Business

There were things about the seasonal commercial activity that were different this year.

Business Cartoons

Part of the Water Street Christmas congestion.

It took Stabroek Business several takes to capture the spirit of the season as exemplified in a surge of downtown trading, pavements completely clogged by vendors and shoppers and restaurants taking advantage of the propensity for eating out at this time of year.

Amidst the controversy that has arisen over the disposal of government’s 20 per cent shares in the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GTT), Director of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington has told Stabroek Business that government got more than it might have otherwise expected for the sale of its shares to the Chinese technology company Datang.

By Valrie Grant, Managing Director GeoTechVision In November this year I was honoured with the title of Commonwealth Woman Entrepreneur of the Year and invited to attend a high-profile women’s forum in Malta on the eve of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference (CHOGHM).

For Samantha Corlette, entry into the world of business was a matter of opportunity rather than considered choice.

Just over six months after assuming duties as Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection in the APNU-AFC coalition government, Simona Broomes has begun to make waves in the labour relations sector.

With encouragement from a friend, Sharon Fraites has fashioned her creative skills into an enterprise that provides for her and her three sons.

A Tourism & Hospitality Association of Guyana column “Ho! Ho! Ho!”

Years of absence from the family business appears not have dimmed the enthusiasm of Clement Corlette for enterprise and for searching for avenues through which growth and expansion can be realized.

Several months ago this newspaper was briefed by Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Norman McLean about the planned staging of a public/private business/economic forum which, as we understood it, was intended to chart a course for a longer-term relationship between the business sector and the new political administration.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday  December 17, 2015

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 646’s trading results showed consideration of $1,474,100 from 22,705 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 645’s trading results, which showed consideration of $5,605,474 from 229,958 shares traded in 7 transactions.

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Guyana’s halting efforts to create a viable and sustainable tourism sector over the years are more likely than not to continue to fall short of its goals unless government makes a decisive commitment to investing in the global marketing of the country.

The newly registered General Contractors Association of Guyana (GCAG) has pledged to work to create an environment in which “quality, honesty and fairness” become watchwords in the sector and where its members are “consistently compliant in the tender process.”

There was an encouraging sense of entrepreneurship amongst many of the vendors who placed their goods on display at last month’s first ever Small Business Exposition.

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