What had appeared several months ago to be encouraging signs of movement towards technical assistance from Trinidad and Tobago in developing an oil and gas sector in Guyana, now appears to be languishing in uncertainty.
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.
If, these days, the contemporary ambitions of young Guyanese invariably extend beyond the pursuit of agriculture, the pressure of the global food shortage and the potential for growing successful businesses held out in the pursuit of food cultivation remain a decidedly attractive prospect.
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.
Brooke Glasford is a thoughtful, engaging 25-year-old who is announcing her presence in the local fashion industry following a six-year sojourn in Canada.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
(This is the seventh of an eight-part series on changes to labour employment in the future, causes of this upheaval, and some possible measures to mitigate their disruptive effects.
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.
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.
If the outcomes of the recent meeting of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) are anything to go by, the region’s tourist industry may stand to benefit from the ongoing immigration fallout between Mexico and the new United States administration.
In an era when governments in the Caribbean are actively wooing foreign private investment without so much as an opposing murmur from the governed, opposition to takeover of state entities by either local or foreign private investors has the support of the most powerful trade union in Trinidad and Tobago.