Business

Stabroek Market Stallholders Association  President, Harold Dhanraj)
Stabroek Market Stallholders Association President, Harold Dhanraj)

New tarmac bus park cuts Stabroek market stallholders sales

Business dips 30 per cent in four weeks The decision to designate the Stabroek Market Square a parking area for dozens of minibuses plying several city routes has sent the volume of sales by Stabroek Market stallholders plummeting by at least 30 per cent over the past few weeks, according to the Stabroek Stallholders Association.

Town Clerk Beulah Williams

Final report on City Treasury probe due shortly

Report could frown on some procedures, regulations – Town Clerk The final report of the Office of the Auditor General into alleged anomalies in the management of the finances of the Georgetown municipality ordered by the City Council in January is due to be handed over shortly, “perhaps even in a matter of days,” according to Town Clerk Beulah Williams.

Tarmac parking

Stabroek parking woes should be high on urban business agenda

-stallholder The decline in the volume of trading at the Stabroek Market following the siting of a minibus park on the tarmac opposite the facility ought to be a matter of concern to the major urban umbrella business organizations since it could have a knock-on effect on trading in the wider commercial centre, a Stabroek Market stallholder has told Stabroek Business.

GWI to engage gov’t on food drive water implications

Guyana Water Inc (GWI)  Chief Executive Officer Karan Singh is to submit a paper to government setting out the implications of its  aggressive promotion of the current grow more food  campaign for likely increased water use and the possible knock-on effect on GWI’s operations.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 257’s trading results showed consideration of $6,360,453 from 570,467 shares traded in 20 transactions as compared to session 256 which showed consideration of $3,844,192 from 234,735 shares traded in 17 transactions.

Stock market updates

GASCI Summary of Financials Session 257 June 09, 2008Notes1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

The Regional food forum

Twice in recent days President Bharrat Jagdeo has made a point of bemoaning the chronic indifference of CARICOM countries to the development of their respective agricultural sectors and, by extension, their neglect of the importance of national and regional food security.

The Canadian Company Omai Gol Mines Ltd has made the single largest investment ever in Guyana’s gold mining industry

Canadian companies mindful of mining regulations, community concerns

-High Commissioner Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana Charles Court has said that relations between Guyana and Canada in the mining sector have benefited from the clear setting out by the Government of Guyana and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) of the regulations within which they expect mining activity to take place.

Responsible mining and enforcement

(BUSINESS EDITORIAL) If it seems as though fingers are frequently pointed at the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) over the surfeit of harmful practices  in the gold-mining sector that continue to injure the physical health of the host communities and damage the physical environment, that is only because it is the GGMC – in the final analysis – that is responsible for enforcing the regulations that govern mining practices.

Rickford Vieira

World Wildlife Fund pushing safer mining practices

Studies reveal mercury impact on humans, environment Even as Guyana’s gold mining sector  continues  to attract criticism from environmentalists and host community lobbyists over mining practices considered harmful to the human and physical environment, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Secretariat in Guyana says that it will continue to collaborate with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, (GGMC), the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA), local gold-miners, lobby groups  and mining communities to help move the industry towards more sustainable mining practices.

Guyana, Brazil to worker closer on conflict diamonds

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Acting Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) William Woolford met recently with Brazil’s Deputy Minister of Mines and Energy Claudio Seliar to discuss the ongoing commitment of the two countries to controlling the international trade in conflict diamonds.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 256’s trading results showed consideration of $3,844,192 from 234,735 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 255 which showed consideration of $1,321,280 from 61,608 shares traded in 8 transactions. 

Chief Executive Officer of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation  Ramesh Ghir

Roraima Airways equipment stolen, sabotaged at airport

A security breach at the Roraima Airways maintenance facility at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, has left the company with millions of dollars in losses from theft and deliberate damage to its ground handling equipment and raised wider questions about security within the fenced perimeter and restricted area at the country’s international airport.

GHARP official Deryck Cummings

HIV business coalition to home in on insurance

The new multi-sectoral Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS is to pay greater attention to the policies and practices of local insurance companies in relation to providing insurance services for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS  (PLWHA’s).

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