Business

A collaborative farming-based poverty reduction project financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Japanese Government through the Japanese Trust Fund was formally launched here on Wednesday, eight months after being implemented in poor coastal farming communities in urban and coastal regions of the country.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) wants the international donor community to provide material and technical support for creation of a small business help desk within the Chamber to help provide various critical services to the small business community.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 554’s trading results showed consideration of $10,235,630 from 477,732 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 553’s trading results which showed consideration of $4,753,900 from 43,681 shares traded in 6 transactions.

It may not have been a ground-breaking event in the context of providing training for micro and small business owners, but this week’s three-day training session for business owners and potential business owners marks the partial fulfillment of a commitment made by the Small Business Bureau to those entities seeking to sign up to benefit from what the Bureau has to offer.

Evidence of collusion between some Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) contractors and consumers to evade disconnection for non-payment of electricity bills and to secure electricity services illegally had led to termination of employment agreements with a number of contractors, a well-placed GPL source told Stabroek Business on Tuesday.

Evidence of the emergence of an increasing number of micro and small business initiatives in recent years has raised questions about the longer-term future of the small business sector as a whole.

Guyana’s manufacturing sector remains restricted to “primary processing of agricultural, mineral and forest products” on account of meagre local demand, high energy and transportation costs and inadequate, unaffordable and non-incentivised financing, Guyana Manufac-   turing & Services Association (GMSA) President Clinton Williams told the Association’s Annual Dinner & Awards Ceremony last evening.

Deborah Dey believes that the printed invitation makes its own statement.

The Guyana Manufac-turing & Services Associa-tion (GMSA) wants to see “closer collaboration and stronger partnerships” among entities which the association’s President Clinton Williams calls the “research and development institutes” to provide scientific data that would aid the performance of the productive sector.

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.

It appears that many ordinary Jamaicans have been able to mount a successful lobby for more political attention to be paid to the increasingly high-profile infusion of the Chinese economic influence in their country.

Kwasi ‘Ace’ Edmondson has not quite forgotten the moment of victory, but he cannot afford to live on it.

More than three years after United States President Barack Obama signed that country’s Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 into law, Guyana is still well adrift of being positioned to meet tough new standards in the absence of which locally produced foods will be denied access to US markets.

Security-related anomalies at port facilities in Guyana could, conceivably, negatively affect the country’s international maritime standing and raise questions about its compliance with International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) protocols and practices, a local shipping industry source has told Stabroek Business.

At this very moment we are living in one of those now familiar cycles of violence that targets the business community; violence that is sudden and frightening and which leaves even those of us who are not its actual victims chastened.

(Barbados Nation) – Sandals Barbados has spent more than $4 million buying local supplies in its 16 weeks of operating here.

Two local companies operating in tandem out of modest premises in Waterloo Street have set themselves the twin tasks of significantly broadening the variety of fruits and vegetables cultivated locally and expanding markets in the Caribbean and further afield.