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Their aim, they say, is to utilise the opportunities afforded by information technology to provide the best possible promotional platform for Guyana and for what the country has to offer.

Chief Executive Officer of the country’s recently launched Credit Bureau, CreditInfo (Guyana) Inc Judy Semple-Joseph has told Stabroek Business that much of the work of the institution in the period ahead will be focused on enhancing public understanding of the role of the Credit Bureau and how it functions.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 534’s trading results showed consideration of $664,454 from 34,269 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 533 which showed consideration of $2,066,876 from 102,109 shares traded in 6 transactions. 

The head of one of country’s leading commercial banks on Monday mounted a spirited defence of the banking sector against sustained charges from the small business sector that its borrowing conditionalities are invariably onerous and frequently unattainable.

In the week that Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud signed the Minamata Convention on Mercury in Japan this newspaper monitored two mercury-related stories in sections of the international media that had to do with the use and effects of the toxic metal.

In 2006, the Government of Guyana and the Private Sector jointly conceived and developed what was to become one of the more important policy papers to come out of any other collaborative effort between these two entities.

‘Eat what you grow, grow what you eat.’ This was the slogan in the mind of Dr Ian Thompson, lecturer in Food Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Mona, when in 2011 he made a composite cassava wheat bread as a substitute for regular wheat bread.

Lack of attention to customer concerns in a range of key and critical public and private sector service entities across Guyana has saddled the country with a “poor” reputation for customer service, local International Develop-ment Consultant Joycelyn Williams told a seminar hosted by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Tuesday.

While Caribbean Community (Caricom) governments are showing signs of a greater sense of earnestness in their pursuit of enhanced levels of food security, the realisation of that goal continues to be threatened by huge expenditures on high volumes of imported foods.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 533’s trading results showed consideration of $2,066,876 from 102,109 shares traded in 6 transactions as compared to session 532 which showed consideration of $2,189,173 from 10,163 shares traded in 9 transactions. 

After 20 years in the business of fashioning craft Kenneth Nelson – Ras Judah to the brothers and sisters of the faith – is unsure of the condition of the industry.

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The jury may still be out on the health and nutritional issues that attend the proliferation of international food franchises in developing countries, but those considerations are doing little to deter Guyanese investors.

In the same interview during which she told us she believed Caribbean governments were displaying evidence of a greater sense of urgency as far as the food security of the region is concerned, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Resident Representative Dr Lystra Fletcher-Paul conceded that the pace of change was, perhaps, not matching the urgency of the situation.

On Thursday afternoon last, GuyExpo XV was declared open by President Donald Ramotar, who, along with the various other functionaries, said his piece about the event being billed as the country’s premier trade show.

A near interminable wait for the launch of the US$10 million Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) Project comes to an end on Monday with the unveiling of the first phase of the project by President Donald Ramotar at the International Conference Centre at Liliendaal.

For all the vigorous and, frankly, fanciful and far-fetched efforts of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) to sell GuyExpo XV as a flawless success, it is patently obvious that nothing can be further from the truth.

For the past ten years a determined group of women have been journeying by boat, tractor and trailer, truck and Canter to Georgetown and to GuyExpo.

Nandkishore Andrews is one of those exhibitors whom we were desperately hoping would put in an appearance at GuyExpo XV.