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At 33, and 18 years after harvesting honey for the first time, Devon Gilead is still seeking a breakthrough from his present position as a micro-business owner in the bee products industry.

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Setting aside the role that packaging and labelling play in protecting product identity, they also serve, critically, to help develop product and brand image and enhance visibility in target markets, Beverley Hirst, Managing Director of Jamaican product promotion firm Prism Communications told Stabroek Business during an interview earlier this week.

Guyana’s bauxite industry continues to be “stagnated” and facing “serious challenges” despite an increase in exports, according to Natural Resources and Environment Minister Robert Persaud.

April will mark three years since Suriname Airways launched its passenger service between Georgetown and Miami and Head of its administrative operations in Guyana Rudi Westerborg believes that his country’s national airline is still to realize its full potential as far as fostering relations between the two countries is concerned.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 599’s trading results showed consideration of $1,348,103 from 8,675 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 598’s trading results, which showed consideration of $170,670 from 4,190 shares traded in 4 transactions.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 22, 2015 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

(Trinidad Express) – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has told energy heads that the government remains committed to keeping employment levels up despite global issues with low crude oil prices.

Evidence of increasing lawlessness in mining communities in Guyana, which is characterized by heightened levels of violence that have led to loss of life appears to have elicited no new official measures aimed at correcting the situation.

More than a year after its establishment, Creditinfo Guyana is still not quite where it wants to be in terms of its targeted goals, though its Chief Executive Officer Judy Semple-Joseph told Stabroek Business earlier this week that some services are available.

Bargain bazaar: It may be quite a trek (particularly in bad weather) to get to the western extreme of Stabroek Market (the area closest to the Demerara River) but once you get there you discover that the area offers a bazaar of its own where fruit, vegetables, fish, groceries and even items of clothing are offered for sale in abundance and where not a few attractive bargains can be had.

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Still pondering: Up to yesterday there was still a great deal of uncertainty as to whether the government’s decision to drop fuel prices at GuyOil gas stations would have an impact on minibus and taxi fares.

This week’s announcement by Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh that fuel prices at GuyOil pumps would have been reduced by Wednesday could have come earlier, though the fact that it has come at all is a blessing for both ordinary consumers and for the business community as a whole.

Mud Lot on Access Road in Kingston is usually a quiet, virtually deserted area in North Georgetown, and one you probably would not associate with the hustle and bustle of commerce or traffic.

The continued decline in the price of gold on the world market sends a clear signal to countries like Guyana that a point has long been reached where assurances of economic growth can only be realized by embarking on programmes aimed at significantly encouraging the growth of value-added industries.

With the Caribbean under pressure not only to significantly reduce its multi-billion-dollar food import bill but also to increase its market share for food exports to North America and Europe a new partnership would appear to be emerging to help propel the region’s food and beverage industry.

The portents, even this early in the year, suggest that 2015 could be an even tougher year for the gold-mining industry than 2014.

As economic turmoil in Venezuela grows, the Guyana government’s reticence on the future of the PetroCaribe agreement is passing strange, observers say.