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Airstrips, navigational aids, security, search and rescue capacity all deficient …Mekdeci The privately-run aviation sector is so concerned about what it says is the lack of qualifications and competence of the serving Flight Inspector at the Guyana Civil Aviation Autho-rity (GCAA) that it offered some months ago to meet the salary costs of a qualified replacement.

By Karen Abrams I have met Captain Gerry Gouevia, the Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways.

By Peter R Ramsaroop Overview Last week I started a short series on critical issues as it relates to our farmers and recommended major improvements in order for them to be able to strategically position themselves to improve their products, marketability and financial results.

GASCI Summary of Financials Session 243

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 243’s trading results showed consideration of $13,489,102 from 398,314 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session 242 which showed consideration of $3,627,631 from 160,576 shares traded in 24 transactions.

The consortium of local aircraft owners who hold a lease agreement with the Government of Guyana for the development of the Ogle Aerodrome has declined to comment on the possible reasons for the protracted delay in the release of funds provided by the European Development Fund (EDF) – and being administered by the Government of Guyana – for the second phase of the modernization of the facility.

The raft of recommendations contained in the recently completed report on the reform of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) can only be effectively implemented if they are energetically supported by the political administration including President Bharrat Jagdeo according to an informed NIS source.

The privately-run aviation sector is so concerned about what it says is the lack of qualifications and competence of the serving Flight Inspector at the Guyana Civil Aviation Autho-rity (GCAA) that it offered some months ago to meet the salary costs of a qualified replacement.

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Few phenomena account more for the slow economic growth and the frustrations of normal domestic life in Guyana than our electricity supply system.

I have met Captain Gerry Gouevia, the Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone N

Overview Last week I started a short series on critical issues as it relates to our farmers and recommended major improvements in order for them to be able to strategically position themselves to improve their products, marketability and financial results.

Illegal “hookups” and other forms of electricity theft across the country are costing the Guyana Power anf Light Company (GPL) more than two and a half billion dollars in lost revenue annually and according to the company’s Chief Executive Officer Bharrat Dindyal stamping out a problem which he says is strangling the electricity generation sector is not as simple as it may appear.

The long-awaited report on the reform of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is now completed and while the details of its contents are yet to be made public, some of its key recommendations – including the recommendation that the age of retirement be upped from 60 to 65 are already known.

Stabroek Business has been informed by an aviation industry source that Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Transport Minister Robeson Benn were passengers on the Air Services Ltd.

Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

Concerns over visitor safety in the wake of the recent attacks at Lusignan and Bartica by gunmen that left twenty-four people dead “have all but shut down several of the country’s interior nature resorts,” compounding an already difficult situation for the country’s tourism sector, according to Managing Director of the Roraima Group of Companies Captain Gerry Gouveia.

The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) has fingered a gang that is linked to the theft of transformers and other metal-based materials from its Sophia depot.

Overview: The low coastal plain represents the main area agricultural activity in Guyana which lies 1.5m-1.0m below sea level and extends from Pointe Playa to the Corentyne River.