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DIGICEL Chief Executive Officer Dennis O’Brien has sounded a warning to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), its competitor in the local cellular service sector that it is seeking to overtake the Atlantic Tele Network subsidiary as Guyana’s leading service provider within the next six months.

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

The ongoing programme by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) to provide remote rural communities with radio telephone services is creating a significant transformation in the lives of residents of those communities, according to Allison Parker, the Company’s Public Relations Officer.

Caribbean-born residents of the United States and their second and third generation offspring represent a market of more than 25 million people worth around US$6 B that is yet to be effectively exploited by the region, according to United States-based Guyanese business consultant Karen Abrams.

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Although the Guyana Small Business Associa-tion (GSBA) deserves a measure of credit for putting together the recent forum at which the President of the Small Enterprising Business Association (SEBA) of Trinidad and Tobago Jonathan Adams made an enlightening presentation on the role that small business plays in that country, the fact that the forum attracted no more than a handful of people, many of whom cannot be described as small business owners in the true sense of the word, was a disappointment.

Given this is Agriculture month; I thought it appropriate to re-address a topic I have discussed many times in this column, that Guyana has the capacity as a nation to feed the entire region.

The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) continues to combine its contractual obligation to expanding and modernizing the telecommunications sector infrastructure in Guyana with a corporate commitment to utilizing the technological and other resources at its disposal to improve the quality of education in Guyana, according to Allison Parker, the company’s Public Rela-tions Officer.

The US dollar experienced its worst devaluation in recent times after decades of complete dominance in the International Financial Market.

Even as Caribbean countries contemplate the likely future impact of ethanol on their predominantly oil-importing economies, the United States may already be pondering the fate of the fuel which just recently was being regarded as a solution to any future global oil crisis.

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Business and entrepreneurial pursuits have always been viewed as belonging to the exclusive purview of men, while women were relegated to the “domestic track.”

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

Managing Director of EMPRETEC – Guyana Judy Semple-Joseph has told Stabroek Business that the organization’s October 10- 11, 2007 Marketing Practice Workshop seeks to provide a unique opportunity for small and medium-sized enterprises in Guyana to build marketing bridges with the region and with the United States and to enhance the marketing prospects of those enterprises where such prospects already exist.

As Guyanese and Surinamese both contemplate the implications of the award that has effectively settled the long-standing maritime dispute between the two South American Republics, officials in both George-town and Paramaribo appear optimistic that the demarcation of the maritime jurisdiction of the two countries significantly enhances their respective prospects of economically significant oil finds.

The news that Guyana’s prospects of a commercially viable oil find may have risen in the wake of the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) arbitral award in Guyana’s maritime dispute with Suriname passed with little public fanfare here.

In my article published in the September 14, 2007 issue of the Stabroek Business and titled “The Strategies for Sustainable Growth in the CSME”, I made reference to Dr.

Last week’s column dealt with the award to Guyana by the Arbitral Tribunal of the UN of maritime territory which had been a cause of dispute between Guyana and its neighbour and CARICOM partner Suriname, an area considered as having probable oil resources.

Sharon Barnwell nee Mitchell is one of many Guyanese residing overseas whose accomplishments in business are attracting more than passing attention.