Starting afresh

By Rawle Lucas On In Business |
LUCAS STOCK INDEX LSI The LSI rose 0.21 percent to 153.99 in trading in the second week of January 2012. Positive movement was caused by the stocks of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) which gained 2.8 percent while the stock price of Caribbean Container Incorporated (CCI) declined by 6.25 percent. The stocks of Banks DIH (DIH) remained unchanged from the previous week. As a result, the LSI recorded a second week of gain to keep the index moving in an upward direction.
LUCAS STOCK INDEX LSI The LSI rose 0.21 percent to 153.99 in trading in the second week of January 2012. Positive movement was caused by the stocks of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) which gained 2.8 percent while the stock price of Caribbean Container Incorporated (CCI) declined by 6.25 percent. The stocks of Banks DIH (DIH) remained unchanged from the previous week. As a result, the LSI recorded a second week of gain to keep the index moving in an upward direction.

Focusing

Belated New Year’s greetings to all Guyanese and in particular to the readers of the Stabroek News and its Business Section!

As is the case each year, the New Year comes with hopes and expectations in our hearts and in our minds.  It comes with offers of goodwill, good health and prosperity to family, friends and neighbours.  And, so it is with 2012.  The big hearts and positive spirits of Guyanese temporarily set aside the disappointments, the bickering, the conflicts and the sorrows of the old year over things important and trivial and embraced the prospects that the new one holds.  Now, the New Year is 13 days old and the path forward might already be clear for some and not so for others.  Many persons might simply be trying to catch-up having exerted themselves at the various celebrations and social gatherings to which they were invited over the long festive season.

Resolutions

Irrespective of the condition of the mind, body and soul from the cumulative effect of the festivities, time marches on.  It waits for no one, whether one is ready or not, whether one is young or