NIS Board rejects United Associates Security Service proposal for settling outstanding $40m debt for employee contributions
The Board of Directors of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has rejected a proposal by the defaulting security company, United Associates Security & Domestic Services (UAS&DS) for the liquidation of a debt of more than $40m due for payment of arrears of employee NIS contributions. At the same time the NIS has disclosed that it [...]
E-Governance
Last time we saw that the term e-governance is used to refer to the application of information technology in enhancing citizen participation in government and that this focus on the citizen’s role in the process of government distinguishes e-governance from e-government which is concerned primarily with automating the delivery of governments services. A concept of [...]
Operations Integration
I have written many columns in the past on the need for technology infusion in our private and public sector. The fear of technology infusion becomes an operational issue on how it is integrated with current processes or whether some form of re-engineering is done. Operations Integration is the application of proven management methods to [...]
Business Cartoon
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Editorial
Few issues have exposed the limitations of the Georgetown City Council’s capacity to effectively administer the affairs of our capital more than its handling of the issue of street vendors. And the current brouhaha over the vendors in the Stabroek Market area illustrates the depths of absurdity to which the municipality has sunk in the [...]
NIS seeking to have delinquent ministers, parliamentarians, advisers comply with scheme’s regulations
Stabroek Business has been reliably informed that the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is seeking to have delinquent ministers of government, other members of Parliament and advisers to comply with regulations that require them to pay national insurance contributions for themselves and their employees. Stabroek Business has learnt that while ministers are in receipt of subventions [...]
Stock market updates
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Development Finance Ltd hoping to fund 3,000 entrepreneurs this year
Development Finance Lim-ited South America (DFLSA) says it hopes to create 3000 micro and small enterprises in two years and finance more Guyanese businesses. In a press release, the company said it recently reappointed Wilfredo ‘Willie’ Garcia as its Microfin Country Manager and appointed Gillian Griffith operations manager to help it to achieve these goals. [...]
Caricom trade support loans available to local private sectors
Local private sector businesses are yet to take advantage of funding available under the Caricom Trade Support (CTS) Programme established by the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Trinidad and Tobago to provide support for regional businesses seeking to enhance their competitiveness in the wake of the January 1, 2006 introduction of the Caricom Single [...]
Master Okazaki to conduct grading exams today
The Guyana Japan Karate Association (GJKA) for the 35th year will be graced with the presence of 9th Dan Black Belt Master Teruyuki Okazaki who will conduct the grading exam of the 4th-1st Kyu at the YMCA today from 5pm. Chief Instructor of the International Shotokan Karate Federation (ISKF) Okazaki told Stabroek Sport that over [...]
Stock market updates
Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared. These include 2002 for PHI; 2004 Final results for CCI; 2005 Final results for GTI; 2006 Interim results for TCL, DDL, GSI, JPS and SPL; 2006 Final results for DIH, [...]
The fire service does its best with limited resources
Dear Editor, I have been reviewing the coverage of the Stabroek News reporters of the recent fires in Guyana and I believe that the way the stories are reported the brave men and women of the Guyana Fire Service are treated unfairly. As the result of these reviews I have come to the conclusion that [...]
We endorse the appointment of Shri Gossai
Dear Editor, I write as President of the Guyana Islamic Forum for Education, Peace and Religious Solidarity. The Guyana Islamic Forum, as far we know is the only Non-Sectarian Islamic organization in the world, with the only Non-Sectarian mosque, maybe in the world; all others claim allegiance to some sect, which has pitted Muslims against [...]
Brother Kwayana has struggled for his principles since I was a boy
Dear Editor, When the annals of Guyana’s political history are written, if the account of what transpired is accurately and objectively recorded, many reading it will pause at the name Eusi Kwayana and observe, “it is remarkable that throughout a period when individual and group egos seem to dictate the course of actions of most [...]
A woman of courage
Dear Editor, Congratulations to Mrs. Doreen de Caires on receiving the US Secretary of State’s Award for International Women of Courage. Mrs. de Caires is deserving of this award. I know Mrs. de Caires personally and she has always been a woman of determination and strength. I think that she is greatly deserving of this [...]