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Small Flame As Guyanese gradually settle into the New Year and the trading season for 2013 gets on the way, it is a good time to review the performance of the Guyana Stock Exchange (GSE) during 2012.
Small Flame As Guyanese gradually settle into the New Year and the trading season for 2013 gets on the way, it is a good time to review the performance of the Guyana Stock Exchange (GSE) during 2012.
Legitimate importers of school texts are almost certain to take “a cautious line” as far as the number of texts imported for the forthcoming school year is concerned since there is no certainty that last September’s court ruling prohibiting the publication and sale of ‘pirated’ school books in Guyana will guarantee the cessation of the practice, Proprietor of Austin’s Bookstore Lloyd Austin has told Stabroek Business.
Demerara Tobacco Company (Demtoco) has been named in the 2012 Caribbean Community Stock Market Review as the company whose shares posted the largest gain – 117.32% — for the year among the six stock exchanges in the region.
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Citing what it says have been “positive results and evident business growth and success among participants, Republic Bank Guyana Ltd has announced that it will further extend its support for EMPRETEC’s Venture Out For Women 2013 programme, by facilitating a total of $1 million in collateral-free loan prizes to the three participants in this year’s programme with the best business proposals.
Not for the first time, Guyana’s apiculture sector is making a case for a more generous measure of official attention.
The ban on mercury exports from the United States from January 1 this year is unlikely to have an impact on the country’s gold mining industry “for some time yet”.
Unless government and the private sector work together to ensure that the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, ceases to be regarded as an exit port through which illegal drugs can easily be smuggled, the private sector could be denied important international markets, Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways Inc Captain Gerry Gouveia told Stabroek Business earlier this week.
This newspaper has, over the years, been blitzed with stories of businessmen who, for one reason or another, have been denied licences to possess firearms.
The head of a local security company has criticised what he says are practices in the sector which he believes are not only unfair and take advantage of consumers’ unfamiliarity with hi-tech security equipment but also compromise the security of the people and property this equipment is intended to protect.
(Jamaica Observer) Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart on Wednesday urged Jamaicans to hold each other’s hands and face the challenges of 2013 in an exemplary spirit of unity and teamwork.
(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Unit Trust Corporation (UTC) has appointed former Finance Minister Wendell Mottley as its new Chairman.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 492’s trading results showed consideration of $1,077,240 from 41,742 shares traded in 4 transactions as compared to session 491 which showed
Forty-five miles from Georgetown at Burma, Mahaicony, the 610-acre Rice Research Station does its work without the attention customarily attracted by other institutions, which, arguably, are of decidedly less importance to the economy.
“We remain of the opinion that liberalisation of Guyana’s telecommunications sector is long overdue.
For the fourth consecutive year, Guyana’s gold mining industry has realised record-breaking production levels with overall gold yield for 2012 reaching 400,000 ounces; the highest in the history of the industry.
After the visit here in November by Trinidad and Tobago Food Production Minister Devant Maraj an announcement had been made to the effect that the governments of the two Caricom countries would sign a Memorandum of Understanding within a matter of days of the visit that would address the details of a collaborative food production initiative involving the two countries.
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