Business

The change in official policy position on used car imports some years ago may have created a window of vulnerability that increases the risk of consumers being sold defective vehicles, Consumer Affairs Officer at the Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission Clifford Zammett has said.

Amid concerns about significantly reduced gold production in the face of falling world market prices, Stabroek Business has learnt that the sector will almost certainly have to effect a downward adjustment in its projection for gold production this year.

Up until now, little if anything has been said in the media here about Guyana’s planned hosting of the Caribbean Association of Home Economists (CAHE) 22nd Biennial Conference in March/April next year.

(The second and final instalment)   One of the more attractive things about GuyExpo 2013 was the more than usual number of Amerindian vendors who had set up stalls displaying their strong drinks and wild-meat based dishes.

By Haopei Yang   Introduction From its inception in the 1960s as a small number of connected computer systems, to the introduction of the World Wide Web (WWW) by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the internet has grown and evolved into one of the most depended-upon facilities in mankind’s history.

There is an air of expectancy amongst Home Econo-mists as their umbrella organisation, the Guyana Association of Home Economists (GAHE) prepares to host the March/ April, 2014, 22nd Biannual Conference of the Carib-bean Association of Home Economists (CAHE).

By Renata Chuck-A-Sang   Women’s ability to multitask and adapt to unfavourable circumstances help them to climb the business ladder with confidence.

At 32, Astell Collins still seeks to hone his evident talents to meet the demands of a multi-faceted market.

Like so many other bakeries in Guyana, Nedd’s Sons & Daughters Bakery, situated at Garnett & Campbell streets in Campbellville has a rich history.

These ought to be good times for Wayne Garraway. He has spent almost half of his 38 years in the hollow block business.

Local Health and Safety Consultant Dale Beresford is advocating an officially backed “national fall prevention stand-down” in the construction industry, to allow “breathing space to raise awareness of preventing fall hazards in the sector.”

Against the backdrop of increasingly stringent food safety measures being implemented in North America and which threaten to place restrictions on food imports from the Caribbean, Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy announced last week that government will introduce a Food Safety Bill during the next sitting of Parliament.

By Joycelyn Williams A competitive economy must have competitive companies producing goods and services that can compete in the global marketplace in terms of features, quality and price.

This year, according to the public officials running GuyExpo, the event will play down the entertainment afforded mostly by the loud music and will focus more on the marketing and trading of goods, which is what we are continually told is much of the purpose of the event anyway.

Several local business houses, including some big traders, are stubbornly refusing to comply with national laws governing the right of consumers to secure refunds for goods purchased from their stores, a practice that continues to leave buyers saddled with items which or are defective and therefore useless.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association’s (GMSA) announcement that it intends to lobby the Guyana Revenue Authority for more rigorous checks of incoming cargo with a view to finding and confiscating counterfeit goods will probably not meet with a great deal of success, a Customs source told Stabroek Business on Wednesday.

Artistic Line was created out of the energy and determination of Jennifer Holder, a mother of three children and the owner of a modest multi-purpose enterprise.

Earlier this week representatives of the United States-registered airline Dynamic Airways were in Georgetown seeking to recruit staff to fill a range of positions ahead of the start of its service between Guyana and New York scheduled before the customarily busy July and August travel season.

(Trinidad Express) – Developing countries are headed for a year of disappointing growth, as first quarter weakness in 2014 has delayed an expected pick-up in economic activity, the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report has said.