Guyanese-born sculptor William C Seepaul has designed a monument on commission for Synchrony Financial, formerly GE Capital Bank for the company’s corporate campus in Stamford, Connecticut.
By Karen Abrams, MBA IT & Startup Business Consultant The respected publication, Harvard Business Review has declared that “Being forward-looking, envisioning exciting possibilities and enlisting others in a shared view of the future, are the attributes that most distinguishes leaders from non-leaders.”
Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday August 18, 2016 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
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(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)
Last week’s announcement that vendors in the city’s municipal markets are to become unionized is an indication that working people in Guyana are beginning to bestir themselves against tendencies by institutions in authority to marginalize them and deny them their rights, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has said.
The head of a local manufacturing company has tagged a predisposition for substandard and manufactured products as one of the primary reasons for the low demand for locally produced goods.
The name Beni Sankar still remains inextricably linked to the country’s rice industry.
The appearance in today’s issue of the Stabroek Business of an article written by Mr Louis Holder, a local business owner, reflecting on what he perceives to be some of the impediments to the growth of the country’s manufacturing sector, seeks to break new ground in the relationship between this newspaper and the business sector.
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By Louis Holder Louis Holder is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Amy’s Pomeroon Foods Inc.
Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday August 11, 2016Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
A face-to-face exchange between President David Granger and Guyana Metal Recyclers Association (GMRA) Secretary Michael Benjamin during a demonstration by the Association outside the Ministry of the Presidency on Tuesday may pave the way for fast-tracking the reopening of the metal export trade, closed by the government since July last year.
Forever bemoaning the scourge of copyright infringement and the limited legitimate marketing outlets for their work, Caribbean musicians are expected to pay keen interest in a project being undertaken by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) aimed at determining the feasibility of the creation of a private sector-driven Caribbean music platform to market online music in an effort to increase earnings to the sector.
Greater account is to be taken of the need for the protection of people and the environment in World Bank-funded projects in the Caribbean under a new initiative funded by the Bank and announced last week.
Guyana-born, Atlanta-based Samantha Maycock is currently on a brief visit to Guyana, keeping a promise she made to her sister to support her in the staging of this year’s Miss Summer Blaze Beauty Pageant.
By Karen Abrams, MBA IT Consultant As Guyana’s sugar, bauxite and rice industries continue to struggle under the weight of competition and global pricing pressures, our local economy and therefore citizens will continue to feel the direct hit as less revenue is available to pay for improved government services and development projects.
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(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.
Port Kaituma is no bed of roses, though, from, a distance, the stories about a profusion of gold-mining there may create the impression that the community is in a good place, so to speak and that the residents are thriving.
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