Business

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.

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.