Business

Due to circumstances beyond our control we were unable to publish part II of the promised three-part series on Performance management Practices by the Trinidadian consultant Averil Williams.

Guyanese businesswomen are poised to benefit from the newly formed Caribbean Women Entrepreneurs (WEN) established last March and arising out of a forum for Caribbean women entrepreneurs organized by the United States State Department’s Global Women’s Issues Initiative being led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Guyana’s apiculture industry may still be light years away from matching the honey production levels of the global giants but President of the newly formed Guyana Apiculture Society (GAS), Karl Persaud believes that there are significant economic gains to be realized from the sector if it can secure a heightened level of private sector interest and a more generous measure of public sector support.

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has voiced her country’s concern to US President Barack Obama over what she says are policies by developed countries that allow for easy credit, threatening the growth of emerging economies like Brazil’s.

Guyana’s 2012 budget proposals have outlined plans for supporting the development of the country’s small business sector through the Small Business Bureau established under the 2005 Small Business Act.

Government continues to ‘talk up’ the dominant role which the extractive industries  are poised to play in the Guyana economy with Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh using his 2012 budget presentation to outline the positioning of those industries as major contributors to what he described as the country’s “economic transformation over the next five years.”

In the section of his 2012 budget presentation that deals with small business, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh has signaled what now appears to be government’s readiness to activate the provisions of the Small Business Act.

Suriname Airways

Scrutiny In the last few days, the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) has come under intense press scrutiny for a financial decision that it made about generators used in its operations.

Ulric Ceres is upbeat about the prospects for the growth of Guyana’s air cargo service industry.

By B.A. Barrington When you talk with ordinary residents of New Amsterdam and its environs you get a sense of growing unease over economic conditions in the community.

 This is the first in a series of three articles on Performance Management Practices prepared for The Stabroek Business by the Mersu Caribbean Consulting Group, a Trinidad and Tobago-based Image Management, Public Relations and Business Consulting Group  By Averil Williams    The current global recession has forced companies worldwide; to take a step back and utilize their analytical lenses to relook the way performance management is handled, and to enhance the methods that are used in conducting business.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 454’s trading results showed consideration of $2,586,742 from 213,324 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 453 which showed consideration of $1,059,385 from 78,653 shares traded in 10 transactions. 

Suriname Airways’ April 3 inaugural flight between Georgetown and Miami ushers in what promises to a ground-breaker in the relationship between the two South Ameri-can Republics, the airline’s Guyana Repre-sentative Rudi Westerborg told Stabroek Business in an exclusive interview on Wednesday.

A Bangkok-based company is seeking to establish a multi-million-dollar company in Guyana to manufacture mercury-free mining equipment which it says it hopes to sell not only to Guyana but to other gold-producing countries in South America.

There was no mistaking the sense of optimism and enthusiasm in the tone of Suriname Airways Guyana Representative Rudi Westerborg during the briefing which he gave this newspaper earlier this week on the airline’s new twice weekly service between Georgetown and Miami which commences on April 3.

Air Fares

Public Accountability Most times when there is an appeal for public assistance, it is the Police seeking help finding a suspect or some vulnerable community or needy individuals in search of government aid. 

Stacy Thomas is assertive about her skills as a cake maker.

Stakeholders in Guyana’s multi-million dollar cosmetics industry may have noted the recent disclosure by the Ministry of Health’s Food and Drugs Department (FDD) regarding the presence in skin lighteners and other beauty products of potentially harmful levels of mercury, but are not prepared to go public on an issue which Head of the FDD Marilyn Collins says we have every reason to worry about.