Business

In 2015, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) data for 2011–2014 showed that non-traditional exports averaged 0.6% of all Guyana’s exports.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)The New Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

At Moco Moco village in Region Nine, Central Rupununi opportunities for sustainable employment are few and far between.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 794’s trading results showed consideration of $10,293,428 from 141,832 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 793’s trading results which showed consideration of $32,677,425 from 213,163 shares traded in 12 transactions.

Against the backdrop of the frustrating ‘on-off’ relationship that has obtained between government and the private sector for many years, one has every right to wonder aloud as to precisely how we should interpret the recent media release from the Private Sector Commission (PSC) arising out of its meeting with President David Granger.

The Secretary of the Linden Chamber of Commerce, Staydon Payne is under no illusions about what it will take to place Linden on a viable entrepreneurial footing.

The November 19th – 23rd Ninth Caribbean Beekeeping Congress could precede the end of a three-year-old ban on locally produced honey either entering Trinidad and Tobago.

When President David Granger visited the Ruimveldt operations of the Brass Aluminium and Cast Iron Foundry more than a year ago he made a point of underscoring the importance of innovation in industry in pursuit of adapting to the needs of the Guyanese economy.

By Berry Dann, Julianna Dietz, and Sarah Ward The Ocean Foundation With 2020 and ‘first oil’ on the horizon the Stabroek Business seeks to provide readers with insights into aspects of the sector and its operations including issues relating to the processes and risks associated with the recovery process.

Jamaica’s sixteen-year-old Financial Investigations Division (FID), a department created within the country’s Ministry of Finance to track and expose financial misdeeds within state agencies is reporting “quiet success” in its pursuits, a circumstance that strengthens the case being made for it to have greater independence, budgetary and human resources capacity and autonomy, according to a recent report in the Jamaica Gleaner.

We met 79-year -old John Caesar at his place of business, named Caesar’s Logi and situated at 160 Pineapple Street Linden.

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It seems that every time this newspaper visits the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Guyana Shop several new brands of locally produced agro-products are on display and available for sale to the public.

It’s difficult not to see Linden as a community still struggling to recuperate from the protracted effects of the decline of an industry upon which the community had, for decades, depended far too thoroughly on and aside from which there has not, at least as yet, been found a feasible option.

Try as it may, Guyana’s construction sector continues to be dogged by controversy.