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Access updates The Guyana Revenue Authority employs the internet plentiful in its administration, management and enforcement of the revenue activities of the country. 

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)

Long before 50-year-old Cyril Haynes opened his modest Apartment Complex in Garnett street in August this year he had begun to undertake research into the hospitality sector.

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Sustained inclement weather in the days immediately preceding Christmas did little to curb the enthusiasm for spending usually associated with this time of the year.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it is seeking a meeting with the Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) to discuss the recently published report on corruption.

Guyana can continue to rely on Canada’s support as a bilateral partner in the quest to create a local enabling environment for the strengthening of the mining, oil and gas sectors in Guyana, Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana David Devine has said On Monday, the Canadian envoy briefed the Stabroek Business on his country’s ongoing support for the development of the extractive industries in Guyana, emphasising that future support will focus on improving

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Motion Sir Isaac Newton helped us to gain a better understanding of the world in which we live when he explained what happens to an object that was in motion. 

Randolph and Kerrin Stanley can be described as an unusual couple if only because they have remigrated at a time when many people their age, 36 and 31 years old, are seeking to do the opposite.

Small and medium-sized enterprises in Guyana are to benefit from a four-year, Canadian International Development Agency-funded programme targeting similar business entities in six other Caricom countries for sustainable growth.

Some multi-million-dollar mining operations in various parts of the interior are likely to come under official scrutiny early next year as the authorities initiate an audit aimed at identifying and removing unregistered mining operations.

Labour activist Ian Andrews is seeking official recognition and endorsement for what he says is the first trade union for the private transport sector in the Commonwealth Ian Andrews concedes that the efforts of the United Mini Bus Workers Union (UMBWU) to unionise the owners, drivers and conductors of the country’s privately operated minibuses is as close to “an industrial relations miracle” as one can get.

Does the mid-November visit to Guyana by Trinidad and Tobago’s Food Production Minister Devant Maraj add impetus to the ponderous pace at which the regional food security plan has been moving?

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The strengthening and enforcement of penalties for late payment and non-payment of NIS contributions and the introduction of new legal measures to punish transgressors including the garnisheeing of the income and assets of non-compliant employers are among the matters on which the Eight Actuarial Review have commented.

Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) President Clinton Urling wants the country’s “national leaders and public officials” to be more transparent and accountable in the management of public and private sector organisations.

Roraima Airways says that it intends to forward to the authorities, the findings of a Commission of Enquiry into the discovery of a quantity of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri—in which one of its staff was fingered—“within a week” and that it will be seeking to engage the authorities on recommendations for reducing the vulnerability of the airport to drug traffickers.

A low-tax plan It was recently reported in the Stabroek News that the President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) expressed the view that modifying the personal and corporate tax rates would be a good thing for the Guyana economy.