Business

Last Monday was one of those days when the weather was kind to the market vendors who ply their trade on the expanse of tarmac opposite Bourda Market, spanning the space between Robb Street and North Road.

For the past 15 years Joseph McCalman and his wife Joan have been an integral part of Guyana’s multi-million dollar hair and beauty industry; their reputations extending beyond owning and operating a beauty salon and into what, these days, is the equally lucrative pursuit of training mostly young women searching for career opportunities.

Historic occurrences are often known to have small beginnings. That may well be the case with Tuma Sàlà, which, according to shareholder Michael Patterson, is the country’s first Amerindian restaurant.

By Amos Sarrouy When gold was discovered in the Klondike in North Western Canada in the late 1800s, more than 1,000 people rushed to the area.

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This newspaper’s coverage of business issues over the past year or so has included extensive chronicling of the role that municipal markets play in the broader national commercial culture.

Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) RK Sharma on Saturday outlined the company’s strategic direction for the development of telecommunications locally, in the context of what it perceives to be its preeminent role in the sector.

Another local ICT service provider has weighed in the ongoing industry-wide controversy over the alleged leaden-footedness of the government in the allocation of bandwidth to private sector ICT service providers and what is widely believed to be the negative impact on the development of the sector.

Time and again in recent years the point has been made publicly that the significant increase in the construction of large buildings in various parts of the country ought to be more than sufficient cause for us to shine a more prominent spotlight on the issue of safety and health in the building sector.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 548’s trading results showed consideration of $10,741,266 from 364,899 shares traded in 20 transactions as compared to session 547 which showed consideration of $970,866 from 24,686 shares traded in 3 transactions. 

Guyana’s manufacturing sector can anticipate having to comply with a range of new occupational safety and health (OSH) regulations as the time draws closer for the enactment of legislation prepared for the sector by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Yogurt may not yet have secured a market share similar to fried chicken or hamburgers, but Gail Russell is determined to stake her claim, driven by the knowledge that she is in the business of selling a valuable commodity: healthy eating.

A month after investing more than $20 million in the creation of an outlet at Port Kaituma, North West District to serve the mining community, local Caterpillar distributor Macorp estimates that the new outpost could result in significant savings to miners.

Guyanese-born political scientist and regional security specialist Dr Ivelaw Griffith says that while the country’s gold industry is an important economic asset, it has also emerged as a source of security vulnerability.

The Forest Products Development and Marketing Council Guyana Inc. (FPDMC) in its efforts to promote the export of timber products have over time held a series of awareness seminars with stakeholders in the industry.

Roraima Airways Chief Executive Officer Captain Gerry Gouveia says he has “ongoing concerns” over the fact that the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has the “lead responsibility” in local aviation accident investigation.

Starr Computers has initiated the first of a planned series of training programmes for staffers in its technical department aimed at equipping them to service and repair contemporary, high-end Samsung Smart Televisions.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 547’s trading results showed consideration of $970,866 from 24,686 shares traded in 3 transactions as compared to session 546 which showed consideration of $11,069,577 from 555,767 shares traded in 14 transactions. 

Exploratory discourses between Research Director of the College of Agriculture, Family Sciences and Technology at the Fort Valley State University (FVSU), Georgia USA Dr Govind Kannan and Guyana government officials could lead to multi-faceted collaboration between Guyana and the US-based university aimed at enhancing capacity in the country’s agricultural sector.