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Guyana continues to lag behind other Caribbean countries in the Information and Communication Technology Sector (ICT) despite the manifest potential of the sector to contribute to the country’s development, Senior Vice President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Lance Hinds told a forum at the Pegasus Hotel last week.

– seeks to reform waste disposal culture Thirty years after it first commenced operations in 1983, Caribbean Container Inc (CCI) is seeking to come into its own in more ways than one.

The University of Guyana (UG) continues to come under sustained criticism for reasons that have to do with deficiencies in the quality of service it provides.

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Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Clinton Urling has described last week’s disclosure by President Donald Ramotar that the sugar industry was in crisis as “very bad” but “not entirely surprising” news.

Ken Peters has spent the last nine years or so working as one of the leading agents for Caribbean Container Inc (CCI), a local company that operates an integrated paper recycling and corrugated box manufacturing entity at Farm, East Bank Demerara.

Members of the Board of the Guyana Cooperative Credit Union League (GCCUL) concede that credit unions in Guyana have seen better times.

Just weeks after a local professional body utilised a high-profile forum to criticise the quality of graduates in a key discipline being produced by the University of Guyana (UG), one of the country’s leading business support organisations (BSOs) has praised the university for producing high-quality graduates in another discipline.

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NOTICE Due to considerations of space we would be unable to publish the second instalment of Talking Points (Corruption and entrepreneurship) in this issue of the Stabroek Business.

Public Face Every so often, a story is told or a report appears in the media about public-private partnerships. 

Senior government and private sector officials including President Donald Ramotar and the heads of the country’s major Business Support Organisations (BSOs) will participate in what is being billed as a major two-day National Economic Forum (NEF) to discuss “key emerging issues relevant to Guyana’s development”, while outlining a vision of where Guyana wants to be in the next two decades.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) says it is backing women and young people between the ages of 18 and 35 to create a countrywide micro and small business culture that can serve as “effective catalysts in creating jobs for the country’s rapidly developing economy.”

By Rawle Lucas Cannot be overturned As noted in last week’s submission, the administration controls the entire procurement process in the public sector. 

Though they are mindful not to strike an ultra-feminist posture, both Judy Semple-Joseph and Michelle Johnson are unpretentious about the role which the Venture Out!

But for the fact that he has infused a measure of contemporary communication technology into the service that he provides, the pursuits of Deodat Ramsukh bear a conspicuous resemblance to those of the traditional Bell Crier.

The Corentyne business community is leaving no stone unturned in its effort to keep pace with the building boom that is unfolding in the capital and other parts of the country.

Suresh Chandra Budhoo is part of a rich tradition of gold and silver jewellery production, which has long been an inherent part of the economy of the Ancient County.

Entrepreneurship as a prerequisite for economic growth “Jobs are a priority for every country.