Jamaican-born businesswoman Valrie Grant, whose company GeoTech Vision Enterprises has established a second home here in Guyana last Thursday told the opening ceremony of the 2016 Jubilee Anniversary GuyExpo that the central bank coupled with commercial banks can play a significant role in supporting the channeling of investment to the small business sector.
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) wants regional governments to play a major facilitating role in properly positioning the private sector to drive a competitive and resilient economy in the Caribbean.
NEW YORK/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German drugs and chemicals group Bayer has made an unsolicited takeover proposal to US seeds company Monsanto, aiming to create the world’s biggest agricultural supplier and take advantage of converging pesticides and seeds markets.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 668’s trading results showed consideration of $26,424,867 from 742,364 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 667’s trading results, which showed consideration of $12,857,578 from 73,271 shares traded in 5 transactions.
Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday May 19, 2016
By Kenneth Rogoff CAMBRIDGE – Are emerging-market central banks overweight in dollars and underweight in gold?
Annabelle Carter-Sharma’s ambitious entrepreneurial adventure into the creation of what is envisaged as a three-phase, multi-million-dollar fun park infrastructure marks an attempt to push the frontiers of local children’s entertainment beyond what she considers to be the range of under-fulfilling options that are currently available.
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NOT GOOD FOR TOURISM: These visitors who arrived in Guyana on Wednesday evening to be part of the country’s Jubilee celebrations were required to queue for information about their bags which had been left behind by LIAT.
Understandably, we have no clear idea of the numbers that will arrive here over the next week to be part of the country’s 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations, though from all that we have been hearing Guyanese from the diaspora, some of whom may well not have set foot on their native soil in decades, will be ‘touching down’ here to participate in the historic celebrations.
Even as Monday’s ceremony appears to have signalled an end to the battle by the National Air Transport Association (NATA) to prevent the former Ogle International Airport facility from being renamed the Eugene F Correia International Airport, there are clear signs that the feuding between the management of Ogle Airport Inc and several of the other operators there may persist for some while longer.
In the Pomeroon River, there continues to be an awareness that the coconut market can provide a lucrative entrepreneurial option, so much so that Pomeroon landowners, who had just a few years ago had turned their backs on the land and headed for the gold fields, are making the trek back.
A fair number of people – including some employees of the company with whom this newspaper spoke – have commented favourably on the grit and determination with which the Guyana Fire Service battled Monday’s conflagration at the Gafoors Houston Complex.
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By Valrie Grant Entrepreneur, Managing Director, GeoTechVision Running your own business is a real career path, but in the Caribbean context traditional classrooms and curriculum aren’t set up for future entrepreneurs.
Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday May 12, 2016
The ongoing saga of the challenges associated with creating an enhanced sense of order in downtown Georgetown and creating convivial spaces in the country’s capital could take yet another turn shortly as city merchants seek to bring their concerns to the attention of the municipality.
Against the background of claims made by members of the National Air Transport Association (NATA) that the recently renamed Eugene F Correia Airport continued to be dominated by a single company through rigid control of the Board of Ogle Airport Inc (OAI), Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson used his presentation at the renaming ceremony to underscore the fact that the facility remains a state asset.
Even as most Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries continue to struggle for market access for their manufactured goods on European and North American markets, Jamaica, long the regional leader in brands that find favour on the shelves of some of the more popular metropolitan markets, continues to forge ahead.
The efforts of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) to induct greater numbers of local small and medium enterprises into the mainstream business sector has led to its Membership Committee being accorded increasingly weighty responsibilities in the period ahead.
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