Eileen Cox

World Standards Day Message The world is facing a critical challenge.

Consumer Concern Recently much attention has been paid to the protection of children.

Consumer Concerns September 20-26, 2009 was regarded as Child Protection Week.

To change an established street name is not something which is ever lightly done in any civilized country.

The scales are balanced heavily against local consumers when they purchase local fruit.

Consumer Concerns Three years ago house owners in the coastal region of Georgetown were warned not to engage in elaborate house repairs as the rising Atlantic Ocean would sweep away coastal houses 20 years on.

Consumer Concerns As children, our parents instilled in us certain sayings that were meant to guide us through life.

Consumer Concerns Dr Ian McDonald’s article in last Sunday Stabroek, August 23, should serve as a wake-up call for those who, like me, tend to avoid reading the horrific details of the crimes now emerging in our society.

Consumer Concerns The Guyana National Bureau of Standards monitors twenty-four commodities under its Standard Compliance programme.

Consumer Concerns Georgetown Average Commodity Prices for Period 2001-May 2009 Note: Currently the prices for loose milk and sweet potato are not available.

Consumer Concerns The Special Select Committee of the National Assembly earlier this year invited submissions dealing with the impact of global food price increases.

Consumer Concerns   PUC Order No 1/2009 has just been received and is as follows:-   “The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Co has filed an application on May 14tn 2008, seeking to introduce a new service called NEXUS that, it claims, will allow subscribers/consumers who so desire to have a prepaid service and to manage credits from a single prepaid account in such a way that these credits can be utilized for wire line and mobile calls.

The Allied Health Professions Bill The Parliament Office has been advertising the Allied Health Professions Bill 2009, which was committed to a Special Select Committee of the National Assembly.

Consumer  Concerns It was surprising to receive invitations for two functions for Thursday, July 2, on the occasion of the 30th Regular Meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community.

Consumers are contributing to the blockages in the sewerage systemAn attempt to find out the date when the Georgetown sewerage system was started has failed.

Consumer Concerns In the March 2009 No: 3 issue of Gapevine the newsletter of the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers, there is an article on cardboard cooking.

NBS is inviting low-income consumers with land to take up mortgages with them The New Building Society Ltd is inviting low-income consumers with tracts of land to take up mortgages with them.

Labelling and the cigarette industry The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) will be hosting a public consultation on “Specification for the labelling of retail packages of tobacco products” on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 from 8:30h to 12:00h at Hotel Tower, Main Street, Georgetown, where a decision will be made on the new and improved Guyana standards for the packaging and labelling of tobacco products in Guyana.

Standards are vital for export According to Mr Lloyd David, Public Relations Officer of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards, adherence to standards is very important when producing consumer goods for export, and these standards facilitate trade. 

Consumer Concerns President Jagdeo publicly signed The Evidence and Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2008 on May 22 this year.