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Part 2 By Roland Fletcher Previously we considered the economic plight of income earners in the Upper Berbice River communities and the opportunities availed by some pioneering and commercially oriented riverain farmers to legitimize their occupancy and farming operations in the Ebini and Wiruni / St Lust savannahs by securing long term leases to their savannah farm lands. 

No monolith (Rawle Lucas is a Guyanese-born Certified Public Accountant and Assistant Vice President of the Lending Services Division.

-UK-based Guyanese publisher ‘We cannot steal to educate our children’ Guyanese-born publisher Arif Ali has launched a withering attack on the practice of copyright infringement in Guyana and has said that the onus is on government to take action to stamp out the practice.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 266’s trading results showed consideration of $2,114,011 from 111,172 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 265 which showed consideration of $2,285,327 from 218,596 shares traded in 12 transactions. 

Strategic Plan to target tax reform A new four-year Strategic and Opera-tional Plan unveiled by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Wednesday lists the formal screening of membership applications to seek to determine possible links between businesses and drugs, money-laundering and counterfeit goods.

Controversy may be brewing between the Government of Guyana and the four private aircraft owners comprising Ogle Airport Inc following a decision by cabinet which threatens to further delay the creation of Guyana’s second international airport.

By Andre Griffith Last week we looked briefly at what is commonly referred to locally as the ICT sector. 

– A Stabroek Business Column dedicated to the ventilation of ideas pertaining to the current global food crisis and the response by Guyana and the Caribbean The current national focus on agro-industrial development as a response to the global and worsening food crisis must, of necessity in the upper Berbice River, take account of the Intermediate Savannahs.

East Coast project seeks to heal social wounds, boost business A collaborative effort involving the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Guyana Small Business Association (GSBA) has extended support to twenty-seven micro businesses in four communities along the lower East Coast corridor under what the UNDP says is its “Building Trust” fast track initiative to enhance community livelihoods.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 265’s trading results showed consideration of $2,285,327 from 218,596 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 264 which showed consideration of $1,314,985 from 40,391 shares traded in 8 transactions. 

Up until now the Four Year Strategic and Operational Plan ‘rolled out’ by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) last Wednesday is exactly what it says it is – a Plan, an ambitious and forward-looking Plan but a Plan, nonetheless; a work in progress.

An experimental gold-mining project in Choco, Colombia, designed to integrate the economic demands of the local communities with the imperative of environmental protection could be emulated in Guyana if agreement can be secured amongst the principal stakeholders in the gold-mining sector.

Anticipates meeting with President Jagdeo Chairman of the Guyana Telephone andTelegraph Company (GT&T) Cornelius B.

An article written by one of the contributors to a special Carifesta issue of the Guyana Review – which will be published a few days before the start of the event – makes the point that Guyana’s prevailing social, economic and political difficulties ought not to preclude us from being good hosts to what the celebrated Barbadian novelist George Lamming described recently as “one of the most profoundly political events this region continues to celebrate.”

By Andre Griffith Information technology systems made their mark as vehicles of efficiency. 

The protection of the most vulnerable sections of society from the impact of continually rising food prices and the increase in domestic food production to satisfy demand ought to be one of the “top priorities” on the agendas of governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a paper released by the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA).

Cosmetologist Carlene Collins is a thriving businesswoman with a social conscience. 

aWhile the hundreds of visitors expected to be in Guyana for the August 22-30 Carifesta X will provide welcome patronage for the struggling urban hotel sector, businesses in the capital’s commercial centre are not anticipating that the week of cultural activity involving local, regional and international  artistes will be marked by a spending spree.