Business

The sale of re-packaged and unlabelled food items

It matters not one iota how many media releases laced with warnings of dire consequences for transgressions are issued by the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GA/FDD) regarding the unlawful packaging and repackaging of items of food for sale, for as long as we continue to not get the little things right, we will be compelled to deal with the consequences of our indifference.

Major infusion of skills needed to implement Ministry of Business Strategic Plan

Go-Invest “does not currently have the capabilities to design policies or strategies to provide more value-added services to exporters” The full and effective implementation of the five-year Strategic Plan unveiled by the Ministry of Business a week ago will depend on a major initiative designed to undertake a major skills recruitment drive in order to strengthen some of the critical departments within the ministry,

Crime and the public/private sector relationship

It should be said at the outset that the private sector’s recent publicly expressed concern that crime, including violent crime, once again appears to be lurching out of control and its demand that there be a concerted official response to push back the current crime wave is entirely appropriate.

John N Seeram

The GuySuco conundrum

By John N Seeram   I was prompted to pen this brief article following information released by the Ministry of Finance on a $2 billion subsidy for GuySuCo published in Kaieteur News of 28 October 2016.

An Action approach to team building

By Vishnu Doerga   Vishnu Doerga is the President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry   Putting together the dream team for your business can be as easy as taking an ‘action’ approach rather than the ‘information’ approach.

Prices Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)                              The New Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday November 3, 2016                    Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman

No requiem for bauxite yet

That the foreboding clouds of declining global demand and receding world market prices are not sufficient to persuade the Government of Guyana to give up on the future of bauxite as a major money-earner for the country’s economy was the underlying theme of last Wednesday’s address at a centennial symposium for the bauxite industry.

The BCGI debacle

It is hard to think of a labour relations issue that has generated more controversy and public comment in recent years than the staunch anti-union posture of the management of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) and the toxic working environment which the employees of the company have had to endure.

Food and Drugs, Customs and the integrity of consumer imports

All of the evidence bared during last Tuesday’s interface between functionaries of the Govern-ment Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GA/FDD) and the Guyana Revenue Authority – Customs and Trade Administration ostensibly to attempt to refine the relationship between the two state agencies in matters pertaining to the importation of safe foods, drugs, cosmetics and medical devices into Guyana suggested that the engagement was long overdue and ought to have happened much sooner.

Entrepreneurs supporting entrepreneurs

Valrie Grant is an Entrepreneur, Managing Director of GeoTechVision and Chairperson of the Small Business Council By now, we have established that entrepreneurship drives economic change and innovation and that entrepreneurs are crucial to building prosperous societies that deliver opportunity to all citizens.

Leadership… Who’s driving your business?

This is the first in a series of business articles agreed to between the Stabroek Business and the President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry and local franchise holder for the internationally renowned business coaching entity, ActionCOACH, Vishnu Doerga   When business performance needs to be improved, it may well be wise to start the improvement process by first exploring the source of the leadership in that business.

Ministry of Business unveils five-year strategic plan

The ability of some of the country’s key business and investment-related institutions to effectively deliver services to required levels has been questioned in a series of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analyses published in the Ministry of Business’ Strategic Plan for the year 2016 -2020 released to this newspaper yesterday.

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