Business

Stock market updates

GASCI reports that session 515’s trading results showed consideration of $12,784,559 from 233,605 shares traded in 24 transactions as compared to session 514 which showed consideration of $11,852,403 from 542,896 shares traded in 16 transactions. 

Digital Technology at last Wednesday’s Chamber of Commerce Information Technology Forum
Digital Technology at last Wednesday’s Chamber of Commerce Information Technology Forum

Private sector technology think tank mulled

Starr Computers says local service providers in the business technology sector are likely to support such moves as the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) may make to develop “meaningful linkages” between equipment and service providers and businesses that can be both enhanced and protected by the technology that is coming on the market.

Focused and assertive private sector representation

Recent conversations with the Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) suggest that both organisations are keen to pursue agendas that have to do with enhancing the quality of the private sector and increasing its contribution to national wealth.

Bank of Guyana Governor  Lawrence Williams

Key FATCA forum weeks away

Local commercial banks are reportedly moving closer to developing modus operandi for compliance with the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) with the banking community preparing for a crucial meeting with the Bank of Guyana to make a presentation on their collective position on FATCA,

Arrowpoint owner Captain Gerry Gouveia and Kabalebo Nature Resort proprietor Karl Dawson at the Roraima Duke Lodge earlier this week.

Roraima, Suriname’s Kabalebo ink historic tourism MOU

Two nature resort owners in Guyana and Suriname are collaborating to launch an initiative designed to undertake the marketing of each other’s facilities in the respective countries along with a collective effort to aggressively promote ‘the three Guianas’ overseas.

Business Support Organisations and the urban garbage disposal crisis

If it has long been accepted that the filth and desecration that is commonplace on the streets and sidewalks and in gutters and alleyways in our city are, by and large, the remains of the trading day and that much of the onus is on our urban traders – whether they be street vendors or established merchants – to take some measure of responsibility for the disposal of garbage, the practice of indiscriminate dumping persists unabated.

Alfred Petty

IPED Berbice awardee reflects on 40 years in the electrical sector

Alfred Petty’s Unique Electrical & Consultancy Services, situated in Kent Street, New Amsterdam is an example of the many tough and resilient business enterprises that have waged a ceaseless struggle to ascend to the top of the proverbial pile without ever once contemplating that it might not get there.

Stock market

GASCI reports that session 514’s trading results showed consideration of $11,852,403 from 542,896 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 513 which showed consideration of $13,858,643 from 170,274 shares traded in 22 transactions. 

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