Business

There are several things that are wrong with the failure of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago to have not invited officials from the local private sector to its “Guyana Safety Forum” ostensibly staged to address safety interests and which was reportedly dominated by companies from the twin-island Republic.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 847’s trading results showed consideration of $2,305,330 from 15,295 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 846’s trading results which showed consideration of $7,551,714 from 41,287 shares traded in 16 transactions.

If he didn’t say you would probably not guess that Chris Persaud has built one of Guyana’s most successful agro-processing companies “from scratch.”

With alarm bells now pealing deafeningly in response to a continuous wave of road accidents and attendant multiple casualties, a local training company has signalled its intention to intervene shortly with a view to working with road users in an effort to roll back the carnage.

Regional participants in the September 26th – 28th 4th CARIFORUM-EU Business Forum held in Frankfurt, Germany are reportedly rating the event as a considerable success particularly in the light of what, reportedly was the strong Caribbean presence at the event.

Having long endured the stigma of being associated with one of the world’s worst man-made disasters, the March 24, 1989, oil spill during which its recovery ship, the Exxon Valdez, emptied  almost eleven million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, it has taken years for ExxonMobil, one of the world’s unquestioned oil exploration and recovery powerhouses to work its way back to some measure of global respectability as far as its global safety reputation is concerned; and while, even now, the jury is still out in some quarters on the environmental bona fides of the company, the reality is that the global significance of oil coupled with ExxonMobil’s credentials in what is arguably one of the world’s most critical economic sectors, means that whatever the purist perspective of the hard-core environmentalists, the company’s strategic importance to the overall well-being of the global oil and gas industry cannot be wished away.

Over the seven years of its existence the Guyana Shop has, perhaps surprisingly,  positioned itself as arguably, the foremost promoter of the nation’s agricultural sector, not least, the spinoffs that derive from the agro- processing sub sector.

The global measures implemented under the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on money laundering, well-intentioned though they may be, are beginning to have a constricting effect on the operations of some key and critical social support measures in the Caribbean, not least non-profit organisations designed to provide timely responses to emergency circumstances arising out of natural disasters in the region.

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It is not often that the country’s major Business Support Organizations (BSO’s) pay focussed attention specifically to women in business.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 847’s trading results showed consideration of $7,551,714 from 41,287 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 846’s trading results which showed consideration of $26,599,166 from 88,068 shares traded in 12 transactions.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Berbice rice-milling giant Nand Persaud and Company, Mahendra Persaud has told the Stabroek Business that his company regards the collaborative initiative with the University of Guyana to create a new Soil Testing Laboratory at the University’s Tain Campus as much more than just another philanthropic undertaking.

USAID Farmer to Farmer Volunteer, Ohio State University Professor Melvin Pascall earlier this week told the Stabroek Business that the prospects for Guyana’s agro-processing sector on the international market depend heavily on the sector raising its game insofar as the packaging and labeling of its products is concerned.

Texila American Univer-sity (TAU) has moved to expand its curriculum base from its Providence, East Bank Demerara Campus in Guyana, with the launch of its Bachelor’s (BBA) and Masters’ (MBA) programmes in Business Administration.

The portents for a global food crisis may already be looming large as climate change unleashes a multi-faceted onslaught on the food production system according to a report from the Inter- governmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) a United Nations body dedicated to providing an objective, scientific perspective on climate change, its natural political and economic impacts and risks and possible response options.

Having in recent years secured a string of breakthroughs that have transformed its status from that of an illicit narcotic that could land you in jail to a medicinal herb that has attracted the attention of medical researchers and investors in metropolitan countries, marijuana may well be on its way to taking another game-changing step towards full-fledged societal acceptability.