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New Chamber President wants timeline for tax reform
Newly elected President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Clinton Urling has said that a point has now been reached in the protracted discourses between the government and the private sector on the issue of tax reform where there is need for “a timeline” for the effective and efficient” settling of the issue.
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Community social responsibility and GT&T’s cable theft woes
Guyana is by no means the only country in the world where the utility entities and public facilities are targeted by thieves seeking to strip those installations of metal infrastructure in order to cash in on a lucrative global scrap metal industry.
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Fly Jamaica to offer Kingston-Georgetown passenger service
A report out of Kingston has indicated that a Jamaican airline, Fly Jamaica, has announced its intention to commence operations between Jamaica and Guyana.
East Berbice waiting for economic boom
Evidence of heightened economic activity as reflected in the number of high rise buildings being erected in the New Amsterdam area may be concealing more deep-seated economic problems in parts of Region Six where the too few jobs manifests itself in evidence of idleness particularly among young people.
Women in Business
New opportunities may lie on the horizon for Guyanese women in business following the establishment in March of a regional organization named Women Entrepreneurs (WEN), a US State Depart-ment-backed organization that is concerned with identifying resources available through international organizations with which to support the growth and development of women-run enterprises in the region.
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Frustrated GT&T officials reach out to Sophia residents as cable vandalism bites
Officials of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) were yesterday due to undertake a “walk through” in the Sophia community in an attempt to tackle what company sources say has been renewed acts of vandalism against its telecommunications infrastructure targeting the company’s insulated copper cable.
Raising hopes and aspirations
Early AppealAs Guyanese were coming to the endof the Lenten Season, they were presented with a new fiscal offering from the newly constituted Donald Ramotaradministration.
Business Briefs
Trading with Europe still tough despite EPATrading with Europe is likely to continue to prove difficult despite the presence of the CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and Barbadian businesses are coming to terms with the reality that .
The economic pressures that drive mini bus madness
Norman Nicholson is not what one might call a run-of-the-mill minibus operator.
NOTICE
Due to circumstances beyond our control we were unable to publish part II of the promised three-part series on Performance management Practices by the Trinidadian consultant Averil Williams.
Guyanese businesswomen to benefit from new US-backed regional business grouping
Guyanese businesswomen are poised to benefit from the newly formed Caribbean Women Entrepreneurs (WEN) established last March and arising out of a forum for Caribbean women entrepreneurs organized by the United States State Department’s Global Women’s Issues Initiative being led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Bee sector needs commercial bank backing – society President
Guyana’s apiculture industry may still be light years away from matching the honey production levels of the global giants but President of the newly formed Guyana Apiculture Society (GAS), Karl Persaud believes that there are significant economic gains to be realized from the sector if it can secure a heightened level of private sector interest and a more generous measure of public sector support.