What Guyana Trades Union Congress General Secretary Lincoln Lewis has described as “probably the most serious engagement between government and the labour movement under the APNU+AFC administration”, on Wednesday may well have paved the way for “more meaningful and constructive discussions on issues pertaining to some key issues including the extractive sector, the environment and welfare, the veteran trade unionist told Stabroek Business.
By Karen Abrams, MBA
Co-Founder, STEMGuyana
Public and private organizations in Guyana are learning that the best cure for exposure on social media is transparency and professionalism.
For Gail-Ann Gouveia it’s a long journey from gathering crabwood seeds on the forest floor at Three Brothers Village in the Waini River to having her Waini Secrets Crabwood Oil Soaps appear on shelves in shops in downtown Port-of-Spain.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 685’s trading results showed consideration of $1,002,679 from 25,321 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 684’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,422,364 from 48,203 shares traded in 11 transactions.
(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 08, 2016
Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
The Bourda vendors who ply their trade on Robb Street between Alexander Street and Orange Walk may have been given a directive to resume trading yesterday after being subjected to two successive days of loss of earnings but that does nothing to conceal the continually deteriorating relationship between City Hall and the urban vending community, on the one hand, and on the other the patently quixotic management style of the new municipal regime in matters pertaining to addressing the issue of vending in the capital and more.
Already existing tendencies towards an anti-worker posture in some sections of the extractive sector ought to send clear signals to government regarding its obligation to make new arrivals in the oil and gas and gold-mining sectors, particularly, aware of the laws of Guyana that protect workers from abuse and accord them the right to trade union representation.
With the initial twenty five-year contract between the Government of Guyana and Barama Company Limited due to expire on October 16, the absence of any clarity, up to this time, on the renewal or otherwise of the contract could send more than seven hundred Guyanese employed with the company on the breadline in a matter of weeks, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has told the Stabroek Business.
It would not have come as a surprise to those with a reasonable knowledge of the characteristics and behaviour of the oil industry that the commencement of offshore oil production will not coincide with the creation of a surfeit of jobs for Guyanese.
At a recent media briefing on the upcoming coconut festival, questions were asked on the current value of the coconut industry in Guyana and why is there no tangible evidence of revitalization in light of its importance.
The international business community has expressed a degree of “elevated confidence in Barbados” as a destination for foreign direct investment (FDI), Barbados Finance Minister Chris Sinckler has said.
While the local manufacturing sector continues to encounter a number of challenges in its quest to secure external markets, including regional ones for goods produced in Guyana, some companies continue to make incremental breakthroughs.
Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday September 1, 2016
Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
With violent crime in Trinidad and Tobago fast inclining towards another of its periodic steep spirals, the Trinidad Express reported that the private sector in Port of Spain is advocating urgent external intervention to try to alleviate the situation.
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The whole idea behind the unionization of vendors says Eon Andrews, the President of the Guyana Market Vendors Union (GMVU) is to seek to redress the “balance of respect” between the municipality and the people who ply their trade in and around the municipal markets.
