Business

Retired Guyana Defence Force Staff Sergeant Claudette Croft, her daughter Roxanne and son Raymond are working diligently to grow what, though still a fledgling enterprise appears to have all the potential for rapid growth.

For almost two years Optique Vision Care has been providing a comprehensive eye care service at affordable prices to Guyanese.

  Modest snackettes continue to spring up in Georgetown with startling frequency, an indication that food is one of the fastest growing services in the urban business culture.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday  September 17, 2015          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)            *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.

Think of the Garden of Eden and the biblical fields of plenty come to mind.

Even as the government contemplates its next moves to shore up a mining sector reeling under pressure from continually falling gold prices, a succession of mining accidents some of which have resulted in multiple deaths and what, at this stage, is just the beginning of potentially scandalous allegations of large scale smuggling of gold out of Guyana, the recently concluded four-member Commission of Inquiry into “mine accident deaths by pit collapse” has launched a scathing attack on the sector’s key regulatory agency, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) charging, among other things, that the agency lacks “the focus, capacity and/or strategy to ensure that (gold mining) operations are meeting their legal responsibilities under accepted health and safety laws and guidelines and the requirements of the Mining Act.”

Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection Simona Broomes is seeking a meeting with officials of urban business support organizations “as early as next week” to engage them in discussions arising out of her snap visits to several business houses along Regent Street, during which she unearthed “widespread and entirely unacceptable transgressions of labour laws” many of which extend into “human rights transgressions.”

Private sector entities that flout the country’s labour laws should not be eligible to tender for state contracts, Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection Simona Broomes had declared in her Tuesday August 18 budget presentation in the National Assembly.

From the various accounts that we have received regarding Junior Minister Simona Broomes’ walkabout on Regent Street on Tuesday, including the account given to us by the minister herself, the experience was both revealing and deeply disturbing.

By Marilyn Collins   Commercially produced ice could be an important vehicle for the transmission of foodborne disease with its attendant debilitating effects.

In 2012, three Eco Lodges, Surama, Rewa, and Karanambu formed a business initiative: ‘The North Rupununi Cluster’.

At 21 and 26 respectively, Shivram Arjun and Al Fredericks are on the verge of living their childhood dreams.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has endorsed the announcement made by Finance Minister Winston Jordan in his 2015 budget presentation that government intends to fully implement the provision contained in the Small Business Act allocating 20 per cent of state contracts to the small business sector, though Chamber President Lance Hinds says he believes there should be conditions attached to that allocation.

Colin Bollers’ current business pursuits have their origins in skills learnt from his father who, as Chief Taxidermist at the National Museum, was tasked with the responsibility of preparing, stuffing and mounting the skins of animals for display.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 632’s trading results showed consideration of $901,749 from 9,804 shares traded in 7 transactions as compared to session 631’s trading results, which showed consideration of $2,667,300 from 15,210 shares traded in 11 transactions.

Having grown out a desire by an enterprising woman to increase the volume of natural products, P’ree Designs and Body Line’s natural deodorant may well have become a landmark development in the country’s manufacturing sector.