Business

The challenges to the country’s gold mining industry arising out of a drop in the price of gold and pressures to mitigate the environmental hazards linked to the use of mercury appear to be priority areas in the Guyana Mining School and Training Centre’s efforts to deliver an intensive regime of training for the country’s miners this year.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) says it expects political parties contesting the May 11 general elections to focus less on rhetoric and invective and more on the policies and specific initiatives they intend to pursue if elected to office to advance the economic interests of the nation.

By Dale Beresford   One expects that whenever workplace accidents occur there will be an expectation that management of the workplace has to account for the accident and its consequences.

Guyana is among a number of Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries benefiting from the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the development of a viable small ruminant industry in the region.

The Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security (MOLHSS) is still to complete reports on four private sector workplace accidents that occurred in various parts of the country between December last year and February, a circumstance which a safety and health consultant has told this newspaper is “unacceptable in the circumstances.”

By Wayne Dass, CFA Chief Executive Officer Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Limited (CariCRIS) CariCRIS’ is pleased to report that its February 24-27 inaugural Credit Risk Workshop in Guyana held at the Pegasus Hotel was – based on feedback received from the attendees – a successful and value-adding exercise.

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Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 605’s trading results showed consideration of $711,622 from 16,487 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 604’s trading results, which showed consideration of $29,316,743 from 262,239 shares traded in 30 transactions.

This newspaper has been doing as much as any other section of the media to publicise the manufacturing sector, its challenges and such accomplishments as it has realized.

“Guyana has all of the ingredients necessary to reclaim its position as the bread basket of the Caribbean and the region needs to focus on cultivating high-yielding varieties of [cassava] as well as addressing the processing and commercialization considerations associated with [its] popularization,” newly appointed Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Resident Representative in Guyana, Reuben Robertson has told Stabroek Business.

Stabroek Business has learnt that the region’s first ever credit-rating agency, the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Ltd (CARICRIS) is currently engaging the Bank of Guyana (BoG) with a view to the local entity becoming a member of its Board of Directors.

All sorts of stories have circulated about the practice of offering expired and counterfeit brands of food and drugs for sale on the local market.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US consumer prices fell over the past year for the first time since 2009 as gasoline prices continued to tumble, which could allow a cautious Federal Reserve more room to hold off on raising interest rates.

Ryan Braithwaite is one of a growing number of young Guyanese professionals who have slipped into the world of business.

(Trinidad Express) – Although Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela are working together to develop the energy sector in both countries, more issues could be addressed that would be mutually beneficial.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 604’s trading results showed consideration of $29,316,743 from 262,239 shares traded in 30 transactions as compared to session 603’s trading results, which showed consideration of $4,327,173 from 58,745 shares traded in 27 transactions.

Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Chris and Chanchal Persaud believe that Umami, their nearly two-year-old local enterprise has some distinct competitive advantages over similar businesses here in Guyana and almost certainly elsewhere in the region.