Business

Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection Simona Broomes has told the Stabroek Business that she expects to meet with both the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) “as early as possible in October” to deal with matters pertaining to her ongoing interface with workplaces as regards employer/employee relations.

Kester Hutson gives much of the credit for his induction into the world of Information Technology to his two-year stint at the Government Technical Institute (GTI), from 1998-2000, pursuing an Ordin-ary Diploma in Science and to the attention of George H E James, one of his lecturers there.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 635’s trading results showed consideration of $350,450 from 12,100 shares traded in 4 transactions as compared to session 634’s trading results, which showed consideration of $3,894,157 from 198,520 shares traded in 12 transactions.

Just over a year after establishing Global Seafood Distributors at Industrial Site, West Ruimveldt, businesswoman Allison Butters-Grant is set to make another eye-catching public statement.

There have always been complaints about underhand goings-on in the world of car dealerships.

A row could be brewing in the country’s aviation sector over just whose responsibility it is to maintain the country’s many interior airstrips following a pronouncement by former Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Chairman Hugh Denbow last week that it was not central government’s responsibility.

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Crime, coupled with concerns over the future of the sugar and rice industries are perhaps highest on the list of concerns of those residents of Berbice who put in an appearance at last weekend’s 11th Berbice Expo.

Every year, for the past 11 years, the Berbice rice giants Nand Persaud and Company put in an appearance at the Berbice Expo.

President of the Guyana Public Service Union Patrick Yarde has said that state-funded projects offering income-generating pursuits for public servants could be a possible option in circumstances where government, over the years, has failed to get around the issue of less than adequate wages and salaries for its employees.

By Marilyn Collins Marilyn Collins is a former Director of the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department.

Up to 300 booths run by vendors drawn from local small and medium-sized enterprises are likely to be set up at the National Exhibition Centre, Sophia to host the one-off Business Exposition 2015.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 634’s trading results showed consideration of $3,894,157 from 198,520 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 633’s trading results, which showed consideration of $3,703,901 from 149,420 shares traded in 9 transactions.

A week ago the Head of Trans Guyana Airways Mr Michael Correia introduced a Rayethon Beechcraft 1900D aircraft into the country’s aviation sector.

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The British Birdwatching Fair is held in August on the shores of Rutland Waters in the county of Rutland.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Digicel Group is seeking to raise US$2 billion through its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange, most of which appears destined to pay down debt racked up by the company over more than a dozen years of operation.

Long-standing criticism of the effectiveness of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) in its role as the state oversight agency for the country’s gold-mining sector has been expanded by the conclusions of the recently released four-member investigative report into accidents in the mining sector.

Administrative Coordinator of the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) Mining School and Training Centre John Applewhite-Hercules believes that as public interest centres increasingly on building capacity in the industry the role of the school has become more important.