Just over six months after assuming duties as Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection in the APNU-AFC coalition government, Simona Broomes has begun to make waves in the labour relations sector.
With encouragement from a friend, Sharon Fraites has fashioned her creative skills into an enterprise that provides for her and her three sons.
A Tourism & Hospitality Association of Guyana column “Ho! Ho! Ho!”
Years of absence from the family business appears not have dimmed the enthusiasm of Clement Corlette for enterprise and for searching for avenues through which growth and expansion can be realized.
Several months ago this newspaper was briefed by Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Norman McLean about the planned staging of a public/private business/economic forum which, as we understood it, was intended to chart a course for a longer-term relationship between the business sector and the new political administration.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday December 17, 2015
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 646’s trading results showed consideration of $1,474,100 from 22,705 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 645’s trading results, which showed consideration of $5,605,474 from 229,958 shares traded in 7 transactions.
Business Cartoon
Guyana’s halting efforts to create a viable and sustainable tourism sector over the years are more likely than not to continue to fall short of its goals unless government makes a decisive commitment to investing in the global marketing of the country.
The newly registered General Contractors Association of Guyana (GCAG) has pledged to work to create an environment in which “quality, honesty and fairness” become watchwords in the sector and where its members are “consistently compliant in the tender process.”
There was an encouraging sense of entrepreneurship amongst many of the vendors who placed their goods on display at last month’s first ever Small Business Exposition.
Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
Local business houses now have at their disposal the service of a tool that helps them measure the value they receive for their advertising dollar by determining just how much of what they disseminate actually reaches the market.
Fresh from participating in last month’s Business Exposition for small entrepreneurs at the Sophia Pavilion, Denyse Grant is preparing top hit the road again.
The newly established General Contractors Association of Guyana (GCAG) will be exploring means through which smaller contractors can have more ready access to state contracts for jobs that fall within their operating capacity, founder member of the organization, Neil Cort-Rogers has told Stabroek Business.
Last February, Onika Reynolds, a stay-at-home mother, took a leap of faith when she launched Nika’s Kustom Kreations.
Guyanese-American teen siblings Ima, Asha, and Caleb Christian copped first place at the just concluded 2015 Innovating Justice Challenge award conference in The Hague, Netherlands.
Stock market updates
(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service) *Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.
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