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At intervals the local information technology service provider Starr Computers invites groups of students to visit its showrooms, an exercise which the company’s General Manager Rehman Majeed says is designed help the young visitors to become more ‘intimate’ with contemporary information technology.

President of the Tourism & Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) Shaun McGrath has told Stabroek Business that the reduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) on goods and services associated with the industry would significantly reduce the cost of the tourism product for visitors and locals alike.

You can cut the anxiety that has been generated in the Black Bush Polder area over the prevailing trials of the rice industry with a knife.

Several weeks ago this newspaper learnt through the Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Major General (retd) Norman McLean that arising out of a meeting which the private sector had had with representatives of the new political administration, including the President, David Granger, a private sector team would be involved in the planning of a national economic forum that would include business officials of all hues and government officials whose portfolios had to do with business, investment and the economy.

By: Valrie Grant, Managing Director, GeoTechVision Working with utility organizations within the Caribbean region it is always interesting to get some insights on the workflows they use, the various software within the organization, how data is converted between different formats, and the lists goes on.

The announcement earlier this week that government is to spend more than $150 million to rehabilitate two key interior airstrips has been described by one of the country’s leading aviators as “a step in the right direction” for the country’s aviation sector.

Stabroek Business has been reliably informed that a draft report arising out of the recently commissioned official enquiry into accidents in the mining regions in Guyana including mining pit cave-ins that resulted in loss of life has been completed and is currently with “the relevant government officials” including senior officials of the Guyana Geo-logy and Mines Commission.

(Trinidad Guardian) Government hopes to strategically position T&T as a centre of development of the region’s aviation industry. This

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) was founded on November 24, 2004 and less than eight months later, from Friday July 1 to Monday July 5, 2005, hosted the inaugural Berbice Expo & Trade Fair at the Albion Sports Complex.

Black Bush Polder is, simultaneously, a major rearer of both rice and cattle.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday  September 03, 2015Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Stock market updates  GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 631’s trading results showed consideration of $2,667,300 from 15,210 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 630’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,546,020 from 15,818 shares traded in 7 transactions.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)            *Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

When Kamaldai Williams lost her cattle farmer husband who was stabbed to death five years ago during what she says was a dispute between cattle and rice farmers in the Black Bush Polder she took his place at the head of a business enterprise that is usually demanding even for seasoned men.

With more than 80,000 items in stock, Giftland’s Chief Executive Officer Roy Beepat asserts that the imposing Pattensen Complex is by far the largest retailer in Guyana as if to deliberately underscore the magnitude of the achievement.

From as early as last Monday there had been clear indications that the week that has come and almost gone with lightning speed would witness a frantic last-minute rush by parents to kit out their children for the new academic year.

Retail trading this past week has been dominated by spending on items associated with equipping children to return to school for the first term of the new academic year.

It is not just the future of the rice industry that preoccupies significant numbers of residents of the Essequibo Coast but what the decline of the sector is likely to mean to communities which, in large measure, have never really contemplated any comparable options.