It is highly unlikely that there will be anything even remotely resembling a shortage of persons and, it seems, institutions, queuing up to provide evidence in the forthcoming Commission of Inquiry into the running of the Georgetown municipal administration.
Up to late on Wednesday the Secretariat charged with rolling out the much anticipated Guyana Trade and Investment Exposition (GUYTIE) was still in the process of finalizing complete lists of ‘buyers and sellers’ expected to gather at the Marriott Hotel for four days beginning next Wednesday though the latest indications are that potential buyers who will travel to Georgetown to ‘check out’ local goods and services available to the international market are likely to be dominated by business houses from the Caribbean.
With the pace of progress towards preparations for oil and gas recovery accelerating, heightened emphasis is being placed on equipping Guyanese with aspects of the training necessary for them to be part of the historic experience.
On Tuesday, the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) called on the government to take strong steps to reverse the slowdown of the manufacturing sector.
Overview With the fast approaching date for ‘first oil”, our local content policy, still to be announced, is urgently required.
Next week’s (September 19-22) inaugural Guyana Trade & Investment Exposition (GUYTIE) marks the most recent attempt to draw external attention to such goods and services as are available for marketing to the outside world.
Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday September 13, 2018Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation andpublished 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.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 790’s trading results showed consideration of $3,688,569 from 10,726 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 789’s trading results which showed consideration of $583,875 from 5,820 shares traded in 5 transactions.
As we report in this issue of the Stabroek Business preparations for the materialization of ‘first oil’ in 2020 are witnessing the emergence of local learning institutions as partners in the process of training Guyanese to take up positions alongside their foreign counterparts in the high-skills oil recovery sector.
Up to earlier this week regional business enterprises were significantly outnumbering those from North America, Europe and further afield that had accepted invitations to participate in the September 19-22 Guyana Trade and Investment Exhibition (GUYTIE) though the organizers of the event were mindful to tell Stabroek Business that the list of thirty-three potential buyers made available on Wednesday was unlikely to be exhaustive as far as overseas participation was concerned.
If Dianne Inniss is one of those Guyanese domiciled abroad who may not yet be quite ready to pack her traps and return home ‘lock, stock and barrel’, she is determined that after spending almost forty years in the United States she must find a way of re-attaching to the land of her birth and besides that, making her presence felt in a manner that ‘gives back’ to her country.
A seminar on anti-money laundering, counterfeiting and the financing of terrorism that seeks to equip vulnerable institutions with the proper tools to help guard against these global scourges will be held here next month.
What now appears to be the certainty of an economically transformative oil and gas industry has significantly altered international perceptions of Guyana as a prospective haven for investment and underscored the Guyana Office for Investment’s (GO-Invest) enhanced role in facilitating that external investment interest, the agency has said.
Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday September 6, 2018
(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)
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Any objective analysis of the performance of the Guyana Office for Investment (GO Invest) in its role as the principal facilitator for the creation of an enhanced business and investment climate for Guyana will probably conclude that it has fallen short of expectations.
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