The fatigue and tedium associated with having to continually focus public attention on the problems of garbage collection and disposal in the city and its environs is outweighed only by the importance of getting on top of the problem.
Every year, since 2000, the clothing, jewellery and trinkets bearing both the distinctive style and colours of Rastafari have been a feature of David Samuel James Morrison’s participation in GuyExpo.
The Debate The issue of budget deficits has been a hot topic of debate in the business, academic and international financial community for some time now.
The latest deferral of the second reading of the Telecommunications Bill has drawn comments from three senior private sector umbrella organisation officials, all of whom have told Stabroek Business that a point has been reached where the passage of the legislation ending the extant Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) monopoly had to be significantly accelerated.
Late last year the Ministry of Agriculture announced that it had met its counterpart agency in Suriname and discussions on “fishing issues” had led to an understanding that an agreement would be hammered out between the two countries.
Banks DIH Ltd and Demerara Distillers Ltd the country’s two major beverage manufacturers are on a committee set up by the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA) to prepare a position paper on the proposed amendment to the Customs Act that will see local drinks’ manufacturers having to pay a tax on receptacles.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 494’s trading results showed consideration of $14,421,381 from 486,358 shares traded in 27 transactions as compared to session 493 which showed consideration of $1,205,921 from 24,508 shares traded in 10 transactions.
The private sector has been less than diligent in pursuit of the appropriate lobbies to compel the government to address the issues that impact negatively on the well-being of the business community, Leader of the Opposition Brigadier David Granger told Stabroek Business in a telephone interview on Saturday.
As far as Annette Arjoon-Martins is concerned, Air Services Limited’s Flight Training School at Ogle is much more than a subsidiary of one of the most successful entities in the local aviation sector.
All of the talk that there has been about tourism and its potential to contribute more meaningfully to the country’s economy cannot gainsay the fact that Guyana is not even remotely close to being that tropical tourist paradise which has long been highly marketed to travellers from Europe and North America.
Small Flame As Guyanese gradually settle into the New Year and the trading season for 2013 gets on the way, it is a good time to review the performance of the Guyana Stock Exchange (GSE) during 2012.
Legitimate importers of school texts are almost certain to take “a cautious line” as far as the number of texts imported for the forthcoming school year is concerned since there is no certainty that last September’s court ruling prohibiting the publication and sale of ‘pirated’ school books in Guyana will guarantee the cessation of the practice, Proprietor of Austin’s Bookstore Lloyd Austin has told Stabroek Business.
Demerara Tobacco Company (Demtoco) has been named in the 2012 Caribbean Community Stock Market Review as the company whose shares posted the largest gain – 117.32% — for the year among the six stock exchanges in the region.
(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.
Stock market updates
Citing what it says have been “positive results and evident business growth and success among participants, Republic Bank Guyana Ltd has announced that it will further extend its support for EMPRETEC’s Venture Out For Women 2013 programme, by facilitating a total of $1 million in collateral-free loan prizes to the three participants in this year’s programme with the best business proposals.
Not for the first time, Guyana’s apiculture sector is making a case for a more generous measure of official attention.
The ban on mercury exports from the United States from January 1 this year is unlikely to have an impact on the country’s gold mining industry “for some time yet”.
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