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    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Business Page

    On the line: Banks DIH Annual Report
    Banks DIH, the giant food and beverage company will be holding its 53rd annual general meeting on Saturday, January 17, 2009, close to four months following the end …

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    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, December 28, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Our world in 2009
    Introduction
    Certainly the most authoritative publication which predicts the grand occasions and developments of the following year is the widely circulated Economist, published in the UK. Even by its own admission many of …

  • Business Page

    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, December 21, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Introduction
    Today’s Business Page looks back not over the past year but to some fifteen years ago when on January 8, 1994, Ram & McRae (then Christopher L. Ram & Company) jointly with Ernst & …

  • Business Page

    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, December 14, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Who’s left now?
    Conclusion
    The death of socialism
    Business Page last week suggested that amidst the cataclysmic dislocation to have rocked the capitalist world first manifested in the housing market in the United States, the response …

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    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, December 7, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Who’s left now?
    The crisis facing the world economy is leading to a fundamental rethink of the role of ideology and the place of the ‘market’ in economic development. Some twenty years ago there was …

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    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, November 30, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Response to a crisis
    Introduction
    Today’s column looks at some of the ironies and contradictions in the response to what started as a domestic crisis in the mortgage sector in the US and the prospects for the …

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    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, November 23, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Adjustment time in Trinidad and Tobago
    Introduction
    It has been a challenging week for Trinidad and Tobago where crime seems to dominate the headlines in the dailies. In fact, crime had to share space with news on …

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    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, November 9, 2008 | 0 Comments


    David – a Goliath of a man
    David de Caires was very clear on what Business Page was about – the dissemination of financial and economic information and discussion of ideas and issues aimed at …

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    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, October 26, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Curbing corruption: The Corruption Perception Index

    Conclusion
    Introduction
    Today we conclude this three-part article arising out of the publication of the 2008 Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International which ranked Guyana at a lowly 126 out …

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    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Curbing Corruption – The Corruption Perception Index
    Introduction
    Not unexpectedly, the Government has taken issue with the ranking accorded Guyana in the Transparency International (TI) Index for 2008 announced late last month. Of a total of …

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    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Died on a Monday, exhumed on a Wednesday and born on a Friday:  The rescue of a rescue package
    It takes going back to the childhood nursery rhyme to capture the events of the past …

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    By Christopher Ram | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments


    A look at the Trinidad and Tobago Budget 2008-09
    It was like a baptism of heat for new Minister of Finance Karen Nunez-Tesheira of the twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago as she presented the …

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