Business

Contractors responsible for the ongoing construction of the City Food Court at Camp and Robb streets, where a worksite accident on December 2 left four workers injured, could face sanctions for failing to formally report the incident to the Ministry of Labour as required under the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

With two weekends now left before Christmas downtown merchants and pavement vendors say the wave of consumer spending which they expect to precede the holidays is yet to materialise.

(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.

John Lewis Jr is blunt about his reason for ‘taking the plunge’ into children’s clothing.

While an air of uncertainty continues to surround the agreement reached between the governments of Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago that will allow Trinidadian investors to secure land for farming, a T&T-based entity appears to be forging ahead with a project aimed at providing processed citrus juices and pulp for major beverage manufacturers in that country.

An experienced former City Hall safety and health professional who is currently in private practice has told Stabroek Business that all of the reported elements in last Monday’s accident at the Robb and Camp streets City Food Court building site point to the need for an urgent investigation and a “swift revelation” of the findings.

This newspaper has commented previously on the urban building boom – particularly as it relates to the growth of commerce in the city – and its implications for exercising an enhanced level of vigilance as far as issues of safety and health are concerned.

With the food and hospitality industry being one of the fastest growing sectors in urban Guyana, local institutions concerned with formulating and ensuring food safety and waste disposal regulations have “significantly added responsibilities”, which they must be equipped to execute efficiently, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Clinton Urling told Stabroek Business in a comment earlier this week.

Some of the barriers to the competiveness of Guyana’s exports on regional markets are the result of constraints that are internal to the economy, Canadian Professor Thomas McKaig told a media briefing in Georgetown earlier this week.

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(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.

Last Tuesday saw the launch of yet another culinary option in Georgetown for persons who favour eating out, with the formal opening of the Silhouette Restaurant.

The Guyanese business community is not alone in its frustration and jitteriness over the proliferation of violent crime directed at lucrative targets.

Private sector investment of more than $1.5 billion in key machinery and equipment for the rice industry in 2013 contributed significantly to an overall yield of more than 500,000 tonnes this year, according to Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) General Manager Jagnarine Singh.

Shaan Deen has been operating a business enterprise at Lethem for the better part of five years, comprising a general store and a hardware store on Barrack Retreat.

A view from the Forest Products Development and Marketing Council Part of the role of the Forest Products Development and Marketing Council (FPDMC) – in collaboration with the Guyana Forestry Commission and the Forest Products Association – is to promote the utilization of the lesser used species of woods (LUS’) found in Guyana’s forests. 

(Reuters) – Venezuela’s central bank president denied on Thursday that Caracas is carrying out any transactions with Wall Street banks, a day after a senior government source said it was evaluating a swap agreement involving its gold reserves.

The sight of the downtown street vendors, their Christmas stocks piled high, marooned atop boxes and other precarious perches, waiting for the water dumped by the early morning deluge to recede, was more than ample testimony to the folly of a city that is simply unable to get its act together as far as managing our garbage disposal and draining the city are concerned.

Successive Auditor General’s reports allude to serious deficiencies in the management of finances and stocks of materials associated with the execution of the duties of the Guyana Elections Commission and the inefficient maintenance of records relating to the disbursement of stocks.