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Long believed to be lacking in the clout to effectively assert itself in the wake of a government ban on the scrap metal trade that has been in force for more than a year, the Guyana Metal Recyclers Association (GMRA) on Thursday unleashed a withering broadside on the administration, dismissing the closure of the trade as illegal and demanding its immediate reopening.

In the wake of the public controversy that has shrouded the planned introduction of parking meters in the capital in recent months, Managing Director of Smart City Solutions Ifa Kamau Cush told Stabroek Business that yesterday’s launch of public consultations on the issue at the National Library represented a determined effort on his part to ensure that Guyanese secure “the correct understanding” of the nature and potential benefits of the project.

By Raymond F Trotz: Chairman, National Stakeholders Platform, Guyana Background and Introduction In recent months there has been much focus on developing the coconut industry in Guyana.

The state of the country’s economy and exactly where it has been heading over the past year or so is one of the current talking points among Guyanese.

You could be forgiven for thinking that Rudolph Wellington is a native of Kamarang.

General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has criticized what he says was the recent focus by Natural Resources & Environment Minister Raphael Trotman on production figures in the bauxite industry without “mentioning a word about working conditions and the industrial relations problems” in the industry.

Moray House Trust will host ‘A Life in Agriculture: Beni Sankar in conversation with Arnon Adams’ on Thursday, August 11, at 5.30 pm at Moray House, Camp and Quamina streets.

Company Secretary of the Continental Group of Companies Mohamed S Ali has told Stabroek Business that the company is persuaded that the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GAFDD) is doing the best with the resources at its disposal in the wake of the challenge which it faces in curbing the proliferation of fake products into Guyana.

By Ryan Peterson It a truism that tourism is experiencing a tectonic transformation.

(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.

General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has criticized the government for the “demonstrable lack of willingness on its part to bring the partially state-owned… Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) under control” in response to its “continued reign of terror” and its refusal to engage “the recognized union, the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU).”

Even as the Ministry of Business says it is continuing to create a reformed set of operational regulations for the scrap metal industry, the umbrella association for operators in the sector feels that the treatment that has been meted out to the industry gives rise to the view that it has now come to be regarded as a pariah.

There is absolutely no way that the authorities could have continued to countenance the relentless pillaging of the installations of the utility companies by thieves targeting metal infrastructure for vandalizing in order to make a living out of selling the metal.

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By Karen Abrams, MBA Technology Consultant   Two days ago a good friend of mine raised a very important question when she interviewed our STEM Robotics team for her television show in Guyana.

Having served in various capacities, in some instances for more than 15 years, more than 40 Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuco) workers attached to the Demerara Sugar Terminal find themselves stuck in low-paying jobs and saddled with what their Shop Stewards say is grossly sub-standard trade union representation that is making no effort to engage the company in the matter of improving their wages and conditions of work.

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