Business

By Andre Griffith With the start of the new school year, the issue of intellectual property is again receiving attention with the widespread pirating of textbooks.

Villagers at Hopetown, West Coast Berbice are echoing a cry for jobs heard across the country, though for them it seems more urgent as the majority of its youthful population are new graduates.

General Secretary of the Caribbean Congress of Labour Lincoln Lewis formally receiving a cheque  and a number of computers from United  States-based Guyanese Odell Taitt on behalf of the Mark Benschcop Foundation.

IFC finds no major reforms In the absence of any major regulatory business reforms within the past year Guyana has slipped ten places in the global rankings on the ease of doing business, standing at 105 out of 181 countries.

PSC secures CIDA funding for capacity building Stabroek Business has learnt that a meeting between government and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to discuss tax reform measures is likely to take place in the near future.

Says regional divisions reflect dangerous fracture in Caribbean diplomacy Retired Commonwealth Secretary General and former Guyana Foreign Minister Sir Shridath Ramphal has said that the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between CARIFORUM and the European Union (EU) “is anti-CARICOM, anti Caribbean integration and anti-Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME)” and that the current regional divisions on the signing of the agreement is “a manifestation of a lack of cohesiveness and, ultimately, a lack of vision in terms of our priorities” that raises serious questions about how the cohesiveness of the Caribbean is going to be sustained.

GASCI Summary of Financials Session 268 Sep 08, 2008Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

Mc Lean labels practice ‘corporate vulgarity’ Two senior officials of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) have launched a scathing attack on what they say is the worsening practice by businesses in the urban commercial sector of dumping garbage on city streets, parapets and in drains and have said that a point has now been reached where the practice should attract the strongest possible legal sanctions.

By Rawle Lucas Fight against poverty There is plenty of excitement about the potential of micro and small businesses to help people get out of poverty. 

By Rowland Fletcher – Agronomist The Savannah Dream:When American businessman Stan Greene of Global Agri notoriety arrived in Guyana sometime in 1969, with a grandiose plan in his briefcase to convert the Kibilibiri Savannahs into a major grain (corn and soyabean) producing farmstead which would have been renamed Jordanville, the government of the day viewed its implementation as the realization of their agricultural diversification dream, and seized the opportunity.

Omai Gold Mines Limited (OGML) and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) are expected to conclude an agreement shortly under which Omai will pursue mineral exploration at Eagle Mountain in the Potaro area.

Says book pirating sends negative signals to investors The United Kingdom-based publishing company Hansib secured more than G$2m in book sales during the period of Carifesta 2008, according to Arif Ali, the company’s owner.

Mr Arif Ali, a Guyanese who migrated to the United Kingdom more than half a century ago and who, during that time, has become the most successful publisher of Caribbean origin in Europe, has openly made the Government of Guyana an interesting proposal.

The promotion of intra-regional commerce as a mechanism for accelerating the CARICOM Single Market process  is one of the key goals of the new on-line shopping service launched by  Giftland Office Max, according to the company’s President Roy Beepat, speaking with Stabroek Business earlier this week Beepat said that one of the company’s immediate objectives was to place the new on-line service at the disposal of local manufacturers seeking to promote their products and to win new markets in the Caribbean.

Company concerned about its environmental image –Mc Lean Mining areas previously occupied by  Omai Gold Mines Ltd (OMGL) and which have been illegally invaded and despoiled by other mining operations since the closure of the company’s operations are to be excised from OMAI property, according to the company’s Human Resources Manager Major General Norman Mc Lean.

– GSBA President The establishment of a Credit Bureau to help provide funding for the development of small and incubating businesses remains one of the main hurdles to the creation of a thriving small business sector in Guyana, according to President of the Guyana Small Business Association (GSBA) Patrick Zephyr.

The wholesale copying and resale of published school texts is one of the many distasteful facets of copyright infringement in Guyana today.