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The Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.
The Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

Airport security crisis

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.

Stock market updates

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.

The Fidelity/ Customs report at last?

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.

Vulnerable: Aircraft and equipment on the ground at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri

Airport security challenges beyond capacity of authorities – Gouveia

-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.

Our garbage city: Talk about the crisis is no longer enough

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.

Promoting Enterprise

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.

Guyana slips in ease of doing business ratings

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.

EPA anti-CARICOM, anti integration, anti CSME – Ramphal

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.

Stock market updates

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.

Private Sector Commission Chairman Captain Gerry Gouveia

Private sector officials blast city businesses over garbage dumping

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.

The Savannah Dream:

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.

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