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– regeneration distant A succession of hard knocks in recent years has set the country’s timber industry on a downward slide from which it is unlikely to recover in the short term, President of the Guyana Forest Producers Association (GFPA) Khellawan told Stabroek Business in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.

– manager points to ‘reasonable’ Miami market share Suriname Airways could enter the Georgetown –New York market as early as the first half of 2013, once the company completes its planned January acquisition of an additional 737 aircraft to the two currently serving Guyana and the rest of the Caribbean, Guyana Station Manager Rudi Westerborg said.

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Earlier this week the Stabroek Business conducted an interview with two officials of the Forest Products Association (FPA) in order to secure a perspective on the state of the sector.

Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways Gerry Gouveia says that his company’s collaboration with four other entities in the local aviation sector to re-invent the Ogle Airport in a manner that allows it to respond effectively to the changing needs of the country’s aviation ranks among its more important missions at this time.

Infamous Offenders Even as a reconfigured parliament begins the slow but necessary process of forcing changes to the bad management practices of the government and bringing increased accountability to the use of public funds, Guyanese must again endure the embarrassment of being among some of the worst perpetrators of corruption. 

The second phase of an extensive local agricultural project aimed at popularising shade house farming technology in communities across the country is likely to kick off by March 2013, following the injection of a US$1.175 million grant from the Japanese Government, Head of the Partners of the Americas (Guyana) Project Myrtle Richards said.

Gloria Adams, Deborah Fraser and Beverley Halley are among more than a dozen members of the Central Mahaicony Perth Village Farmers Association, who have spent several years of their lives in one of the most arduous pursuits in the farming sector.

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      GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 488’s trading results showed consideration of $1,970,394 from 87,598 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 487 which showed consideration of $1,878,612 from 80,165 shares traded in 11 transactions. 

The leaders of two of Guyana’s private sector bodies have struck a decidedly upbeat note about the likely volume of retail trading during the next few weeks leading to Christmas.

– multi-million-dollar facility to be completed in 2013 A multi-million-dollar project that will culminate in the creation of Guyana’s first-ever ocean-front resort is to be undertaken by Roraima Airways Inc, the company’s Chief Executive Officer Captain Gerry Gouveia told Stabroek Business in an interview on Tuesday.

– spices and  condiments doing well on Caribbean, US markets Peppy’s, arguably, is one of the better examples of a local manufacturing entity on the rise, having survived the ravages of a devastating fire and the many and varied challenges confronting the manufacturing sector as a whole.

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At 24, Lexton Williams believes that his long-held addiction to creating fashion accoutrements out of leather and fabrics is just about beginning to pay dividends.

Commercial banks in Latin America and the Caribbean are demonstrating increased confidence in the viability of small and medium-sized entrepreneurial pursuits in the region, a development which is likely to see an increase in the level of credit by up to 77 per cent of commercial banks in Latin America and the Caribbean, a recent survey by the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) says.

The final quarter of the year is a busy period for Farina Fareed.

It is not just the festivities and good cheer that make Christmas ‘the most wonderful time of the year’; the season provides a lucrative windfall for persons engaged in a range of business pursuits.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 487’s trading results showed consideration of $1,878,612 from 80,165 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 486 which showed consideration of $4,802,161 from 66,627 shares traded in 9 transactions. 

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