Business

More weight In reading about small business in Guyana and elsewhere, quite often one encounters the words “entrepreneurship” and “small business” used interchangeably.

Providing the scientific capabilities to match the human resources in the practice of veterinary medicine in Guyana is critical to realising the goals of both delivering high quality foods to the table as well as enhancing market prospects for the country’s food exports.

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In response to pressure for the complete removal of mercury from the recovery process in the global gold-mining sector, Devindra Baldeo and Jhonny Marquez have teamed up and set themselves the ambitious task of working with the local industry in the search for a mercury-free method of gold recovery.

This Scotiabank ATM (automated teller machine)  situated at The Courtyard Mall on Robb street has – presumably for one reason or another – been out of service far too frequently over the past several months.

Ongoing upgrading work at Demico House, the flagship trading establishment of Banks DIH Ltd, is already contributing “positively” to the finances of the company, Board Chairman Clifford Reis said in his assessment of the company’s performance published last week as part of its half-yearly financial statement.

Local gold miners earlier this week attended a demonstration exercise for the RP4 Gravity Shaker Table, a mercury-free gold recovery method at the North Road premises of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA).

Clifford Reis’ brief summary of aspects of the performance of the group of companies comprising Banks DIH Ltd over the past six months, underscores the entity’s ongoing commitment to strengthening its capacity to provide the goods and services it offers to Guyanese consumers.

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Reform Last year, the administration introduced a bill aimed at reforming the telecommunications industry in Guyana. 

Rajkumar Seeram is hedging his bets in jewellery-making, an industry which these days, given the recent drop in gold prices has a fair measure of uncertainty.

Regent street in transition? This picture taken yesterday shows vending on the Regent Street on the very spot which, almost 12 years ago, a huge fire engulfed several business premises including the premises housing the Guyana Import/Export.

At 28, Habibah Atherley-McGregor demonstrates both the exuberance of youth and the eagerness to convert her creative talents into commercial success.

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Ramdat Sookraj has the wizened appearance of a man who has been a fixture on Guyana’s commercial landscape for more years than he cares to remember.

Outstanding loans from local commercial banks to the private sector stood at $82.3 billion at the end of last year, an increase in lending of $17.8 billion from the $64.5 billion outstanding at the end of the previous year, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Private Enterprise Development (IPED) Yesu Persaud disclosed in the institute’s 2012 annual report.

Swirling Around The economy of Guyana exhibited significant vibrancy last year in many ways. 

A curriculum for a local mining school which will, among other things, help train miners in the use of alternatives to mercury in the gold recovery process is expected to be created within one year, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Country Manager Dr Patrick Williams told Stabroek Business in a telephone interview on Tuesday.