Forever bemoaning the scourge of copyright infringement and the limited legitimate marketing outlets for their work, Caribbean musicians are expected to pay keen interest in a project being undertaken by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) aimed at determining the feasibility of the creation of a private sector-driven Caribbean music platform to market online music in an effort to increase earnings to the sector.
Greater account is to be taken of the need for the protection of people and the environment in World Bank-funded projects in the Caribbean under a new initiative funded by the Bank and announced last week.
Guyana-born, Atlanta-based Samantha Maycock is currently on a brief visit to Guyana, keeping a promise she made to her sister to support her in the staging of this year’s Miss Summer Blaze Beauty Pageant.
By Karen Abrams, MBA IT Consultant
As Guyana’s sugar, bauxite and rice industries continue to struggle under the weight of competition and global pricing pressures, our local economy and therefore citizens will continue to feel the direct hit as less revenue is available to pay for improved government services and development projects.
(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)
*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.
Port Kaituma is no bed of roses, though, from, a distance, the stories about a profusion of gold-mining there may create the impression that the community is in a good place, so to speak and that the residents are thriving.
Long believed to be lacking in the clout to effectively assert itself in the wake of a government ban on the scrap metal trade that has been in force for more than a year, the Guyana Metal Recyclers Association (GMRA) on Thursday unleashed a withering broadside on the administration, dismissing the closure of the trade as illegal and demanding its immediate reopening.
In the wake of the public controversy that has shrouded the planned introduction of parking meters in the capital in recent months, Managing Director of Smart City Solutions Ifa Kamau Cush told Stabroek Business that yesterday’s launch of public consultations on the issue at the National Library represented a determined effort on his part to ensure that Guyanese secure “the correct understanding” of the nature and potential benefits of the project.
By Raymond F Trotz: Chairman, National Stakeholders Platform, Guyana
Background and Introduction
In recent months there has been much focus on developing the coconut industry in Guyana.
General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has criticized what he says was the recent focus by Natural Resources & Environment Minister Raphael Trotman on production figures in the bauxite industry without “mentioning a word about working conditions and the industrial relations problems” in the industry.
Moray House Trust will host ‘A Life in Agriculture: Beni Sankar in conversation with Arnon Adams’ on Thursday, August 11, at 5.30 pm at Moray House, Camp and Quamina streets.
Company Secretary of the Continental Group of Companies Mohamed S Ali has told Stabroek Business that the company is persuaded that the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GAFDD) is doing the best with the resources at its disposal in the wake of the challenge which it faces in curbing the proliferation of fake products into Guyana.
(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)
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