Comments on: Safeek and Venezuelan firm sign $1.75B deal

By: Charriot

Charriot — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:01:56 +0000

Think!!! XM and DDL are reknown worldwide and are top shelf worldwide. This Venezuelan is smart, he’s investing in rum to have a cheaper brand of Guyana’s Gold for the Central and Latin American market. When the spanish man see MADE IN GUYANA they will buy it.

LONG LIVE PRODUCTION!!!!!

By: Charriot

Charriot — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:51:52 +0000

The rum is going to Venezuela and the rest of Latin and Central America.

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:55:41 +0000

tahs good but all of the Rum shoulb be exported and heavely tax

By: Light

Light — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:54:33 +0000

As long as these businesses and investments, are done with transparency and accountably and within the rule of law, they should be encouraged.
Private investments and businesses, have been repressed and disincentivised, particularly, in the undemocratic era of the PNC’s anti imperialism/socialism.
It is entrepreneurism and private businesses, which have the potential and capacity in a democratic environment, to move the country foward economically and helpt to raise the standard of living in the society.
The administration has the responsibility to put in place the necessary legal, institutional and administrative framework, to help limit and eradicate substance abuse in the society.
As for competion; it is intrinsic to a democratic society and the development and growth of the private sector, essentially, it helps to calibrate both economic and political institutions, to make them function more accountably and efficiently.

By: MR.WEST BANK

MR.WEST BANK — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:06:02 +0000

You hit the nail right on the head Thomas.

By: MIKE SMITH

MIKE SMITH — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:11:13 +0000

just let me know how i can make some money on the deal to hell with the politics, look at it this way if we dont produce the dam rum someone else will do it so let ouer people do it. long live GUYANA.

By: rambler

rambler — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:45:15 +0000

Please examine who the investors are: they recently admittted to smuggling beer into the country as soft drink. This is a known fact. This is who the PPP is welcoming as investors.

By: bishnu R

bishnu R — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:29:52 +0000

THINK EXPORT.

By: Satish

Satish — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:56:09 +0000

I was feeling optimistic about this piece of news until I saw that Mundial Maquinas C.A. was going to produce alcohol.

This company is plainly using the soft drinks and biscuits production bait as the TROJAN HORSE to capture the Guyanese alcohol drinkers because we know the BIG MONEY is not in the biscuits or soft drinks but in the far more expensive alcohol products.

Worse still, Guyana has its own indigenous alcohol producers and faced with this new competition, those companies may be eaten up by this conglomerate.

It is nevertheless good to see that unlike Surinam, Venezeula is trying to live well with its neighbours but Mundial Maquinas should stick to producing soft drinks and biscuits ONLY.

By: freespeech

freespeech — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:54:51 +0000

sales ? nothing else.

By: Evan Thomas

Evan Thomas — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:29:46 +0000

Such inconsistencies in government policies. One day ago the talk was about alchol abuse, the next day we building plants to produce more rum…..guess is rum till the guyanese die.

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:31:28 +0000

Another good piece of news on investments in Guyana, this time by a private company taking the initiative. Good stuff!! Govt should continue to create attractive investment climate…and keep the crime rate down.

By: gloria

gloria — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:30:48 +0000

what the honourable president (Mr Barratt Jagdeo) ,is doing is great. I have read about the touting of private car drivers, and the government is doing something about it now, and the drop outs of school children,well that should have been looked into years ago , not only now.
As for the bottling company ,that will soon be in operations, that is in Linden and Skeldon, i applaud the good work of the government, for there will be about 250 jobs opening. Mr President with all due respect i am guyanese too, and i have been thinking why all these opportunities are opened up to Region 6 and georgetown areas, why not the countryside like Rosignol where alot of housewife and school drop outs need a job, but because they have little education,they can’t find a proper job, please if there could be a factory of this magnitude in Rosignol i know it will make the people very happy . Please consider the poor people in these areas. Thank you.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:27:04 +0000

I must say it is great to hear jobs are being created in a time when lots of Guyanese are searching, most times aimlessly. My issue is, don’t we have enough rum being produced in this country? Don’t we have enough social ills that are off-shoots from alcohol? I think more thought should have been put into the rum part of the deal. Berbice women and children, brace yourselves, the rougher ride is about to start,after all a rum factory is coming closer to you.

By: Mackydog

Mackydog — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:43:09 +0000

Why name a rum made in GUYANA after a JAMAICAN artist? Ridiculous, that’s why we Guyanese and Guyanese enterprises would NEVER be known.

Would a Jamaican company name something made in Jamaica after Eddy Grant? …and he’s well known there.

RIDICULOUS.

And for Venezuela, go on, invest in Guyana’s economy and when yuh can’t get 2/3 of our land, the Essequibo, pull out so you can cripple our economy.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:00:03 +0000

Sign, sign, and jobs, jobs and keep production going. So good for my Native Land.
Mundial Maquinas C.A a very successful company….

By: ankoko

ankoko — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:01:52 +0000

At first glance -Things looking up!
Got an ominous feeling ’bout this one.
Guyana distilled and produced rum named after a Jamaican DJ/rapper? What IS this??