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Up until a few years ago Indira Phyneandy might never have imagined that the current focus of her professional life would have been on restoring the fortunes of what was once considered to be one of the city’s most tasteful hotels.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 28, 2015

The goodwill that has been extended to the new political administration by nationals in the diaspora is a corollary to the high level of interest that had been evinced in the elections campaign by Guyanese residing abroad.

Chief Executive Officer of the local IT Company Brain Street Lance Hinds says the new government should undertake a cost/benefit analysis of the damaged e-governance cable, “to determine whether it should be maintained as against whether it should be scrapped and consideration given to purchasing bandwidth from commercial providers at concessional prices.”

Beneficiaries of the grant component of the Norway-funded Guyana Redd+ Investment Fund (GRIF) for Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) being executed by the state-run Small Business Bureau have (SBB) received grants totalling almost US$100,000 to finance small and micro enterprise initiatives in more than 10 sectors, the Stabroek Business has been informed.

The presence of President David Granger out and about last Sunday morning, taking a look at work being undertaken to unblock clogged drains in the city and to restore the once impressive Independence Arch in Brickdam served to send a signal of his interest in restoring a sense of physical order in the country’s capital and repairing our historic sites and monuments.

By John Seeram This article is being published by the Stabroek Business as a service to the Guyana Chapter of the Institute of International Auditors to mark Audit Awareness Month, May 2015 The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global has declared the month of May, Audit Awareness Month.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world Niall Ferguson is Professor of History at Stanford and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS/Jamaica Observer) – The Ministry of Agriculture is projecting that Jamaica’s beekeeping industry will generate an estimated $1 billion in earnings from honey production in 2015.

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Lance Hinds says he wants to see “an adjusted relationship” between government and the private sector that focuses “much more closely” on the specific roles of the two in the task of building the country in the period ahead.

Vendors trading in the area of the Stabroek Market Wharf, a section of the roof of which collapsed last September bringing an abrupt and protracted halt to their activities can anticipate the commencement of work by the municipality in conjunction with the Ministry of Works in the near future, Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green told Stabroek Business in a telephone interview on Monday.

(Daily Express Trinidad) – The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Associa-tion has told Government that it wants no more incentives and all it is interested in is the State doing its job.

The past president of the Guyana Arts and Craft Producers Association (GACPA) Nicholas Young believes that the two-week workshop on mould design and manufacturing from May 25- June 15, being executed by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) in collaboration with the Caribbean Technological Consultancy Services Network (CTCSN) and the GACPA could well signal an important turning point in the history of what he believes is an important sub-sector in the art and craft sector.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Traffic jams in the future could cause potentially dangerous data snarl-ups as cars packed with entertainment, safety and navigation features vie for airwaves with smartphones, tablets and networked features in other vehicles, according to a study.

(Reuters) Canadian e-commerce software maker Shopify Inc’s (SHOP.N) (SH.TO) shares rose as much as 69 per cent in their US debut, valuing the company at about $2.14 billion.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 616’s trading results showed consideration of $537,274 from 6,376 shares traded in 5 transactions as compared to session 615’s trading results, which showed consideration of $3,515,177 from 173,688 shares traded in 11 transactions.

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

Even as local tour operators seek to structure their entities to attract a greater share of the visitor market in the hemisphere the idea of Guyana’s greater involvement in a more integrated approach to marketing the tourism product in South America is being mooted by international industry experts.