Business

Part of the group of local and diaspora academics who are putting heads together on the creation of a School of Entrepreneurship and Business in Guyana. At centre (wearing bow tie) is UG Vice Chancellor Professor Ivelaw Griffith.
Part of the group of local and diaspora academics who are putting heads together on the creation of a School of Entrepreneurship and Business in Guyana. At centre (wearing bow tie) is UG Vice Chancellor Professor Ivelaw Griffith.

Diaspora academics, local entrepreneurs teaming to create business school at UG

A report from the Office of the Vice Chancellor on an ongoing feasibility study for the establishment of a School of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation at the University of Guyana has declared that the realization of this goal will effectively lead to the closure of “one of the major gaps in UG’s educational platform.”

Prices Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation

(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

Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday November 10, 2016                  Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

The sale of re-packaged and unlabelled food items

It matters not one iota how many media releases laced with warnings of dire consequences for transgressions are issued by the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GA/FDD) regarding the unlawful packaging and repackaging of items of food for sale, for as long as we continue to not get the little things right, we will be compelled to deal with the consequences of our indifference.

Major infusion of skills needed to implement Ministry of Business Strategic Plan

Go-Invest “does not currently have the capabilities to design policies or strategies to provide more value-added services to exporters” The full and effective implementation of the five-year Strategic Plan unveiled by the Ministry of Business a week ago will depend on a major initiative designed to undertake a major skills recruitment drive in order to strengthen some of the critical departments within the ministry,

Crime and the public/private sector relationship

It should be said at the outset that the private sector’s recent publicly expressed concern that crime, including violent crime, once again appears to be lurching out of control and its demand that there be a concerted official response to push back the current crime wave is entirely appropriate.

John N Seeram

The GuySuco conundrum

By John N Seeram   I was prompted to pen this brief article following information released by the Ministry of Finance on a $2 billion subsidy for GuySuCo published in Kaieteur News of 28 October 2016.

An Action approach to team building

By Vishnu Doerga   Vishnu Doerga is the President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry   Putting together the dream team for your business can be as easy as taking an ‘action’ approach rather than the ‘information’ approach.

Prices Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation

(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.

Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday November 3, 2016                    Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman

No requiem for bauxite yet

That the foreboding clouds of declining global demand and receding world market prices are not sufficient to persuade the Government of Guyana to give up on the future of bauxite as a major money-earner for the country’s economy was the underlying theme of last Wednesday’s address at a centennial symposium for the bauxite industry.

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