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Even as local tour operators seek to structure their entities to attract a greater share of the visitor market in the hemisphere the idea of Guyana’s greater involvement in a more integrated approach to marketing the tourism product in South America is being mooted by international industry experts.

Guyana can learn more than a thing or two from the news that this year the government of   sister Caribbean Community (Caricom) state Jamaica allocated J$12.8 million to a Craft Enhancement and Business Planning Training Project, which has been set up to improve and strengthen the capacity and business acumen of the country’s producers through increased quantity and diversity of their product offerings to meet, indeed exceed, the demand of the country’s tourist industry.

The vending row begins on Water Street just outside Bounty Supermarket, pushes west on the pavement towards Stabroek Market then forks sharply in the direction of Demico House.

One of the Caribbean’s longest-serving politicians, former Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Mia Mottley has told a Carib-bean Export Development (Caribbean Export) business forum in Kingston, Jamaica that the region now needs a new “development vision to replace the now outdated ones that we have gone through over the past half a century.”

You get a sense from listening to Wilderness Explorers General Man-ager Tony Thorne that trying to run a viable business in Guyana’s tourism industry can be like rowing against a gale force storm.

After having lived in Miami for approximately eight years, studied computer engineering and landed a job with Gateway Computers in Florida, Navin Hansraj decided that was not the direction in which he wanted his life to go.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 14, 2015  

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 615’s trading results showed consideration of $3,515,177 from 173,688 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 614’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,930,504 from 90,931 shares traded in 10 transactions.

International tour operators visiting Guyana never fail to leave these shores without commenting on the underachievement of the country’s tourism sector.

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It has been declared the winner of Caribbean Export’s inaugural ‘Green Exporter of the Year’ Award, but there was a distinct air of unfussiness to the response of the Nand Persaud Investments (NPI) official when congratulations were offered.

Dissatisfaction in the mining industry over what is felt to be disproportionate official interest in the welfare of the sector and of miners when account is taken of the extent of the industry’s contribution to the country’s economy, is—not for the first time—being publicly expressed by President of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) Patrick Harding.

After several years of attending events like GuyExpo, interacting with manufacturers, particularly in the agro-processing sector, monitoring the emergence of the Small Business Bureau and attending endless fora where small business issues are discussed, this newspaper has arrived at some unshakable conclusions.

Caribbean social commentators and academics across the disciplines have, for years, been making more than discreet noises for a region-wide legalization of marijuana.

Even as the growth of the economy continues to depend in various ways on the success of the local food industry, former director of the Food and Drug Analyst Department Marilyn Collins believes that public attitudes and, perhaps more importantly, official policy towards issues of food safety need to keep pace with the growing importance of the food sector.

The local aviation sector continues to expand the frontiers of interior travel and by extension the destination options.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 614’s trading results showed consideration of $1,930,504 from 90,931 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 613’s trading results, which showed consideration of $7,954,243 from 200,850 shares

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Miami cigar maker Jose Montagne has been fighting for more than a decade to protect his catchy Cuban brand name, Guantanamera, from Cuban government trademark lawyers.