By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
Demonstration driven by fear of official moves to reduce small-scale mining activity
Bartica this week handed the government of President Bharrat Jagdeo the first major non-political …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
Cites stable exchange rate, fiscal soundness
Despite “poor sugar and rice harvests” which resulted in a significant contraction in the performance of Guyana’s agricultural sector, the …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
(Extracted from Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report – 2009)
The private sector plays a pivotal and expanding role in improving the well-being of societies, communities and …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
Chief Executive Officers of private sector entities in Guyana are usually not keen to speak publicly about what they perceive to be problems that impact …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
By Rawle Lucas
Rawle Lucas is a Guyanese-born Certified Public Accountant and Assistant Vice-President of the Lending Services Division.
Mr Lucas has agreed to serve as a …
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By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Private Sector Commis-sion (PSC) is currently engaging Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee in a bid to forestall moves to outlaw the commercial activities of …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
Will the 2009 nightmare push regional tourist destinations towards diversification?
Even as the Caribbean’s tourism industry seeks to point to what it believes are early signs …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
-World Bank Global Economic Prospects report
Even as some Caribbean governments and business sectors continue to make optimistic noises arising out of indications of a turnaround …
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Boutique proprietor John Lewis tells Stabroek Business that the multi-million-dollar fashion industry is far more important to shaping the national psyche than we might imagine.
At …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 341’s trading results showed consideration of $2,958,885 from 128,074 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek News Business as a public service)
The New Guyana marketing Corporation has agreed to provide …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
Keith Burrowes, Chairman of the 2009 Commission of Enquiry into the operations of the Mayor and City Council has told Stabroek Business that he is …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 29, 2010 | 0 Comments
Although the days are long gone when considerations of gender served to restrict access by women to a number of professions, you would think it …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 29, 2010 | 0 Comments
International donor agencies exist to provide developing countries with various forms of mostly project-based human and technical support aimed at taking or supporting initiatives which, …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 29, 2010 | 0 Comments
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
By Jacquelyn Hamer
High levels of unemployment in the formal economy and the necessity among low-income earners to pursue means through which to subsidize their incomes …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 29, 2010 | 0 Comments
Both Scotiabank Guyana and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) have confirmed that the local telephone service provider is moving to remedy the problems …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 29, 2010 | 0 Comments
May forum on sustainable tourism holds particular significance for Guyana
Buoyed by the recent pronouncement by the World Tourism Organization (WTO) that international tourism could be …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 29, 2010 | 0 Comments
As the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) continues its increasingly relentless crackdown on tax evasion through the holding of bank accounts in foreign …