Earlier this week a sizeable group of Guyanese travelled to Florida to participate in an event that puts on display a range of fashion clothing, craft and agro-processed foods to promote Guyana and locally produced goods to the international community, more particularly in North America.
Guyana and Suriname are not adequately exploiting trade and other economic opportunities either between themselves, or with Brazil.
Information released in the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) 2014 Needs Assessment Survey indicates that sections of the local business community support the GCCI being vocal on certain political issues.
Deliberately, one suspects, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, in Guyana Khadija Musa last week took what some might see as an indelicate tilt at a section of the local fast food sector.
GuyExpo has set itself apart as the country’s biggest and best example of public/private sector collaboration on commerce and trade promotion and “by far the best forum for the initial marketing of local small enterprises looking to make an entry into the wider market.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 586’s trading results showed consideration of $564,267 from 19,100 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 585’s trading results, which showed consideration of $19,997,951 from 902,382 shares traded in 14 transactions.
(Trinidad Express) – Port of Spain-based One Caribbean Media Ltd (OCM) has recorded growth in revenue for the nine-month period up to September 30, 2014.
(Trinidad Express) – President of the Chaguanas Chamber of Commerce Richie Sookhai says illegal immigrants are taking away jobs from locals.
(Trinidad Express) Trini-dad Cement Ltd has recorded growth in revenue of $97.2 million for the first nine months of 2014 ending September 30.
After a certain authority figure in a downtown store had been notified that the law required him to engage a furious customer who was demanding a refund since an electronic toy which the customer had bought from the shop a few days earlier had stopped working, he assumed a belligerent posture and proceeded to make the point that he could not consider either a refund or an exchange since it had been two days since the item had been bought.
The ten pieces of exotic cane furniture which Prainroop Prasad took to GuyExpo two weekends ago were all sold.
Five years after the signing of the historic PetroCaribe ‘rice for oil’ deal between Guyana and Venezuela the euphoria in the sector that had resulted has been replaced with a more sober posture among stakeholders.
Chief Executive Officer of Caribbean Container Inc (CCI) Patricia Bacchus has attributed the indifferent performance of the company during the first six months of 2014 to a range of factors some of which she said were outside of the company’s control.
If you are simply looking for a job and need the help of an agency that might find you one, International Recruiters is probably not the ideal firm to seek out.
The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) is anticipating big things from its most recent variety of rice on trial in the sector across the country.
With the October 3 to 6 GuyExpo fast approaching, this newspaper has been reliably informed that the event will see representation from Asia, South America and the Caribbean and will include ministerial representation from at least one country.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 579’s trading results showed consideration of $2,066,098 from 84,248 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 578’s trading results, which showed consideration of $2,240,110 from 56,314 shares traded in 16 transactions.
If Essequibo rice farmers are not even close to walking away from an industry that has served them well for decades, there are signs of an increasing awareness of some of the current uncertainties associated with the sector.
193 Middle Road La Penitence is the home of D&D Beauty Salon and Boutique and the family team of 25-year-old Delshana Christopher, her brother Delson and their mother, Vanessa, run what one might call a place of style and beauty for people of all walks of life.
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