A senior official in the local Ministry of Agriculture has gone on the attack against non-tariff barriers instituted by some Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries that are working counter to efforts to realise regional food security, according to Monday’s edition of the Jamaica Gleaner.
A local company has been selected by the World Bank group InfoDev as a ”business enabler” to provide training and mentorship for Guyanese entrepreneurs and start-ups under a tailored package of instructions being offered by the World Bank’s Accelerate Caribbean Programme.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 629’s trading results showed consideration of $4,409,880 from 66,008 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 628’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,830,101 from 31,637 shares traded in 14 transactions.
The announcement by Finance Minister Winston Jordan in his budget presentation that government intends to activate a provision of the Small Business Act of 2004 that allows for medium and small enterprises to access up to 20 percent of government contracts will be music to the ears of those smaller goods and service providers who have been complaining for years about being locked out of access to contracts for services to the state even in circumstances where they say they are capable of providing those services.
Inevitably, the transformation that has all but completely altered the face of the old Georgetown has made its presence felt on Brickdam, one of the few streets where huge, shady
trees and colonial-style wooden buildings used to dominate the quiet stretch that extended for the majority of the length of the capital.
The APNU-AFC coalition administration on Monday used its maiden budget presentation in the National Assembly to signal its intention to place small business development on the front burner of the country’s economy.
President David Granger’s address in July to a rice forum at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre appeared designed to lift spirits in a sector that has had to absorb the shock of Venezuela’s earlier announcement that Guyana could no longer rely on that country’s rice market under the PetroCaribe Agreement.
One of the issues in Finance Minister Winston Jordan’s 2015 budget presentation that has raised a fair measure of public comment is the announcement that government is allocating $300 million to an urban restoration exercise in the capital.
It is probably about two weeks (or thereabouts) since Mr. Royston King, the new Town Clerk, publicly announced that he would be giving priority attention to the rehabilitation of the collapsed section of the Stabroek Market wharf – and while that exercise is going on – the relocation of at least some of the vendors who are now displaced.
By Valrie Grant, Managing Director GeoTechVision
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) established the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) in July 2011 (ECOSOC resolution 2011/24) as the official UN consultative mechanism on Global Geospatial Information Management (GGIM).
By Marilyn Collins
Marilyn Collins is a retired Director of the Government Food and Drug Analyst Derpartment
The Ministry of Public Health has placed emphasis on iron deficiency anaemia during this year’s observance of “Nutrition Awareness Week”.
The recently commissioned official enquiry into accidents in the mining regions in Guyana including mining pit cave-ins that result in loss of life is unlikely to serve any remedial purpose except the authorities are successful in enforcing rules and regulations that change key aspects of the operating culture in the mining sector, an experienced mining sector employee has told this paper.
General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has told the Stabroek Business that while labour is buoyed by the confirmation announced in Monday’s budget presentation that the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) will have its annual subvention which was removed under the previous political administration restored, it provides the College with a challenge to ensure that the subvention “converts into various forms of training for young people that can strengthen the pool of resources available to take the economy and the country forward.
Employees in both the public and private sector workplaces in Guyana continue to be victims of inhospitable working conditions and have their rights as workers transgressed on account of flagrant disregard for constitutional provisions and rules that have been created to protect them,” Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection Simona Broomes has told the Stabroek Business.
(Trinidad Express) The Atlantic coast of Tobago may be battling waves of sargassum seaweed, but the Caribbean side of the island is all rays of sunshine, clean sandy beaches and clear waters for visitors, claims Tobago’s Secretary of Tourism and Transportation Tracey Davidson-Celestine.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 628’s trading results showed consideration of $1,830,101 from 31,637 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 627’s trading results, which showed consideration of $6,012,888 from 82,274 shares traded in 8 transactions.