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By Matt Slaughter & Jaana Remes  RIO DE JANEIRO – Ready or not, Brazil is rolling out the welcome mat for sports fans from around the world.

Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy’s announcement last week about the introduction of draft Food Safety legislation in the National Assembly at its next sitting would have taken many people by surprise.

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GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 567’s trading results showed consideration of $19,833,260 from 504,526 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 566’s trading results which showed consideration of $1,744,761 from 47,771 shares traded in 13 transactions.

Differences of opinion have surfaced between President of the Tourism and Hospitality Association (THAG) Christopher ‘Kit’ Nascimento and Roraima Airways Chief Executive Officer Gerry Gouveia, a former head of THAG, over recent remarks made by Nascimento about the state of the sector and his perception of the government’s attitude to the industry.

With urban Guyana currently experiencing a surfeit of major construction, Safety and Health expert and Director of the private consultancy Optimum Safety Solutions Dale Beresford wants the Ministry of Labour to step up inspections at construction sites to ensure that there are adequate measures in place to identify safety hazards and that preventive action is taken.

At various times over the past several months this newspaper has reported on the Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) Development and Building Alternative Livelihood for Vulnerable Groups project which is being funded under the environmental partnership between Guyana and Norway and overseen jointly by the Inter-Ameri-can Development Bank and the Government of Guyana.

It’s hard to estimate the number of vendors on the pavements and streets of Georgetown.

Girendra Persaud divides much of his time between developing websites and other IT related products and services and lecturing in the Information Technology Depart-ment of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Guyana (UG).

Hoapei Yang is a 26-year-old China-born Guyanese who has just created skilledguyanese.com,

At a time when Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries are coming under increasing pressure to significantly lower an estimated US4 billion annual food import bill a Cdn$20 million initiative is set to forge new links between several regional farming communities and major buyers of fresh produce—like supermarkets and hotels—in the Caribbean that could present a major part of the solution to the food import problem.

By Mark Jacobs   The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) defines urban and peri-urban agriculture as “an industry that produces, processes and markets food and fuel largely in response to the daily demands of consumers within a town, city or metropolis, on land and water dispersed throughout the urban and peri-urban area, applying intense production methods, using and reusing natural resources and urban waste to yield a diversity of crops and livestock.”

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 566’s trading results showed consideration of $1,744,761 from 47,771 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 565’s trading results which showed consideration of $23,439,905 from 826,008 shares traded in 23 transactions.

It would not be in the least surprising if the names Saymelyah and Kamadyah Yisrael were felt to belong to a pair of foreigners with Middle Eastern ancestry.

The Tourism and Hospitality association of Guyana (THAG) continues to have serious doubts about the state of the sector’s health as well as misgivings about government’s commitment to the creation of a viable tourism sector, THAG President Christopher ‘Kit’ Nascimento has said.

Newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of Caribbean Container Inc Patricia Bacchus says she wants to follow through on the work done by her late predecessor, Ronald Webster “as it relates to diversification of both the recycling portfolio and the environmentally friendly product lines the company offers.”

If you walk down Regent Street or Water Street these days, you would think that there had never been a clampdown on street vending.

Government needs to move with much greater haste to fashion a coherent national information and communications technology (ICT) policy if the various sectors of the society are to begin to maximise “the considerable benefits to be derived…,” President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Lance Hinds has said.

Twenty-five local hotel and resort owners and managers are to participate in a five-day workshop on ‘Marketing Techniques for Small Hotels’ targeting middle and senior management drawn from properties with 75 rooms or less.