Business

Even as Georgetown begins to assume a greater sense of tidiness under an aggressive, state-supported cleanup campaign, City Hall is reporting challenges associated with citizens who are evincing a resistance to attempts to restore the capital to its former glory.

Labour violations in the country’s mining sector will come increasingly under the scrutiny of the Ministry of Social Protection as a release issued by the ministry earlier this week puts employers “on notice” that government intends to ensure that labour laws are enforced and workers’ rights respected.

From the ashes: Just a few weeks ago this Camp and Robb streets construction site was a pile of rubble, the outcome of a devastating conflagration that levelled several businesses.

Adhering, it seems, to the principle that differences between nations ought not to serve as a hindrance to the consolidation of bilateral relations in areas where such progress is manifestly possible, parliamentary delegation from Guyana and Suriname last week issued a statement indicating that they had met and covered a considerable amount of ground in the areas of health, the environment, piracy at sea, trafficking in persons and the strengthening of bilateral contacts at the level of the National Assembly.

As several vendors trading on the municipal wharf aback of the Stabroek Market continue to do so in the shadow of imminent danger, City Hall still has no clear idea as to when promised rehabilitation work will be done to restore the area rendered unsafe by two separate structural collapses in September last year and again in March this year.

At the Secondary Schools Home Economics Competition: Judges cast an eye over the dishes prepared by these schoolgirls.

No going back Stabroek Business has learnt that such hopes as might have been harboured by vendors who once traded in the shadow of the collapsing and now demolished Bedford Methodist School that they might be returned to their original places have now been dashed by news that – perhaps not surprisingly – the spot has been snapped up by a private investor who is planning on the establishment of a fast food facility there.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 638’s trading results showed consideration of $7,791,483 from 296,103 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 637’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,818,026 from 49,058 shares traded in 13 transactions.

Recently disclosed official concerns over possible health implications of use by Guyanese consumers of the product Grace Filled Evaporated Milk may very well extend to several other brands of milk being imported into Guyana, Stabroek Business has been reliably notified.

New look: With the old Bedford Building now demolished,  a fast food structure is to take its place.

Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Two new private non-resident companies are among the 28 business houses that have joined the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) so far this year, the Chamber’s First Vice President Vishnu Doerga has told Stabroek Business.

Last weekend, the members of the West Berbice Sheep and Goat Farmers Association were reflective rather than high-spirited as they celebrated their 8th Annual Livestock Exhibition.

By Marilyn Collins Consumers riding the eat-healthy bandwagon are now displaying an intense interest in nutritious fresh foods including fresh fruit and vegetables, leaves, roots, tubers and flowers.

The physical conditions that obtain on premises housing government ministries and other state-run departments will come under closer scrutiny as part of a broader initiative being undertaken by the Ministry of Social Protection to bring workplaces in line with national safety and health requirements, Minister in that Ministry Simona Broomes has told the Stabroek Business.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is pushing for a multi-stakeholder-led national Information & Communication Technology (ICT) plan ahead of the highly anticipated liberalization of the country’s telecommunications sector.

In the wake of the passage of the 2015 budgetary allocations in the National Assembly and the apportioning of funds to the respective government ministries and departments, the National Procurement and Tender Administration (NPTA) has been faced with a flood of tenders from applicants seeking to secure state contracts in response to a range of ‘invitations to tender’ published by the various government agencies.

First Lady to officiate at World Food Day Competition First Lady Sandra Granger, Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine and Food and Agricul-ture Organization (FAO) Resi-dent Representative in Guyana Reuben Robertson will officiate at this year’s World Food Day Secondary Schools Home Economics Competition to be held on Wednesday October 21, at the Ministry of Education Ground, Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown.

St Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony has disclosed that as of January next year his country will be joining other Caribbean territories in allowing investors from across the world to buy citizenship in the country.