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

  
  

  

  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 …

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  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 & …

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  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 …

• Business Page

  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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