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By Christopher Ram | Sunday, March 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
Stimulus package – to do or not to do?
I had promised to write this week about the role in and implications of the Clico fiasco …
By Christopher Ram | Sunday, March 8, 2009 | 3 Comments
Clico and the related crisis: Confusion continues
Introduction
It has been an incredibly hot week in Guyana. In fact so hot that the President who was directly …
By Christopher Ram | Sunday, March 1, 2009 | 10 Comments
If a loss of public moneys should occur and, at the time of that loss, a Minister or official has caused or contributed to that …
By Christopher Ram | Sunday, February 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Putting some sense in the 2009 Budget
Introduction
The National Assembly has the most unenviable task of making sense of the 2009 Budget presented last Monday in …
By Christopher Ram | Sunday, February 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
Addressing the Clico issue
Introduction
Rumours that the region’s largest conglomerate CL Financial Limited (CL) was experiencing difficulties were confirmed at a dramatic press conference in Trinidad …
By Christopher Ram | Sunday, February 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
Integrity Commission on shaky ground
Conclusion
Re-cap
Last week we ended the column with the offices listed in Schedule I to the act, the holders of which …
By Christopher Ram | Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
Staggering increase in external debt
Bad news
The country’s stock of external public and publicly guaranteed debt rose by 20.3 per cent to US$804 million …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Christopher Ram | Sunday, September 21, 2008 | 1 Comment
Crisis in the USA: Is America too big to fail?
September has been a disastrous month for the US whose leading presidential candidates like to …
