Business

Sincerity Recent news reports indicated that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday ended up approving staffing appointments and promotions of persons working in the office of the Auditor-General (AG). 

Local public and private sector entities seeking cost-saving energy solutions are expected to be among the invitees to a breakfast seminar being hosted by the Trinidad and Tobago-based firm Energy Dynamics Ltd on Wednesday July 4 at the Pegasus Hotel.

In the June 21 issue of the Stabroek Business we published an article (Women In Business) on The Gift Centre proprietrix Doris Lewis in which we gave her husband’s first name as John.

The French-owned company Amazon Caribbean Guyana Ltd (Amcar Guyana Ltd) is mulling an investment in the cultivation of around 3,000 acres of heart of palm to consolidate raw material supplies in order to satisfy the demands of what the company’s owner and Chief Executive Officer says is a growing demand in France.

(Trinidad Newsday) State-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is looking for sale for four of the nine brand new ATR-72-600 turbo prop aircraft it ordered last year.

Lynette Mangar’s love affair with fashion and fabrics goes back to her childhood days of fine clothing turned out by her seamstress mother out of silks, organza, chiffon, tulle and calico.

Stock market update GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 465’s trading results showed consideration of $1,869,750 from 89,470 shares traded in 5 transactions as compared to session 464 which showed consideration of $3,009,806 from 44,102 shares traded in 12 transactions. 

On May 11 this newspaper published an editorial on the new Food Safety Modernization Act, signed into law by US President Barack Obama in the hope that both the Government of Guyana and the private sector would be reminded of the need to take action to address what is in fact the most sweeping reform of US food safety laws in more than half a century and, more importantly from our vantage point, probably the most formidable threat ever to access to the US market for local exporters.

Even as government announced last week that it had approved temporary licences to 12 unnamed persons to import chicken in an effort to ease a protracted shortage and stabilize prices on the local market, Head of the Caribbean Poultry Association (CPA) Dr Desmond Ali, has issued a call to Caricom countries to guard against the importation of “old meat” from the United States.

With packaging and promotion continuing to prove a challenge to efforts by local enterprises to expand their market share in the region as much as in North America and Europe, Associated Packers Incorporated (API) has taken a small but significant step to begin to raise standards.

This is not the first time that the Government of Guyana has intervened to address a shortage of poultry meat on the local market by granting licences for the temporary importation of limited quantities of a commodity that has long been an important part of the local diet.

Watchwords In the 2012 budget presentation, the government talked about changing the way in which Guyanese would be educated, the manner in which business would be done, the way in which government services would be delivered and the way jobs would be created. 

Starr Computers’ Mike Mohan reflects on the days when his company pioneered the assembling of computers here in Guyana and began marketing the ‘locally manufactured’ machines under its own brand – Starr.

Doris Ann Lewis couldn’t convey the persona of a hard-nosed businesswoman even if she tried.

Six nights a week, while most of the city sleeps or pursues its alternative nocturnal activities, the Georgetown ferry stelling, more particularly an area just north of the headquarters of the Guyana Fire Service, becomes a hive of commercial activity.

Last year, Netram Ramanan decided to expand his fruit juice operation by seeking markets outside Guyana.

An air of expectancy has been created in Rosignol and neighbouring communities as the first major shopping mall on the West Coast Berbice enters the final stages of construction.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) and the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) are working to help local businesses to secure financial, technical and marketing support available to enhance their competitive capacity on the regional and international markets.

Not widespread The year 2011 was one in which Guyanese went to the banks for additional cash to spend on their household needs.