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Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver. It runs a website Kitco.com for gold news, commentary and market information.
Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver. It runs a website Kitco.com for gold news, commentary and market information.

Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday  August 6, 2015

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 627’s trading results showed consideration of $6,012,888 from 82,274 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 626’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,144,497 from 7,029 shares traded in 10 transactions.

Simona Broomes

Broomes rolls up her sleeves over labour infractions

Public and private sector workplaces will come under closer official scrutiny, Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection Simona Broomes told Stabroek Business earlier this week, adding that her ministry will be exercising much greater vigilance in matters that have to do with the safety and health of workers.

Tough Times: Linden Snackette operator Debbie Khan preparing for the trading day in the Wismar Market last weekend

River festival fails to distract from economic woes

On the basis of the available evidence, the organizers of last weekend’s Linden River Front Festival would almost certainly have fallen short of persuading residents to buy into the vision of the once thriving mining town being able to offer a tourism option.

The President and the rice industry

It is evidently not by accident that in one of his relatively early public presentations substantively connected to the country’s economy President David Granger has signalled his concern for the challenges confronting the rice industry and his government’s interest in supporting the sector in its anticipated response to the problem.

GIS in Healthcare

By Valrie Grant, Managing Director, GeoTechVision   Over 160 years ago, in 1854, an English physician, John Snow, provided the classic example of how mapping can be used in epidemiological research.

GuyExpo, Go-Invest relevant to investment, business pursuits – Gaskin

In response to concerns expressed by small vendors who customarily cash in on the annual GuyExpo event, Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin has told the Stabroek Business that the APNU/+FC coalition administration has no intention of removing what has become a highly popular and – for the small and micro business sector – a lucrative one-off market opportunity – from the country’s events’ calendar.

Derrick Cummings

$131M in grants disbursed under Low Carbon MSED initiative

Beneficiaries of funding under the state-run Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) project aimed at assisting vulnerable groups to create alternative livelihoods are now unlikely to satisfy a key original target set out in the project’s conditionalities, Derrick Cummings, former chief executive officer of the Small Business Bureau, the agency responsible for managing the project has told Stabroek Business.

A Caribbean Airlines plane on the ground at Piarco (Trinidad Express photo/Curtis Chase)

CAL signs deal with Emirates

(Trinidad Express) – Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has signed an interline deal with the world’s largest international airline-Emirates, which promises to make it easier for customers to travel the world.

Venezuela’s rice farmers must sell to state outlets

Against the backdrop of the disclosure that Venezuela will no longer be acquiring rice from Guyana under the PetroCaribe Agreement after November this year, it has been disclosed that as part of the alternative arrangements being made by the Maduro administration to fill the demand gap, rice farmers in the economically challenged Bolivarian Republic will be required to sell between 30% and 100% of their output to official state outlets.

JACS Snackette, Bakery and Guest House Manager Jacqueline Smith

JACS: Symbolizing Linden’s will to survive

Jacqueline Ann Camille Smith (the first letters of her full name spell out the trading name of the business that she operates) defines the economic tailspin that has plagued Linden for more than a decade in terms to which she can personally relates as a businessperson.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 626’s trading results showed consideration of $1,144,497 from 7,029 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 625’s trading results, which showed consideration of $4,353,953 from 177,616 shares traded in 15 transactions.

Remembering African Heritage

Every year about this time, a small group of skilled craftswomen display an impressive array of African fashion in the Main Street Avenue, close to Courts Guyana Inc.

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