Small business operators who, late last month, received more than $20 million in grants under the Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) Project through the Low Carbon Development Strategy Guyana Redd+ Investment Fund can anticipate stringent post-disbursement monitoring from the Small Business Bureau (SBB) to ensure compliance with the conditions under which the grants were allocated, the Bureau’s Credit Guarantee Fund Manager Gillian Griffith has told Stabroek Business.
The demand for the movement of cargo by sea between North America and the Caribbean has, for more than a quarter of a century, been driven largely by the relationships between Caribbean people in the diaspora and their families and relatives in the island and mainland territories of the region.
Jeemima Burke doing a practical class with two of her students
This month marks a year since Jeemima Burke opened Lady J’s Beauty Salon, Cosmetology School and Enterprise at 50 Camp and Robb streets, Lacytown, opposite Republic Bank.
As the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) move to staunch continually mounting claims of corrupt practices in the gold-mining sector, GGMC staff members can expect to come under closer official scrutiny with the establishment of a Special Inspectorate that will investigate allegations made against them.
Almost eighteen months after its September 13, 2013 launch here, Credit Info Guyana Inc has recorded the first use of credit data generated by the institution as part of the process employed by a local financial institution to support its risk management mechanism and decision-making process for credit applications.
Occupational Safety and Health Specialist Dale Beresford has told Stabroek Business that last Friday’s electrical accident at the Bauxite Company Guyana Inc’s (BCGI) Kurubuku Mines ought to be the subject of an independent investigation and that investigation should be undertaken and the findings made public without delay.
Seven years after the launch of the Wedding Expo product by the Roraima Group of Companies, Chief Executive Officer Captain Gerry Gouveia has told Stabroek Business that the absence of legislation to better facilitate Wedding Tourism in Guyana amounts to “an opportunity that we continue to pass up” to broaden the base of the local tourism industry.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 601’s trading results showed consideration of $49,088,362 from 905,442 shares traded in 51 transactions as compared to session 600’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,263,400 from 50,600 shares traded in 8 transactions.
Recipients of grants from the Small Business Bureau pose with President Donald Ramotar (centre in white shirt) at the National Conference Centre shortly after the presentation ceremony last Friday.
Caribbean Container Inc (CCI), the only enterprise in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) that produces recycled paper says it is prepared to work with local manufacturers in providing access to affordable packaging that meets export standards.
A few weeks ago Natural Resources and Environment Minister Robert Persaud provided responses to questions put to him by this newspaper about conditions in the mining sector covering both the gold and bauxite industries and embracing such issues as the general state of health of the respective industries, safety and health, the environment and – in the particular case of the bauxite industry, industrial relations.
Sixty-four proprietors of local small businesses are expected to be the first recipients of grants under the Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) project funded through the Low Carbon Development Strategy/Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (LCDS/GRIF) at a ceremony scheduled to take place at the Guyana International Conference Centre this morning.
Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud has told Stabroek Business that projects designed to determine the various sources through which mercury enters the Guianas and the distribution networks that obtain in the region, are part of a wider exercise of seeking to control the movement of the substance into Guyana’s gold-bearing communities.
In this issue of the Stabroek Business we reported on a visit to Guyana earlier this week by Prism Communications, a Jamaican product promotion company.
In just over five months, one of Guyana’s best-known entrepreneurs will commence the creation of a project that will not only take his business pursuits to another level but will also single him out as an investor with a vision for the longer-term future of Guyana.
Executive Director of the European Union-funded Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) Pamela Coke-Hamilton says the body is backing exports to contribute meaningfully to sustaining the economies of the region at a time when marginal economic growth would appear to be on the horizon.
