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-authorities must move to rein in offenders, rescue abused guards Stabroek Business Editor Arnon Adams examines aspects of the crisis facing guards employed by private security firms and the need for government to take steps to check the excessesOn the day that I spoke with Candace she was exhausted, angry and famished.

Rawle Lucas is a Guyanese-born Certified Public Accountant and Assistant Vice-President of the Lending Services Division.

-Office of US Trade Commissioner High levels of child labour and trafficking in children persist in Guyana despite laws and regulations designed to eradicate these practices according to the Eighth Report to the US Congress on the Operations of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 339’s trading results showed consideration of $2,593,895 from 82,310 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 338 which showed consideration of $3,201,623 from 242,275 shares traded in 16 transactions. 

The recent call by the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) for a hastening of the pace of the CLICO liquidation process has secured the backing of the Heads of both the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

State TV among those guilty of intellectual property violation Guyana continues to lag behind in the process of seeking to update its domestic laws and trade policies to reflect its obligations to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) under the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements, according to the recently published Eighth Report to the United States Congress on the operation of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act by the Office of the US Trade Representative.

The Eighth Report to the US Congress on the operation of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act prepared by the Office of the United States Trade Representative has, briefly, but rather pointedly, drawn attention to the protracted delinquency of the Government of Guyana in the matter of creating an adequate legal framework for the protection of intellectual property.

Customer Service 8 By Jacquelyn Hamer I have decided that at this juncture some attention should be given to what one might consider to be some of the critical reasons why we continue to face the difficulties that we do in the area of customer service delivery.

By Rawle Lucas Rawle Lucas is a Guyanese-born Certified Public Accountant and Assistant Vice-President of the Lending Services Division.

Just over three months after its official opening downtown Georgetown’s most attractive shopping centre is seeking feverishly to raise its public profile Inside the Water street New Vendors’ City Mall there is an ambience of cleanliness and good order that contrasts sharply with the atmosphere   that attends the rest of downtown Georgetown.

An investment in old-fashioned taste and values If you happen upon the imposing concrete structure sitting squarely on the corners of Stone Avenue and Fourth Streets in Campbellville, it appears not to belong in a neighbourhood better known for and far more modest, older generation of architecture comprising rows of small, ageing one-flat dwelling houses built more than half a century ago.

Cites weak border controls, resource deficiencies, poor inter-agency cooperation Local drug traffickers continue to move shipments of cocaine by river, air and land without meaningful resistance from the country’s security services according to the Eighth Report to Congress by the Office of the United States Trade Representative on the Operation of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act.

-ILO, ECLAC reports While the full effects of the global economic and financial crisis on the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in 2009 are unlikely to be fully understood for some time yet, some of the earliest reports on the scale and impact by widely respected regional and international organizations are already painting a telling picture.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 338’s trading results showed consideration of $3,201,623 from 242,275 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 337 which showed consideration of $3,293,656 from 291,616 shares traded in 16 transactions. 

The New Guyana marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

Retail traders hoping to make up for tough year The commercial capital erupted into a frenzy of activity last week-end as urban dwellers provided the first real indication that they were genuinely stricken with the Christmas spirit.

Private sector investment in Guyana continues to be confronted by “significant hurdles” arising out of difficulties associated with the administration of justice according to a recently released review of the work of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Guyana.

The authorship of the recently released University of Guyana’s September 2009 – August 2012 Strategic Plan is underpinned by an uncharacteristic and refreshing frankness that breaks with a long-entrenched and thoroughly counterproductive practice of burying our heads in the sand about the cataclysmic and continuing decline of UG.