Business

The Kuru Kuru Cooperative College is among the list of local institutions identified to provide training for small business owners who will benefit from material and technical support under the US$5 million project, ‘Building Alternative Livelihoods for Vulnerable Groups’.

Mercury poisoning has occurred in a number of places around the world.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 538’s trading results showed consideration of $6,397,190 from 210,208 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 537 which showed consideration of $9,591,410 from 181,448 shares traded in 13 transactions. 

Lethem is not what it used to be. The Rupununi’s largest township, with a population of approximately 7,000, lies on the Takutu River where it forms a border with Brazil.

Potential investors in value-added forestry products are being encouraged to examine some of the manufacturing options that might be available to the private sector under an initiative launched by the Forest Products Development and Marketing Council (FPDMC).

The growth and development of Roraima Airways has been a function of the focus and commitment of a man who concedes that he was not “born a businessman” and that he has “never really become preoccupied with measuring profits.”

By Clinton Urling All is not lost in the wake of the government’s failure to secure the passage of the Anti-Money Laundering Bill in the National Assembly though it will require mature and adaptive leadership on the parts of both the government and the opposition if we are to avoid the drastic economic consequences that could well accrue to the country’s economy.

Typically, the Credit Bureau operates at full functionality in developing markets with the primary goal of facilitating access to finance for small and medium-scale enterprises.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 537’s trading results showed consideration of $9,591,410 from 181,448 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 536 which showed consideration of $13,360,923 from 322,086 shares traded in 14 transactions. 

At a time when the high costs associated with delivering free health care at state-run facilities continues to place a strain on the public purse, the Report of the Auditor General continues to reflect grave misgivings about the management of pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies being held in various state-run bonds and storehouses under the control of the Ministry of Health.

Third Instalment The Shaking Table is very common in the mining industry in French Guiana.

This newspaper has grown accustomed to revelations contained in the Reports of the Auditor General, some, indeed many of which set out with considerable clarity the cavalier manner in which public funds are spent and the absence of accountability that attends the process.

Members of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union were on Sunday notified that the entity has been able to recover 50 per cent of the amount it had invested in the ill-fated Clico.

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The Machinery Corporation of Guyana Ltd (Macorp) is further consolidating its already considerable investment in providing critical technical support and services to the country’s mining sector with a $100 million investment in the establishment of a mining support facility at Port Kaituma.

Five years after the signing of a trade and development agreement between the Cariforum member states and the European Union aimed at adjusting the trading regime between the two regions, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Clinton Urling believes the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) has been underperforming as a tool for enhancing trading relations between Europe and the region.

The Government of Guyana has signed on to a complex agreement with the Government of Norway under which Guyana is to receive from Norway significant sums of money, in fact, tens of millions of US dollars, based on verifiable evidence of Guyana’s  preservation of its rainforests.

Second Instalment This series of articles is being published by the Stabroek Business in support of the initiative being undertaken by the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) to enhance public awareness of the mining sector’s thrust to reduce and eventually remove mercury from local gold-mining operations Many technologies exist that do not involve the use of mercury in the gold recovery process.

Public Relations Officer of the recently established Guyana Fashion Council (GFC) Andrea Braithwaite is optimistic about what the new organisation can do for the sector in Guyana.