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It is a comforting thing that sections of the citizenry have opted to hold City Hall to account in the parking meter brouhaha, if only to make the point that its behaviour in the matter of the rolling out of the project runs counter to the very commitment that it made to democratic conduct when it took office to replace a predecessor administration that had itself been accused of, not infrequently, acting as a law onto itself.

Part of the challenge associated with the expansion of Guyana’s coastal housing programme is the difficulty ensuring that the provision of services for residential communities keeps pace with the creation of the communities.

– business ministry working on new procedures Piqued over what it says has been the suspension—without either notice or official notification—of the scrap metal trade by the APNU+AFC administration since June last year, the Guyana Metal Recyclers Association (GMRA) the official umbrella body for local exporters has told the Stabroek Business that the protracted inability of businesses to ply their trade is wreaking havoc with the industry and denying legitimate businessmen the right to earn a living.

Gavin August may well be unique in the extent of his financial investment in Kwakwani: an estimated $50 million to create a 12-room hotel, which he hopes will pay him back down the road, when the fortunes of the community change.

While the Stabroek Business has been unable to secure a reliable estimate of the extent of the increase in urban trading over the past five years we have noticed the pronounced upsurge in small business investments in sectors such as grooming and beauty treatment (barbering, hairdressing, cosmetology), fashion, food vending and IT goods and services.

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By A Cecile Watson   A Cecile Watson is the founder of pitchandchoose.com.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday  June 23, 2016Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

A new study released earlier this month by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has put countries in Latin America and the Caribbean on notice that they are confronted with a savings crisis that might do damage to their economies in the years ahead.

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As the story goes, the name Annandale is said to honour the two daughters of the proprietor of the tract of land to which the name was given.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is treating the current public service wages and salaries negotiations with the Government of Guyana as “the start of a process aimed at bettering the lot of public servants in a manner that goes way beyond the monetary benefits which we expect will derive from the process,” its President Patrick Yarde has said.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday June 16, 2016Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

There is evidence of both professional lawlessness and official indifference in matters of safety and health in the construction sector and both the government and the “community of contractors” have a responsibility to move to protect both the lives of workers and the reputation of the industry, Secretary of the General Contractors Association of Guyana (GCAG) Neil Cort-Rogers has said.

In the wake of the disclosure earlier this week that quantities of monosodium glutamate with the counterfeit brand ‘Ajinomoto’ had appeared on the local market, the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GA-FDD) has told this newspaper that the inherent operational weaknesses of the department pose an ever present risk that counterfeited/fake foods could have easy passage into the country.

By A Cecile Watson A Cecile Watson is the founder of pitchandchoose.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has published a draft local standard for cellular phone dealers which, under its labelling requirements, stipulates that cell phones being offered for sale “shall be labelled accordingly as used, refurbished or new.

No longer hamstrung by the burden of having been in office for more than two decades without having to face the electorate, City Hall is going about the business of fashioning the city in its image and likeness with a renewed assertiveness.

If micro, small and medium-size (MSME) enterprises in Guyana think the difficulties they face in prying open the purse strings of commercial banks are unique to them, they should think again.