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Against the backdrop of increasingly stringent food safety measures being implemented in North America and which threaten to place restrictions on food imports from the Caribbean, Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy announced last week that government will introduce a Food Safety Bill during the next sitting of Parliament.

By Joycelyn Williams A competitive economy must have competitive companies producing goods and services that can compete in the global marketplace in terms of features, quality and price.

This year, according to the public officials running GuyExpo, the event will play down the entertainment afforded mostly by the loud music and will focus more on the marketing and trading of goods, which is what we are continually told is much of the purpose of the event anyway.

Several local business houses, including some big traders, are stubbornly refusing to comply with national laws governing the right of consumers to secure refunds for goods purchased from their stores, a practice that continues to leave buyers saddled with items which or are defective and therefore useless.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association’s (GMSA) announcement that it intends to lobby the Guyana Revenue Authority for more rigorous checks of incoming cargo with a view to finding and confiscating counterfeit goods will probably not meet with a great deal of success, a Customs source told Stabroek Business on Wednesday.

Artistic Line was created out of the energy and determination of Jennifer Holder, a mother of three children and the owner of a modest multi-purpose enterprise.

Earlier this week representatives of the United States-registered airline Dynamic Airways were in Georgetown seeking to recruit staff to fill a range of positions ahead of the start of its service between Guyana and New York scheduled before the customarily busy July and August travel season.

(Trinidad Express) – Developing countries are headed for a year of disappointing growth, as first quarter weakness in 2014 has delayed an expected pick-up in economic activity, the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report has said.

By Matt Slaughter & Jaana Remes  RIO DE JANEIRO – Ready or not, Brazil is rolling out the welcome mat for sports fans from around the world.

Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy’s announcement last week about the introduction of draft Food Safety legislation in the National Assembly at its next sitting would have taken many people by surprise.

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GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 567’s trading results showed consideration of $19,833,260 from 504,526 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 566’s trading results which showed consideration of $1,744,761 from 47,771 shares traded in 13 transactions.

Differences of opinion have surfaced between President of the Tourism and Hospitality Association (THAG) Christopher ‘Kit’ Nascimento and Roraima Airways Chief Executive Officer Gerry Gouveia, a former head of THAG, over recent remarks made by Nascimento about the state of the sector and his perception of the government’s attitude to the industry.

With urban Guyana currently experiencing a surfeit of major construction, Safety and Health expert and Director of the private consultancy Optimum Safety Solutions Dale Beresford wants the Ministry of Labour to step up inspections at construction sites to ensure that there are adequate measures in place to identify safety hazards and that preventive action is taken.

At various times over the past several months this newspaper has reported on the Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) Development and Building Alternative Livelihood for Vulnerable Groups project which is being funded under the environmental partnership between Guyana and Norway and overseen jointly by the Inter-Ameri-can Development Bank and the Government of Guyana.

It’s hard to estimate the number of vendors on the pavements and streets of Georgetown.

Girendra Persaud divides much of his time between developing websites and other IT related products and services and lecturing in the Information Technology Depart-ment of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Guyana (UG).

Hoapei Yang is a 26-year-old China-born Guyanese who has just created skilledguyanese.com,

At a time when Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries are coming under increasing pressure to significantly lower an estimated US4 billion annual food import bill a Cdn$20 million initiative is set to forge new links between several regional farming communities and major buyers of fresh produce—like supermarkets and hotels—in the Caribbean that could present a major part of the solution to the food import problem.