Business

Guyana’s ‘development’ will require ‘all hands on deck’

By Karen Abrams, MBA “Without women’s empowerment and gender equality, societies will not be able to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and their full development potential,” Claudinah Ramosepele, South Africa’s delegate to the Sixty-sixth UN General Assembly Third Committee, 2011.

 Lincoln Lewis

GB&GWU in talks with RUSAL Moscow over BCGI industrial relations climate

Two months after a visit here by officials of the Russian company RUSAL in an effort to detoxify the relationship between the majority RUSAL-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) and the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) which has bargaining rights for some of the workers there, the protracted soured industrial relations climate persists.

Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday February 16, 2017Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

The Small Business Bureau

It is now just over three years since then president Donald Ramotar launched the Small Enterprise Development and Building Alternative Livelihoods for Vulnerable Groups (MSED) project in October 2013, which is intended to support the goals of the Government of Guyana in the areas of poverty alleviation.

David Granger

Miners threatened action if no meeting with Granger could be real – industry source

As the two-week ultimatum given by the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) for a meeting with President David Granger to discuss taxes and other issues approaches an end, a well-placed mining administration official has told Stabroek Business that there is real concern over the association’s threatened cessation in gold production in the event that the effort to meet with the President does not bear fruit.

Miners at School: Miners at work during a theoretical session with GGMC Mining School Administrator John Applewhite-Hercules

Mining School trained 492 in 2016

With state policy placing increasing emphasis on mining site safety and an environmentally responsible regime of mining practices in the country’s gold mining sector the work of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission’s (GGMC) Mining School is assuming an increasingly central position in ensuring the integrity of the sector, its Administrator John Applewhite-Hercules has told the Stabroek Business.

Karen Abrams

Foreign direct investment

By Karen Abrams, MBA Co-Founder, STEMGuyana   In a past life, I was responsible for network operations for the third largest internet service provider (ISP) in the United States. At

Junette Stuart

Women entrepreneurs network to launch flea market

New President of the Guyana Chapter of the Women Entrepreneurs Network of the Caribbean (WENC) Junette Stuart has told Stabroek Business that she will be seeking to broaden the base of the organization to take account of aspiring women in business who operate outside of Georgetown and its environs.

Valrie Grant

Trends for SMEs in 2017

By Valrie Grant Entrepreneur Managing Director, GeoTechVision Chairperson, Small Business Council   Many regional business owners are giving serious consideration to the trends for medium and small enterprises in 2017 and beyond.

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