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While Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority Khurshid Sattaur has been touting the recently instituted Random Selection of Imported Goods for Examination exercise as a means of impacting positively on the level of transparency associated with Customs inspections of imports, the private sector has been expressing its own sometimes divergent views on the process.

(Trinidad Express) – The investigation of white collar crime in Trinidad and Tobago is non-existent, attorney and anti-money laundering expert David West said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s purchase of fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion stunned the markets but analysts said the deal made strategic sense as it will solidify the social network’s position as a leader in mobile.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 551’s trading results showed consideration of $4,352,071 from 102,665 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session 550 which showed consideration of $52,981,402 from 437,637 shares traded in 9 transactions. 

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One of the more forgettable memories of our annual Mashramani celebrations is the utterly deplorable state in which the streets, walkways, and canals are left once the revellers have come and gone.

Cecil ‘Sugar’ Raghoobeer and his wife Zorena have become a popular business team amongst the vendors at Mon Repos, Stabroek and Bourda markets and at several hotels in the city.

Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Zulfikar Mohammed has declined to commit either his agency or the government to a policy of making the findings of investigations into local aviation incidents public.

Banks DIH Ltd, Guyana’s leading beverage manufacturer and a fixture among vendors on the Mash Day route has confirmed that this year’s high vending prices has compelled it to change the method of its operations.

Part of the problem, which we continue to highlight, in bringing deficiencies in areas of public sector service delivery into the public domain and seeking to have those deficiencies corrected, has to do with the disinclination of public officials to ‘come clean’ on issues that are officially deemed to be sensitive.

Jason Kingston still reflects on those days when, as a young man, he wore tailored trousers, cut and sewn to fit the contours of his lower body.

After almost two years of collaboration with the United States Department of State and the US Embassy in Guyana, the Guyana Chapter of the Women Entrepre-neurs Network Caribbean (WEN Caribbean) is now ready to implement and manage local projects designed to build entrepreneurial capacity among local women.

(Jamaica Observer) – INTERCARIBBEAN Airways will invest millions to execute its regional expansion that includes offering airlinks between Jamaica and the Latin Caribbean, according to management.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Jamaica Observer) — Caribbean tourists are spending more money during their visits to the region, with the jump in expenditure surpassing the rise in arrivals for the first time in three years, according to new statistics.

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 Garrick Hileman, an economic historian at the London School of Economics, is the founder of MacroDigest.com.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 550’s trading results showed consideration of $52,981,402 from 437,637 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 549 which showed consideration of $2,542,431 from 105,531 shares traded in 15 transactions. 

Time was when the expression ‘it’s a dog’s life’ was meant to convey an existence characterised by tough times, sacrifice, even privation.

Roraima Airways Chief Executive Officer Captain Gerry Gouveia is calling for “the immediate release of official reports into aviation incidents, occurrences and accidents into the public space” as a starting point for divesting the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of responsibility for conducting such probes.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 549’s trading results showed consideration of $2,542,431 from 105,531 shares traded in 15 transactions as compared to session 548 which showed consideration of $10,741,266 from 364,899 shares traded in 20 transactions.