Business

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 642’s trading results showed consideration of $464,800 from 20,854 shares traded in 4 transactions as compared to session 641’s trading results, which showed consideration of $2,317,610 from 10,456 shares traded in 7 transactions.

Food safety and food service establishments

By Marilyn Collins Environmental Health Specialist Report (EHS 2015) detailed a study in which 448 food managers in a focal group admitted that inadequate chicken preparation and improper cooking practices were common occurrences.

Minister Simona Broomes engaging workers

Broomes to meet business owners for discourse on adherence to labour laws

Plans for a meeting between Junior Minister of Social Protection Simona Broomes and business owners are, she told Stabroek Business earlier this week, “part of the ministry’s wider strategy to develop a workable formula for a better labour relations environment,” between business owners and their employees and between business owners and the Ministry of Social Protection.

Market vendor Debbie Weeks

Vending sluggish on Merriman Mall

On Tuesday, a public holiday, Debbie Weeks travelled from her home at Parika to Georgetown to paint the stall on which she sells on the stretch of Merriman Mall between East and Cummings streets.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 641’s trading results showed consideration of $2,317,610 from 10,456 shares traded in 7 transactions as compared to session 640’s trading results, which showed consideration of $4,630,456 from 240,375 shares traded in 9 transactions.

Tourism aspirations and a hospitality institute

News that Guyana has invited the Director of the Hospitality Institute of Barbados to give support to the creation of a similar facility here in Guyana is welcome, even if it leaves us none the wiser as to a time frame for the creation of our own local centre of excellence as far as raising the bar in the hospitality sector is concerned.

Ogle International Airport

Ogle airport seen as probably best public/private venture

Claims in a recent newspaper article that the State Asset Recovery Unit (SARU), set up by government to investigate the use of state resources, had questioned whether the circumstances under which the Ogle Inter-national Airport (OIA) passed into private hands should not be reviewed have been dismissed by Michael Correia, Head of Trans Guyana Airways and Chairman of the body that manages the country’s second international airport.

Corn field

Corn, soya bean expansion bodes well for poultry export prospects

Guyana’s agricultural sector may be moving closer to taking advantage of an estimated US$400 million Caricom poultry meat market following a disclosure that points to the likelihood that the local poultry sector could be close to securing self-sufficiency in the production of two key ingredients in the manufacture of poultry feed.

City Hall and the capital cleanup

It is entirely fair to give City Hall a gentle pat on the back for what we expect is an ongoing effort to change the appearance of the city – and its own image in the process – even as it appears to enjoy a relationship with the present administration than it apparently did with the previous one.

Celebrating restaurants

The excitement of Restaurant Week!

Restaurant Week began in New York City in 1992. Origi-nally a four-day event, it was created as a goodwill gesture to the 15,000 journalists and reporters covering that year’s Democratic National Convention.

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