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Private sector officials blast city businesses over garbage dumping
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

Mc Lean labels practice ‘corporate vulgarity’ Two senior officials of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) have launched a scathing attack on what they say is the worsening practice by businesses in the urban commercial sector of dumping garbage on... Read more »

Small Business – the central front in the fight against poverty
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 7 Comments
By Rawle Lucas Fight against poverty There is plenty of excitement about the potential of micro and small businesses to help people get out of poverty. The global enthusiasm for micro and small businesses became noticeable after the Grameen Bank, a... Read more »

By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 0 Comments
By Rowland Fletcher - Agronomist The Savannah Dream: When American businessman Stan Greene of Global Agri notoriety arrived in Guyana sometime in 1969, with a grandiose plan in his briefcase to convert the Kibilibiri Savannahs into a major grain (corn... Read more »

Omai, GGMC to sign US$2M Eagle Mountain exploration pact
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 7 Comments

Omai Gold Mines Limited (OGML) and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) are expected to conclude an agreement shortly under which Omai will pursue mineral exploration at Eagle Mountain in the Potaro area. Omai Human Resources Manager Norman... Read more »

Hansib to engage government on school texts
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

Says book pirating sends negative signals to investors The United Kingdom-based publishing company Hansib secured more than G$2m in book sales during the period of Carifesta 2008, according to Arif Ali, the company’s owner. Hansib proprietor Arif Ali The... Read more »

The Hansib proposal
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 0 Comments
Mr Arif Ali, a Guyanese who migrated to the United Kingdom more than half a century ago and who, during that time, has become the most successful publisher of Caribbean origin in Europe, has openly made the Government of Guyana an interesting proposal. Before... Read more »

Cartoon
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

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Giftland on-line store seen as impetus to intra-regional trade
By Staff | Friday, August 29, 2008 | 10 Comments

The promotion of intra-regional commerce as a mechanism for accelerating the CARICOM Single Market process is one of the key goals of the new on-line shopping service launched by Giftland Office Max, according to the company’s President Roy Beepat,... Read more »

Illegal mining areas to be cut from OMAI property
By Staff | Friday, August 29, 2008 | 0 Comments

This section of Omai property was never mined by the company but was despoiled by rogue miners. Company concerned about its environmental image –Mc Lean Mining areas previously occupied by Omai Gold Mines Ltd (OMGL) and which have been illegally... Read more »

Too many hurdles to small business development
By Staff | Friday, August 29, 2008 | 5 Comments
- GSBA President The establishment of a Credit Bureau to help provide funding for the development of small and incubating businesses remains one of the main hurdles to the creation of a thriving small business sector in Guyana, according to President... Read more »

The Business Cartoon
By Staff | Friday, August 29, 2008 | 0 Comments

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Pirating text books is common theft
By Staff | Friday, August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment
The wholesale copying and resale of published school texts is one of the many distasteful facets of copyright infringement in Guyana today. The ‘pirates’ - as they have come to be known in Guyana - simply purchase single copies of the various texts... Read more »

Prospects for sustainable agro-industrial investment in the Upper Berbice River sub-region
By Staff | Friday, August 29, 2008 | 0 Comments
Part 2 By Roland Fletcher Previously we considered the economic plight of income earners in the Upper Berbice River communities and the opportunities availed by some pioneering and commercially oriented riverain farmers to legitimize their occupancy and... Read more »

Private Sector - looking inwards
By Staff | Friday, August 29, 2008 | 0 Comments
No monolith (Rawle Lucas is a Guyanese-born Certified Public Accountant and Assistant Vice President of the Lending Services Division. Mr. Lucas has agreed to serve as a columnist with the Stabroek Business and will be contributing articles on economic,... Read more »

Gov’t must end pirating of school texts
By Staff | Friday, August 29, 2008 | 0 Comments

-UK-based Guyanese publisher ‘We cannot steal to educate our children’ Guyanese-born publisher Arif Ali has launched a withering attack on the practice of copyright infringement in Guyana and has said that the onus is on government to take action... Read more »

Stock market updates
By Staff | Friday, August 29, 2008 | 0 Comments

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 266’s trading results showed consideration of $2,114,011 from 111,172 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 265 which showed consideration of $2,285,327 from 218,596... Read more »

Chamber to shun businesses with drug, counterfeiting links
By Staff | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment

Strategic Plan to target tax reform A new four-year Strategic and Opera-tional Plan unveiled by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Wednesday lists the formal screening of membership applications to seek to determine possible links... Read more »

Ogle airport project continues to hit hurdles
By Staff | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 6 Comments

Controversy may be brewing between the Government of Guyana and the four private aircraft owners comprising Ogle Airport Inc following a decision by cabinet which threatens to further delay the creation of Guyana’s second international airport. An aerial... Read more »

Development of the ICT sector – In pursuit of sustainable competitive advantage
By Administrator | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 4 Comments
By Andre Griffith Last week we looked briefly at what is commonly referred to locally as the ICT sector. We noted that this sector may perhaps have been better referred as a sector for outsourced services, but nevertheless noted that Information and... Read more »

Prospects for sustainable agro-industrial development in the upper Berbice River sub-region
By Administrator | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 0 Comments
– A Stabroek Business Column dedicated to the ventilation of ideas pertaining to the current global food crisis and the response by Guyana and the Caribbean The current national focus on agro-industrial development as a response to the global and worsening... Read more »

UNDP/Small Business Association collaborate
By Staff | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 9 Comments

East Coast project seeks to heal social wounds, boost business A collaborative effort involving the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Guyana Small Business Association (GSBA) has extended support to twenty-seven micro businesses in four... Read more »

Business Cartoon
By Staff | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 0 Comments

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Stock market updates
By Administrator | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 0 Comments
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 265’s trading results showed consideration of $2,285,327 from 218,596 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 264 which showed consideration of $1,314,985 from 40,391... Read more »

Actualizing plans on paper
By Staff | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 0 Comments
Up until now the Four Year Strategic and Operational Plan ‘rolled out’ by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) last Wednesday is exactly what it says it is – a Plan, an ambitious and forward-looking Plan but a Plan, nonetheless;... Read more »

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