Business

A few days ago the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) issued a public statement echoing much of what the Private Sector Commission (PSC) has already had to say about the business sector’s unease over what it sees as indicators of a decline in the Guyana economy.

Guyana’s infant oil and gas sector will now have access to the most advanced technical support available in the western hemisphere following the signing of three key memoranda of understanding (MoU) between the governments of Guyana and Mexico formalizing a relationship that will bring on stream a regime of critical technical support and training designed to significantly enhance local capacity in a number of key areas in the sector.

A condition of growing uncertainty over the future of the Skeldon Sugar Estate has created an uneasy atmosphere of uncertainty at various levels in communities in the Upper Corentyne and particularly among sugar workers’ families, according to President of the Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce Krishnand Jaichand.

Entrepreneur Managing Director, GeoTechVision Chairperson, Small Business Council   When I speak with entrepreneurs they usually have a vision of a successful business.

In my last article I posed a question that received a lot of feedback, so I thought it best to address that head on.

Against the backdrop of what its Administrator says has been a response in “impressive numbers” to the rollout in February of the Mathematics Application designed to support an emergency initiative aimed at improving the Grade Six examination results, STEM Guyana is seeking the support of the local business community to expand and intensify the Mathematics programme as well as apply the initiative to other subject areas at the Grade Six level.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 712’s trading results showed

Training and sensitization exercises aimed at providing “critical instructions” on the environmental considerations associated with gold mining will be one of the priorities of the Ministry of Natural Resources even as it seeks to consolidate “a culture of syndicates” as an integral part of the sector, Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes has said.

GASCI Summary of Financials  Session 712 March 15, 2017

Reporting in sections of the media on the implementation of what is being termed syndicates which we understand to mean cooperatives comprising groups of gold miners who will have mining access to traditionally closed areas has been fast and furious.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending  Thursday March 16, 2017

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and  published by Stabroek Business as a public service)

At 16, force of circumstances compelled Vanessa Klass-Singh to cut short her formal education and take up a job as a counter girl at the then Salt and Pepper Restaurant on Robb Street.

Potential foreign investors seeking to do business in Guyana need have no fear of being confronted by local officials seeking favours of them outside the confines of the formal agreements that might exist between themselves and the Government of Guyana, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman told an audience in Canada during a March 5, Guyana Day forum in Toronto.

At a time when private schools are attracting more than customary media attention on account of the current controversy raging over the official decision that private education must now attract Value Added Tax, Henry Chase, the owner and Principal of Chase Academy believes that it is important that the brouhaha does not take away from the role that the private school has to play in the overall education system.

Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice farmer Dhaniram Ramchand can anticipate the addition of further value to his farm following its certification six months ago by the National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO), a department of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute.

(Jamaica Observer) – For the year ended December 2016, GraceKennedy Group Ltd saw an 11 per cent rise in total revenues from $79.42 billion in 2015 to $88.27 billion, supported by an increase in sales in all geographical areas except the United Kingdom, where the devaluation of the pound sterling made an impact.

Annie Baird and Yvonne Walrond have fashioned a partnership that seeks to popularize their colourful and decidedly attractive fashion dolls that have to potential to set a new trend in home-decoration.