Business

By Rawle Lucas (Rawle Lucas is a Guyanese-born Certified Public Accountant and Assistant Vice President of the Lending Services Division.

The Stabroek Business has agreed to publish this article on the culture of potable water use which was prepared by Guyana Water Inc.

Bounty cuts mark-up by 10% on essential commodities Bounty Farms Ltd.

-Auditor General’s report Deficiencies in the computer software package commissioned by City Hall to efficiently administer rates collection by the municipality may have compromised the entire rates collection system according to the recently completed report by the Office of the Auditor General arising out of a special investigation into the operations of the City Treasurer’s Department.

Parked containers, cordoned sections of pave add to commuter misery City Hall appears to be losing its protracted battle of attrition with vendors to bring a sense of order to some of the main streets in the capital as increasing numbers of itinerant traders occupy pavements and streets.

Says he will not preside over weak Commission Newly elected Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Captain Gerry Gouveia has told Stabroek Business that he has no intention of allowing differences of opinion between government and the private sector to derail the PSC’s agenda for the growth and development of the business sector specifically and Guyana in general.

The public face of Guyana Water Inc. The Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Water Inc Karan Singh strongly believes that the problems associated with the payment of water rates are, for want of a better word “cultural.”

Evadnie Fields-Benfield is the Information Co-ordinator at the Guyana National Bureau of Standards Introduction “In order to serve their intended purpose, the public must be able to trust certification marks”.

Engineers, managers desperately needed Rate collection figures released to Stabroek Business by the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) point to what Chief Executive Officer Karan Singh described as “an encouraging but still far from satisfactory” improvement in the response by consumers to appeals for the timely payment of water tariffs.

…while many starve and the environment suffers By Karen Abrams While food prices increase, and food shortages plague developing countries, producing countries lose a large supply of food annually to waste due to transportation, cold storage and distribution problems, while in developed nations like the UK, US, and Japan, consumers and organizations waste billions of dollars in food each year due to over buying, poor planning, busy schedules and a myriad of reasons explored below.

Part I By Andre Griffith Introduction This series looks at applications of information and communications technologies to traditional businesses in Guyana, and at some of the implications for the formation of a new business sector based on the so called atomic e-business models such as information processing, online retailing and others. 

The Guyana Police Consumers Co-operative Society has embarked on a special sales promotion drive to mark the 169th anniversary of the Guyana Police Force.

The private sector and investors from the Diaspora are inextricably tied together A recently retired Guyanese friend of mine who currently resides in Georgia just returned home from a two week visit to Guyana. 

Stabroek Business has learnt that new proposed amendments to existing mining regulations will, if implemented, result in dramatic increases in fines for environmentally-linked mining transgressions.

 The Trinidad and Tobago private sector will play a key role in driving the implementation mechanisms being created by the government to support its investment in the refashioning of the country’s agricultural sector in response to the global food crisis.

Three week ends ago, at the forum held in Georgetown to map out strategies for regional food security, Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Agriculture Arnold Piggot outlined the framework for his country’s national agri-business development programme, the twin-island Republic’s envisaged response to the global food crisis.

(Rawle Lucas is a Guyanese-born Certified Public Accountant and Assistant Vice President of the Lending Services Division.

By Karen Abrams Is the era of cheap food over? Strike one resulted in higher food prices due to rising oil prices, strike two resulted in yet higher food prices as many brilliant economic minds in the US encouraged corn ethanol production to combat steady rising oil prices, strike three continues to play out as Iowa; America’s breadbasket state, responsible for 18% of the nation’s corn production struggles to rebound from the recent disastrous floods.