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At a time when large construction projects have become commonplace in coastal Guyana, the Labour Department of the Ministry of Social Protection is even more determined to rigidly enforce laws governing workplace safety, Minister within the Ministry Simona Broomes told Stabroek Business on Tuesday.

Part of the objective of the proprietors of the North Cummingsburg ‘store’ Web Source is to create as customer-friendly a service as they can in a trading environment that has left the old-fashioned variety store behind.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 640’s trading results showed consideration of $4,630,456 from 240,375 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 639’s trading results, which showed consideration of $5,341,879 from 17,358 shares traded in 3 transactions.

A new peer mentorship-based programme designed to support high-potential women entrepreneurs in the Caribbean targets Guyanese as well as counterparts from several other countries in the region.

Cuba is transforming; and there is no clearer sign of this than the presence at this year’s Havana International Fair of hundreds of western business houses including several major US firms seeking to secure places as close as possible to the top of the cue to seek to do business with a resilient communist regime which, for over more than half a century, Washington had gone to all sorts of extremes to topple.

Black Sigatoga has been wreaking havoc in the local plantain industry and while the disease is probably always likely to pose a threat to the agriculture sector, examples like the one in picture of the combined efforts of farmers and NAREI can help keep the disease at bay.

Constant trade deficit Guyana, like several other countries, runs a constant trade deficit.

In the wake of last week’s disclosure by the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department that a brand of evaporated milk imported into Guyana had been (apparently deliberately) mislabeled and that its vegetable content was harmful to young children, Stabroek Business has been informed that the continued proliferation of various brands of imported foods and other items by local distributors is placing the regulatory agency under increasing monitoring pressure and that some brands are finding their way onto the local market without complying with the importation-related regulations.

The newest tenants of Orange Walk say they feel more than a trifle betrayed by the Georgetown Municipality, insistent as they are that they were promised that their original vending spots situated roughly on the corners of Robb and Bourda streets would be restored to them once the ancient Bedford Methodist school had been torn down.

By Marilyn Collins The Food Manufac-turers’ Institute (FMI) “2011 Trends Survey” found that 13% of participants reportedly believe that eating food past its sell-by date is not a serious health risk; 10% reportedly believe that eating food past its best-by date is a serious health risk and 25% of people always discard food when it is past its sell-by date.

UWI/China Agricultural Innovation Park launched The first phase of the University of the West Indies (UWI) St Augustine Campus UWI/ China Agricultural University (CAU) Agricultural Innovation Park (AIP) has been launched at the university’s 200 acre farm at Orange Grove.

Gold Prices for the three day period  ending Thursday  October 29, 2015

By Karen Abrams Karen Abrams is a Consultant for the Tech Industry.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 639’s trading results showed consideration of $5,341,879 from 17,358 shares traded in 3 transactions as compared to session 638’s trading results, which showed consideration of $7,791,483 from 296,103 shares traded in 10 transactions.

What the Mayor and City Council says is a new approach in its efforts to “rebrand, renew and revitalize” the capital will be unveiled this morning in the form of a three-day ‘Green Conference and Expo’ at two neighboring city venues: the Pro-menade Gardens and the Parade Ground.

Vanetta Williams is 34, a mother of four and the energetic owner of a business establishment that offers services, some of which might not ordinarily be associated with a woman.

Business Cartoons

At a time when governments in developed countries are embracing legislative measures to protect their populations against food-borne diseases associated with lax importation policies that pay less than careful attention to food imports, it behooves governments in poor countries, which, on account of their already profligate and often less than carefully overseen import policies, to follow suit by adhering to their own already existing laws and regulations and where necessary to have those tightened.

The Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) Development and Building Alternative Livelihoods for Vulnerable Groups project, the first to be administered under the institutional framework created by the Small Business Act of 2004 has had to significantly reduce its originally set job-creation targets under its Credit Guarantee and Interest Payment Support Facility as well as its Low Carbon Grant Scheme designed to assist beneficiaries with seed capital to start up or expand their businesses.

The jury still appears to be out on last week’s official announcement that as of January 1 next year the Government of Guyana will bring into effect a full-fledged ban on the importation of Styrofoam.