One of the points made to us by the new President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Mr Vishnu Doerga during an interview published in the Stabroek Business last week, had to do with the focus which, going forward, the Chamber will be placing on reaching out to sister Chambers across the country in an effort to support them in their quest to infuse a higher level of organizational and administrative acumen into the agendas of the business communities in the various regions of the country.
There is an appealing intimacy to the Restaurant Gallery that makes you want to stay beyond your meal to contemplate the sampling of local art displayed on its eastern wall, a reflection, the facility’s Manager says, of a desire to nourish both the body and the creative imagination.
Potential investors who had previously engaged the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) are being encouraged to reopen those investment enquiries as the agency enters its retooling phase to better position itself to respond to government’s accelerated focus on creating an enhanced enabling environment for foreign investment.
Serious resource-related weaknesses in the monitoring and enforcement regimes at the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GAFDD) may have opened the doors to concerted abuse of the laws governing the importation of foods, medicines and cosmetics into the country.
This newspaper’s interview earlier this week with the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of GO-Invest Mr Owen Verwey, provided some important and long-overdue insights into the likely future of the agency charged not only with promoting Guyana at home and abroad as a worthwhile investment destination but also with helping to open up new external markets in which Guyana can pay a trading interest, apart, of course, from shoring up the traditional ones.
By: Valrie Grant, Entrepreneur, Managing Director, GeoTechVision
Starting your own business can be exciting, yet it can be quite a daunting experience.
The extractive sector in the Caribbean region will benefit from a Cdn$20 million fund being made available by the Canadian Extractive Sector Facility (CANEF) to help implement best practices in the management of natural resources linked to extractive industries.
Newly elected President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Vishnu Doerga has told the Stabroek Business that effective collaboration between government and private sector in the quest to take the country’s economy forward continues to be affected by the fact that the private sector is “the other half” of an unequal partnership.
“Guyana cannot hope to promote itself as a country that is open to foreign investment on the basis of “a portfolio that turns its back on the exploitation of the workers of the country, the pillaging of its resources and one which appears to have no difficulty with the transgression of the laws of the country,” General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has said.
What the 50th anniversary of Guyana’s independence offers – among other things – is an opportunity for the rest of the Caribbean to join us in the celebrations and the Jamaican-born businesswoman who has set up operations here has told Stabroek Business that her Island Style Restaurant situated on Brickdam directly opposite what is commonly called the GTT Blackberry Building feels honoured to part of it.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 662’s trading results showed consideration of $277,150 from 7,734 shares traded in 5 transactions as compared to session 661’s trading results, which showed consideration of $332,956 from 9,522 shares traded in 6 transactions.
Seven of the lowest paid public servants, most of them relatively young women who are heads of their households, spoke with Stabroek Business last week, seeking a way to make their case for their salaries to be lifted to at least the minimum wage level.
President David Granger told the Annual General Meeting of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) that the country’s recently held first municipal elections in more than two decades had paved the way for a reappraisal of the contributions that our towns and communities can make towards the creation of economically powerful regions across the country.
The first thing you discern about the Gouveia siblings, Gerry (Jnr) and Kevin, is the consummate ease with which they handle questions about their vision for Roraima Airways Inc, the company which was created ‘from scratch’ by their father, Captain Gerry Gouveia, which, he says, will inevitably pass into the hands of his two sons.
By Robert Skidelsky
LONDON – In recent decades, economics has been colonizing the study of human activities hitherto considered exempt from formal calculus.
