Business

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 894’s trading results showed consideration of $10,785,489 from 109,563 shares traded in 28 transactions as compared to session 893’s trading results which showed consideration of $58,269,672 from 662,937 shares traded in 26 transactions.

GMSA 2020 Awardees with President Mohammed Irfan Ali, Association President Shyan Noka, and other guests
GMSA 2020 Awardees with President Mohammed Irfan Ali, Association President Shyan Noka, and other guests

Nokta’s GMSA Awards speech signals move to leverage manufacturing, small business policy

With an eye to consolidating the role of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) ahead of the anticipated inflow of overseas investments expected to accompany the extraction of Guyana’s  oil and the economic opportunities expected to derive therefrom, its President Shyam Nokta, on December 2nd used the platform afforded him by its Annual Awards Presentation Ceremony, to outline its focus in pursuit of an enhanced strategic role in influencing the direction of the manufacturing sector as well as key areas of the small business sector.

La Shawn Lonetta Lucas

A conversation with the Queen of the King Fish realm

With the officially imposed strictures and attendant protocols associated with efforts to limit the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to take its toll on the fortunes of the business community, La Shawn Lonetta Lucas, the Proprietrix of the popular William street Campbelville King Fish Bar is counting her blessings.

Christmas and our fire safety regime

Every year, we get these routinised seasonal pronouncements from the Fire Chief that target both private homes and the commercial sector, cautioning  against the customary Christmas time indulgences like the additional consumption of power against the backdrop of what has been, for years a decidedly unreliable electricity supply regime,(and a failure over the terms of office of several  political administrations) to fix the faults that obtain at a perpetually-in-crisis Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL).

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 893’s trading results showed consideration of $58,269,672 from 662,937 shares traded in 26 transactions as compared to session 892’s trading results which showed consideration of $10,422,708 from 119,435 shares traded in 29 transactions.

Guyana’s Foreign Ministry officials in T&T last year for trade talks

Trade policies top regional manufacturers’ agenda

Business communities across CARICOM are likely to be waiting with bated breath to determine whether last month’s establishment of a new CARICOM Manufacturers Association (CMA) will serve as an eventual precursor to the building of sturdier bridges among member countries of the regional movement in the areas of manufacturing and trade.

Small farmers have sought to take advantage of the local UNCAPPED event

Small Business Webinar didn’t get down to the ‘nitty gritty’

The feedback that has been received arising out of the December 2 webinar hosted by the Small Business Bureau suggests that despite the persistent media attention being focussed on the circumstances of small businesses, government continues to ‘miss the bus’ insofar as their growth requirements are concerned.

The Bloom Broker

Christian Dior said, “After women flowers are the most lovely thing God has given women”, and this really rings true.

GMC Public Relations Officer Shevon Nedd and Guyana Shop manager Kevin Macklingham inside the shop

Reflections on the Guyana Shop

These days, the shelves filling the space at the corner of Robb & Camp streets that houses the Guyana Shop, administered by the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC), have taken on a less appealing image than had been the case up to a few months ago.

Not an Armada: Iranian vessels transporting gasoline to Venezuela

Venezuela gets Chinese ‘breathing space’

They are being referred to as ‘zombie tankers’, Chinese-recruited vessels that reportedly conduct surreptitious transactions with Beijing that ‘cock a snook’ at the sanctions imposed by America’s on-the-way-out President Donald Trump to ship oil to China and provide a welcome measure of financial relief for a beleaguered Venezuelan economy.

Caribbean Development Bank President Dr. Warren Smith: Focus on official corruption in challenging times.

CDB/World Bank forum tags corruption in the time of COVID-19

Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) President Dr Warren Smith on Monday used the forum afforded him on the opening day of the inaugural two-day Caribbean Conference on Corruption, Compliance and Cybercrime to target “those who seek to circumvent systems and processes,” asserting that it was critical that institutions like the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) employ diverse strategies to stay ahead of those who seek to “circumvent systems and processes”.

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