect for workers’ rights and occupational safety and health are “unacceptable by any measure.”

The Government of Guyana finds itself in the somewhat peculiar position of having inherited from its predecessor what is a decidedly bad situation as far as worker-management relations at the partially state-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) is concerned.

By: Valrie Grant, Managing Director GeoTechVision This column in the past series of articles, highlighted the economic benefits that can be had from embedding spatial information in the economic development processes.

It is as yet unclear whether the Keith Rowley administration will face a backlash from this week’s announced decision to suspend the distribution of free textbooks to the majority of students in Trinidad and Tobago in an effort to cut costs across the board.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 648’s trading results showed consideration of $221,603 from 11,783 shares traded in 2 transactions as compared to session 647’s trading results, which showed consideration of $9,491,809 from 112,619 shares traded in 7 transactions.

Close to the Amerindian Hostel on Princes Street, a group of enterprising representatives Guyana’s indigenous community can be found been doing a brisk trade in Amerindian cuisine, mimicking the urban tradition of roadside trading in conventional creole foods.

Chief Executive Officer of NICIL Winston Brassington said he believes that over time the Marriott Hotel will come to be a significant asset to Guyana and to its accommodation industry.

By Vijay Datadin Vijay Datadin is a GIS Specialist. A Chevening Scholar, he holds an MSc in GIS from Edinburgh University, UK A modern, powerful technology called Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was the focus of a grassroots-organized event on the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus in November this year.

The Government of Guyana may be weighing its options in the matter of the liquidation of the debt associated with the outstanding payment of US$5 million due on the agreed price of US$30 million for its 25 per cent stake in the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company.

With seasonal shopping for food having intensified significantly in the days leading up to Christmas, the Government Analyst Food & Drug Department (GA-FDD) this week issued yet another warning regarding standards associated with the sale of powdered milk on the local market.

Against the background of mounting concern over the increase in the number of site accidents and fatalities in the country’s mining sector, the Guyana Mining School and Training Centre Inc (GMSTC) has announced that its regime of training, beginning in January next year, will embrace occupational safety and health directly related to “predicting and monitoring the possible potential of a mining pit collapsing.”

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday  December 25, 2015

Inside a Robb Street store

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 647’s trading results showed consideration of $9,491,809 from 112,619 shares traded in 7 transactions as compared to session 646’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,474,100 from 22,705 shares traded in 12 transactions.

Customer Service: Stabroek Business took this ‘dressed up’ photograph of Starr Computers staff on Wednesday preparing to hit the floor with their hi- tech offerings.