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A study aimed at confirming the status of the tourism industry as a significant contributor to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) could be completed by year end,

We do not know enough to pronounce with  any authority on the claims made earlier this week by laid off workers at the NPIC Call Centre regarding their conditions of work, though some of those claims bear a striking resemblance to complaints made by employees of call centres in other parts of the world.

Laptop conditions

Lagging The Guyana Marketing Corpo-ration was rejiggered. The Nation-al Agricultural Research Institute is to be reconfigured. 

Local furniture designers Liana Cane has been awarded the prestigious Canadian Design Lines Award at the January 2011 Interior Design Show (IDS11) held in Toronto.

The Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA) is seeking to generate local private sector interest in participating in the Third China/Caribbean Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum scheduled for Trinidad and Tobago later this year.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 395’s trading results showed consideration of $2,341,227 from 113,163 shares traded in 16 transactions as

Pegasus Chairman Robert Badal earlier this week confirmed with this newspaper that the local operating franchise for the chicken and seafood restaurant, Popeyes, which he has held since 2003, has been sold to another Guyanese businessman.

The long-practiced scourge of illegal copying and distribution of published school texts may soon be engaging the attention of the court as overseas publishers, their agents in Georgetown and the few remaining local bookstores  seek to launch a counter-offensive against pirates who have been operating with impunity for years.

Since the formal opening of the Takutu Bridge in September 2009 by President Bharrat Jagdeo and then Brazilian President Luis Ignacio Lula Da Silva, there has been a significant intensification of public discourse regarding the prospects of stronger trade and economic ties between Guyana and Brazil.

Tax act In presenting the 2011 budget, the administration informed the country that it was reducing the tax rates that were applied to the income of commercial and non-commercial companies doing business in Guyana. 

The Business Cartoon

By Clinton Urling Recently, I took my sons to the Guyana Zoological Park, hoping to show them many of the animals they see in books and on television.

A more proactive local construction sector can benefit from external market opportunities including existing ones in the Caribbean, President of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) Clinton Williams told Stabroek Business in a telephone interview earlier this week.

Commercial Boulevard at Happy Acres on the East Coast Demerara appears at first to be an ideal setting for a quiet, gated community.

The resurgent trend in the Caribbean’s tourism industry may turn out to be a mixed blessing for the region as increasing numbers of visitor arrivals spur greater demand for imported foods to cater to their tastes.

Final InstalmentIntroduction This is the third and final part of a short series of articles on the Guyana Coali-tion of Services Providers (GCSP) and Promoting the Services Sector in Guyana.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 394’s trading results showed consideration of $5,886,590 from 167,758 shares traded in 19 transactions as compared to session 393 which showed consideration of $598,592 from 35,223 shares traded in 14 transactions. 

– say Webster error should not have occurred Public interest in President Bharrat Jagdeo’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPT) project took a new turn over the past two days following the admission by Junior Finance Minister Jennifer Webster that the figure of $295,000 per laptop which she quoted in the National Assembly on Tuesday was in fact US$295.