One of the historic failures of Guyana’s development strategy, over the years reposes in its failure of government to fashion a well-structured and efficiently executed ‘campaign’ to strengthen ties between Guyanese residing in the diaspora and their home country.
By Dale Beresford A cursory glance at common safety procedures and protocols employed by home owners and small businesses in relation to the protection of their homes and business premises ought to give rise to a healthy degree of worry.
When, having completed his secondary school education, Jonathan ‘Lil Red’ King’s mother, the popular Guyanese entertainer Michelle ‘Big Red’ King suggested that he “find a job,” the amiable and articulate Jonathan embraced her urging as a personal challenge, except that contrary to what might have been her expectation, he had no plans to join the ranks of the salaried employees.
Picture this: a classroom of students working collaboratively on a challenging science- or maths-based problem with an open-ended solution.
The Stabroek Business has seen a media release issued by the Guyanese-American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) urging governments and private sector groupings in the region to take immediate action to help influence United States congressional approval of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) “for at least another ten years” once it expires on September 30th, 2020.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 14, 2019Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
The new Guyana Marketing Corportation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.
One of the positive elements in the recently released Report on last September’s Guyana Trade and Investment Exhibition (GUYTIE) staged at the Marriott Hotel jointly by the public and private sectors with the support of Caribbean Export is that it openly concedes that, for all sorts of reasons, it felt short of what might have been expected.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 812’s trading results showed consideration of $21,633,635 from 146,211 shares traded in 41 transactions as compared to session 811’s trading results which showed consideration of $4,498,767 from 47,106 shares traded in 16 transactions.
The high Caribbean-wide demand for ‘well-seasoned, spicy foods’ and the evident market potential deriving therefrom is pushing established and emerging agro-processors in Guyana in the direction of creating food seasonings and pepper sauces in the direction of being more accommodating of those preferences, the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) says in a recently released statement.
A total of 210,650 commuters rely on privately operated minibuses, the backbone of the country’s public transport service, to meet their daily transportation needs, according to figures provided by the United Minibus Union (UMU) and seen by this newspaper.
For as far back as local chocolate lovers can remember, the name Cadbury has always been associated with the product.
Arguably the most poignant of the rationale articulated in the “Publisher’s Note” for the emergence of Who’s Who In Guyana Business is the unending dilemma of “both local and foreign investors who lose a lot of time, energy and money due to not understanding the intricacies of the local business landscape.”
Conditions of service for employees of the majority Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana of Guyana Inc.
There appears to be no end to the profusion of creativity and inventiveness that pervades Guyana’s manufacturing sector, particularly in the area of condiment and beverage production, though the limited rewards for what continues to be the sustained and mostly successful efforts of the producers continue to be undermined by the customer limitations of the local market and the difficulties which locally manufactured products have been experiencing in breaking into overseas markets.
It is generally accepted that the trajectory of our schools’ curriculum still requires more than just a bit of ‘tweaking’ to better prepare it to meet the developmental challenges of the twenty-first century.
There is still no telling how much longer it will take for a Code of Conduct for Minibus Operators to materialise, notwithstanding the evident urgency of the need to raise service delivery standards in the privately- run public transport sector.
Guyana’s coconut industry may still have a long road to travel if earnings from the sector are to impact meaningfully on the country’s economy, but the portents for coconut and coconut by product sales on the global market in the period are sufficiently encouraging to justify the renewed interest in the sector by both farmers and investors.
*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corportation or Ministry of Agriculture.
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