Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman a week ago used the forum of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry Annual Gala Dinner to tag what he described as “activities of grave disrepute” in the mining sector and to place stakeholders on notice that, going forward, the administration will be taking aim at the slew of irregularities that have persisted in the sector, albeit against a backdrop of official failure, over the years.
In last Friday’s issue the Stabroek Business published a lead story regarding some of the details of the training regime being provided by the Small Business Bureau (SBB) under the Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) project launched by then president Donald Ramotar in October 2013.
The December 7 Trinidad Guardian has reported that Trinidad and Tobago has been invited to participate in a discussion, along with 14 other countries, being convened by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on the subject of cutting back on oil production.
Automation, Part IV
By Louis Holder
This is the fourth of a seven-part series on changes to labor employment in the future, causes of this upheaval, and some possible measures to mitigate their disruptive effects.
Stabroek Business has learnt that the Ministry of Business may now be contemplating a new date, before the end of December, for the restart of scrap metal exports but that the measures will remain temporary since the creation of a structure for the permanent restart of the trade remains incomplete.
With Guyana’s tourism product continuing to be characterized by unfulfilled potential and unrealized ambitions, government, in its 2017 budget proposals has once again outlined undertakings that would appear to leave open the door to a more wholehearted official endorsement of the role that tourism can play in enhancing the country’s economy.
Nand Persaud International Communication Inc has won this year’s Excellence in Services Exports Award conferred by Caribbean Export on the regional service agency deemed to have made the outstanding contribution to service delivery.
A report in the Sunday December 4 issue of the Jamaica Gleaner has quoted Kelly Tomblin, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the island’s electricity supplier, as saying that the country’s growth continues to be stymied by its inefficient use of energy, making it one of the worst in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The launch today of the Holiday Craft and Music Festival at the 76-77 Robb Street Courtyard Mall (opposite the Stabroek News) will kick off an initiative by a group comprising artists, craftspeople and musicians to attempt to create a longer-term creative space at a modest but potentially attractive downtown venue.
On November 29 and 30 Partners of the Americas in collaboration with the Caribbean Self-Reliance International hosted an Assembly of Shadehouse Producers, an awareness/planning activity for the Regional Clusters of Shadehouse Producers created out of a four-year project designed to provide a viable farming option for communities across the country.
By Valrie Grant
Entrepreneur, Managing Director, GeoTechVision and Chairperson Small Business Council
Building strong and sustainable business relationships across borders was the theme of the Republic Banks’ Triangular Trade Mission which took place from November 28 – 29, 2016 at the Guyana Marriott Hotel. This
This is the third of a seven-part series on changes to labour employment in the future, causes of this upheaval, and some possible measures to mitigate their disruptive effects.
Against the backdrop of questions that continue to arise about Guyana’s state of preparedness to significantly raise the quality of its response to external investment enquiries, Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin told a gathering of regional entrepreneurs that Guyana is now ready to put in motion a plan to make it easier for potential investors to do business here.
With the increasing and worrisome proliferation of prohibited and potentially dangerous food imports into Guyana and the patent limitations in the ability of the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GA-FDD) to address what is believed to be a regime deliberately contrived by some importers to maximize their profits at the expense of the nation’s health, Acting Director of the GA-FDD Marlan Cole has been persistent in his insistence that the department needs to enhance its capacity.
Modest but strategically placed, The Courtyard is home to a handful of small businesses, and may not be as popular as some of the more elaborate facilities that have sprung up around the city.
