Business

Best known until now as home to the Essequibo Boys School (renamed the New Opportunity Corps), a corrective institution for young offenders, Onderneeming on the Essequibo Coast will shortly become the locale for a facility that is likely to be much more pleasing to its guests.

A year ago, a Ministry of Education official had told this newspaper that it would be “another story” when the full reality of published texts becomes apparent.

It has been almost two years since a delegation from Trinidad and Tobago headed by that country’s Food Production Minister Devant Maraj came to Guyana and held talks with local officials including Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy about an arrangement that would have seen large tracts of local lands being leased by Trinidad and Tobago farmers for the creation of mega farms, the produce from which was to have been shipped directly to the twin-island Republic.

It would appear that the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is not ready to give up on the idea of having small businesses become members of the Chamber even though, knowing what we do about the way in which the Chamber has been traditionally organised and the manner in which those businesses that we call small businesses are organised, the Chamber is embracing quite a challenge.

This small craft is performing a service to residents of the Pomeroon River that belies its size and appearance.

The twenty or so farmers who had assembled in a storage bond at Land of Plenty belonging to rice miller Ramesh Ramotar had done so at the invitation of the miller.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 578’s trading results showed consideration of $2,240,110 from 56,314 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 577’s trading results, which showed consideration of $5,814,061 from 100,250 shares traded in 11 transactions.

Aadil Baksh belongs to the third generation of the family that migrated from the Essequibo island of Wakenaam more than sixty years ago to Plantation Affiance where, today, the business complex known as Imam Bacchus and Sons extends over 300 acres of what used to be a sugar estate.

The handful of fishermen who had congregated on the Number 44 wharf on Tuesday were sitting under a shed sheltering from a brisk drizzle.

With the beginning of the new school year now just over a week away, the Stabroek Business this week took its customary ‘test’ of the commercial temperature in downtown Georgetown as parents continue to ‘cough up’ the millions of dollars that it will take to get their children back into the classroom.

It would have been a complete waste of effort and resources unless the organizers of The Guyana Festival pursue an evaluation of the event with a view to determining the extent to which its outcomes were consistent with the goals that it set itself in the first place.

Now Mail Packaging and Postal Service celebrated its second anniversary in March.  

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 577’s trading results showed consideration of $5,814,061 from 100,250 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 576’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,672,849 from 39,432 shares traded in 21 transactions.

The state of health of municipal markets is often a useful barometer of the economic outlook in the community in which that market is located.

There are some countries in the Caribbean that have responded seriously to the warning signs that have been sent by the United States about ensuring that the foods that it consumes – whether locally produced or imported – meet certain minimum standards.

Business Cartoons

Failure to implement promised sector concessions may have helped trigger the current dramatic fall in gold production, Stabroek Business has been reliably informed.

Stabroek Business has learnt that the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) could be seeking the passage of legislation designed to make membership of the Chamber compulsory for business houses that qualify.

This newspaper has paid a particular interest in the Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) Project under the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) as a mechanism for supporting the growth and development of the small business sector and moreso since the project was launched by President Donald Ramotar in October last year.