Local tourism sector probably at an all time low – consultant
Tourism investment and training consultant Maureen Paul has told Stabroek Business that she feels that the sector is in the doldrums.
Tourism investment and training consultant Maureen Paul has told Stabroek Business that she feels that the sector is in the doldrums.
Authorities neglected squatter problem for years – source A senior local aviation official with first-hand knowledge of the existing security arrangements at the Cheddi Jagan Interna-tional Airport, Timehri, has accused the authorities of long-standing and unacceptable indifference” to security at the country’s only international airport.
GASCI Summary of Financials Session 269 Sep 15, 2008 Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.
Few recent corruption-related revelations – and there have been quite a few in recent years – have attracted the same level of public attention as the alleged Customs/Fidelity fraud.
Cautions against ‘downside’ to tourist economy Retired Commonwealth Secretary General Sir Shridath Ramphal has told Stabroek Business that he believed that the Caribbean had been “seduced” by the short term gains deriving from the economic returns from tourism and has warned that the region must be mindful of its “downside”.
-will further affect ties with international aviation industry The security challenges facing the authorities at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri are well beyond their capacity to effectively address in the short-term and the most effective immediate response would be to temporarily deploy ranks from the Guyana Defence Force to secure the airport after dark.
There really is little more that can be said about the customary depositing of piles of garbage on streets and parapets and in drains in the commercial areas of Georgetown save and except that that there is no evidence whatsoever that the municipality, the state or the business community are prepared to treat the practice as a problem deserving of urgent remedial attention.
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.
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