Business

Entrepreneur, Managing Director, GeoTechVision   Recently, I was a participant in the Infodev/World Bank Accelerate Caribbean Study Tour in Florida and Toronto.

The Government Technical Institute (GTI) is collaborating with three Canadian universities—Durham College, College of North Atlantic and the Marine Institute—to introduce a new course in auto electronics from September this year.

Some of the country’s key public and private sector entities have registered to participate in a forum designed to secure a close-up look at security-related contemporary developments in information technology designed to further safeguard their IT infrastructure.

By Karen Abrams, MBA Marketing Startup Consultant   It has been more than 15 years since the first e-government program was launched in the United States, while in 2015, stakeholders in developing nations like Guyana, have yet to realize the benefits of computerized government departments that use technology to improve customer service, save lives, reduce costs, improve service delivery and extend service hours.

By David E. Falconer Manager, Sales and Business Development, Creditinfo Guyana   Almost a century ago, an American named John Pierpoint Morgan, or J P Morgan who is more widely known as the most powerful financier in the world, when asked by a House committee if commercial credit was based primarily on money or property, responded instead to everyone’s surprise that in fact it was based on character.

Stock market updates

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending  Thursday  April 28, 2016

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)

Our cameraman caught this group of taxpayers at the Service Site on the ground floor of the City Mall on Thursday discharging their obligation to the state before the period for doing so passes.

Sarafina Edghill is a slight twenty-one-year-old graduate of the Carnegie School of Home Economics (CSHE) who has traded a schoolgirl dream of becoming an attorney for an adult preoccupation with an entrepreneurial excursion into culinary pursuits.

The Central Corentyne business community may have experienced a drop in commercial activity of between 30 and 40 per cent for this year so far, newly elected President of the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce Rafeek Mohammed has said.

President David Granger’s directive earlier this week that the D’urban Park Development Project be placed under the control of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure has won the support of the General Contractors Association of Guyana (GCAG) the body which had earlier spoken out publicly against “the shabby and perhaps even risky work” completed so far on the project.

Stabroek Business has been reliably informed that government has now agreed to commence negotiations with the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) though, according to the source, no date has as yet been fixed for the negotiation.

By Shawn Cumberbatch shawncumberbatch@nationnews.com Reprinted from the Barbados Nation In the Barbadian household the landline was once a precious thing.

Ravi Doobay is one of several farmers who have come from various parts of the country to settle on farmlands at Laluni.

Concerns over limitations to the capacity of the Government Food and Drug Analyst Department (GA-FDD) to effectively monitor the importation of suspected fake foods—particularly milk—into the country and more importantly to prevent the imports from being placed on the local market are raising questions as to whether this deficiency is not now putting at serious risk the health of local consumers including, worryingly, children whose diet includes a significant intake of manufactured infant formula.

Against the backdrop of a statement issued by the Office of Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment earlier this week alluding to damage to the bank of the Potaro River arising out of illegal mining activity, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has issued a statement reminding miners that the mining of river banks (buffer zones) is against the law and prohibiting such activity “without due consideration of and specific consideration from the commission.”

Currently in its 125th year of existence, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) last year set a modest but noteworthy membership record which, it says, reflects a growing interest by the urban business community in the services it has to offer.

Barbados hosting first regional business startups forum The Caribbean business community would appear to be attaching considerable importance to the April 29 – 30 First Caribbean Startup Summit at the Lloyd Erskine Centre in Barbados which is being held to support regional startup entrepreneurs and which, reports from Bridgetown say, will feature a range of regional and international speakers as well as representatives from a host of business organizations from across the Caribbean.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday  April 21, 2016