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How to convert last month’s visit to Guyana by a delegation of South Florida businessmen under the auspices of the Guyanese-American Chamber of Commerce (GACC) to trade and investment is an assignment that is likely to preoccupy delegation leader Wesley Kirton for some time yet.

The optimization of the potential of Guyana’s manufacturing sector requires a far more robust and energetic business support organization to effectively serve the interests of local manufacturers, proprietor of Fibre-Tech Industrial Plastics Somat Ali has told the Stabroek Business.

Many persons start a business thinking that they will immediately see some success, but many times the pace at which success may come is overestimated.

Last month I had penned an article in recognition of International Internal Audit Awareness Month.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 670’s trading results showed consideration of $5,891,453 from 230,211 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 669’s trading results, which showed consideration of $26,424,867 from $435,480 from 901 shares traded in 5 transactions.

A group of tech-savvy Atlanta-based second generation Guyanese siblings calling themselves the K12 Youth Code has put together a novel proposal to stage a Robot Building and Programming Camp in Guyana targeting children from various social and academic backgrounds.

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Joy Agness exudes an ill-concealed enthusiasm about the prospects of putting both her business skills and her creative talents to work in the service of her country.

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Almost seven years after Fibre Tech Industrial Plastics was honoured by the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) for its pioneering work in opening up an export market in the region for its fibre-glass table tops, cupboards and bathtubs, the company’s owner and Chief Executive Officer Somat Ali said the company continues to seek ways of maximizing market opportunities on both the domestic and international markets.

This year, small business representatives at the Jubilee GuyExpo event had much to say about how it impacted on customer patronage when compared with their customary day-to-day trading in arcades, on pavements, in malls and the like.

President of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) Patrick Yarde has told the Stabroek Business said that the union is ready to engage government in talks over wages and salaries in the Public Service.

Reports from the United States indicate that the four-day visit to Guyana by a contingent of Florida-based businesspersons seeking to establish trade ties with Guyana has left the delegation upbeat about the prospects for inking firm deals with their Guyanese counterparts that will open up new opportunities for local goods on the North American market.

Reports continue to reach the Stabroek Business of problems relating to bottlenecks of one sort or another arising out of engagements between Customs authorities and importers and which, reportedly, are impeding the efficiency of import transactions and by extension the smoothness of business arrangements.

Entrepreneur, Managing Director, GeoTechVision Finance has been identified in many business surveys as the most important factor determining the survival and growth of small businesses.

With increasing numbers of customers beginning to embrace the suite of IT-driven business support services being unveiled by the commercial banking sector, local Scotia Bank Products and Marketing Manager Jennifer Cipriani has told Stabroek Business that changes in the banking culture will “sooner rather than later” transform the edifices that have long been the symbols of banking across the world.

President of the Language Institute Cecily Bernard concedes to having become increasingly aware that in a global economic climate where Guyana’s business community continues to come under growing pressure to explore opportunities for new, non-conventional markets, possession of foreign language services that are readily available to the business sector have become a necessity rather than just an advantage.

Among the many attention-seekers from the local fashion industry who will be in evidence as the country’s Independence anniversary celebrations continue is fashion designer Carol Fraser.

(Jamaica Observer) – Digicel Group and Huawei Technologies have successfully tested a new technology on its fibre to the home network which could quadruple the internet speed customers now experience.