Business

Of the five ‘new generation’ subjects launched earlier this week across the Caribbean as part of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), Guyana will more likely than not be most interested in Agriculture Science, Tourism and Entrepreneurship.

In theory at least, local consumer protection regulations frown on business houses that display ‘goods not returnable’ signs on their shop fronts or stamp such notices on their bills.

The name of yet another female Guyanese businesswoman has appeared on the list of top ten nominees for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Women in Business Awards.

Business Cartoons

– GCCI President says telecoms liberalization ‘can’t come fast enough’ Guyana continues to lag behind much of the Caribbean Community in terms of effective implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) both as a cross-cutting component to impact positively on the other sectors of the economy and as a sector to stand up on its own.

If all goes well, Guyana could have its first ICT-driven Smart School later this year, arising out of a currently unfolding initiative involving the world-renowned technology giant Samsung and the local communication technology service provider Starr Computers Ltd.

The proliferation of eating houses of one sort or another around the city has given rise to the need for appreciably heightened levels of vigilance as far as service providers’ attention to issues of safety and health and standards on the whole are concerned.

By Joycelyn Williams   The third of the eight Millennium Development Goals set by the UNDP is to promote gender equality and empower women.

By Clinton Urling   The regional private sector movement is near death, on minimum life support and no amount of bandages and doses of dubious medicine can resuscitate it.

Five Canadian companies that specialize in the importation and distribution of fresh fruit and vegetables and agro-processed foods are due to arrive in Guyana on Monday on a four-day buyers’ mission.

Efforts by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) to help create a more convivial environment for both local and foreign investment in the Guyana economy will see the chamber seeking to “significantly intensify” the lobby for adjustment to the national legislative framework on intellectual property.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 562’s trading results showed consideration of $4,007,504 from 83,108 shares traded in 19 transactions as compared to session 561’s trading results which showed consideration of $7,912,971 from 401,233 shares traded in 13 transactions.

With the promised National Hospitality Academy still some distance away, University of Guyana Economics graduate Sheldon Kellman is seeking to carve a niche of his own in the hospitality sector ahead of what he anticipates will be a significant increase in the demand for trained service providers in the sector once visitor arrival numbers begin to grow.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The impact of the Internet on modern society is profound.

– tests of new equipment set for Quartz Hill this month Gold mining could become mercury-free in as little as a year if the sector is determined to see it happen, a Venezuelan-born Geological Engineer who works as a consultant in the local mining sector has told Stabroek Business.

After 81 years of serving as the country’s principal training institution for women in the various disciplines in the field of home-making the Carnegie School of Home Economics (CSHE) is reinventing itself to make a more central contribution to the country’s hospitality and service sector and by extension to the country’s economy.

One of the weaknesses that Guyana will have to overcome if it is to stake a persuasive claim as a tourism destination is the absence of the high service standards which, these days, are increasingly demanded by international travellers.

(Trinidad Express) Republic Bank has submitted its Offeror’s Statement to HFC Bank and the Ghana Securities and Exchange Commis-sion (SEC) detailing its offer to all shareholders of HFC Bank, the bank said in a release on Wednesday.