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BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is reversing some of the populist policies that defined her first six years in power and will have little choice but to stick to the new, more pragmatic path over the remaining 20 months of her final term.

(Trinidad Guardian) Radisson’s new hotel in Trinidad, previously the Crowne Plaza Hotel, will have a “dramatic” impact on the hotel industry in T&T, said Maxine Richards, director of marketing at Radisson Trinidad Hotel.

The Friday April 11 issue of the Stabroek Business published an article in which it was erroneously stated that Rubis had introduced a new Composite Cooking Gas Bottle in Guyana.

President of the Essequibo Paddy Farmers Association (EPFA) Naith Ram is keen to remove what he says might be the misconception that the emergence of a large, reliable market under the ongoing PetroCaribe agreement with neighbouring Venezuela has dramatically altered the fortunes of rice farmers in Essequibo.

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After Haiti’s devastating January 2010 earthquake Mark Jacobs headed there, seeing the need to be relevant and seeking, simultaneously, to follow his own childhood calling.

A succession of occurrences, incidents and accidents in the past year or so have placed the spotlight on the aviation sector, which, customarily, would appear to favour getting on with what it has to do in conditions of quiet diligence and placing itself in the public domain only when it becomes necessary to do so.

Government is yet to recognize the potential of tourism in the development of the Guyana economy, President of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) Christopher ‘Kit’ Nascimento has declared.

This week’s public announcement by Trans Guyana Airways that it will be increasing the frequency of its air service to Lethem to three flights daily attests to the growing economic and social focus of the Rupununi and the commensurate growing demand for the movement of people and material in and out of the region.

The current political administration, including President Donald Ramotar, has made some  definitive pronouncements regarding the country’s tourism potential and what is felt to be the contribution tourism can make to providing employment and growing the country’s economy.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Public company and bank audits conducted around the globe by units affiliated with the world’s six largest accounting firms are persistently riddled with flaws, a group of international regulators have found.

Harold Smith is one of a succession of Guyanese whose names are linked to the international shipping industry.

Rubis Guyana Inc West Indies Ltd may have every reason to believe that its new Lightweight Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) Composite Bottle may, potentially, provide a significant breakthrough in the cooking gas sector.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 558’s trading results showed consideration of $47,368,020 from 595,796 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 557’s trading results which showed consideration of $5,852,934 from 180,483 shares traded in 18 transactions.

Colwayne Morris believes he may be living through a significant period in the evolution of agricultural practices in Guyana and while he concedes that the shade house method is by no means new, he feels a point has been reached where its impact could significantly alter the face of local farming.

The local commercial banking sector last Friday used the Guyana Marketing Corporation-sponsored Agro-processors Forum to restate its concerns over the risks associated with lending to a weak and underdeveloped agro-processing industry.

Guyana’s predominantly small-scale, agro-processing enterprises continue to face inevitable and serious material and technical deficiencies that retard their development and slow the pace of their emergence as a major economic sector.

Great progress has been made in Guyana’s water and housing sectors over the last 10 years because the Government of Guyana has deliberately built capacity of special agencies dedicated to and focused on each of these.