Almost eighteen months after its September 13, 2013 launch here, Credit Info Guyana Inc has recorded the first use of credit data generated by the institution as part of the process employed by a local financial institution to support its risk management mechanism and decision-making process for credit applications.
Occupational Safety and Health Specialist Dale Beresford has told Stabroek Business that last Friday’s electrical accident at the Bauxite Company Guyana Inc’s (BCGI) Kurubuku Mines ought to be the subject of an independent investigation and that investigation should be undertaken and the findings made public without delay.
Seven years after the launch of the Wedding Expo product by the Roraima Group of Companies, Chief Executive Officer Captain Gerry Gouveia has told Stabroek Business that the absence of legislation to better facilitate Wedding Tourism in Guyana amounts to “an opportunity that we continue to pass up” to broaden the base of the local tourism industry.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 5, 2015
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 601’s trading results showed consideration of $49,088,362 from 905,442 shares traded in 51 transactions as compared to session 600’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,263,400 from 50,600 shares traded in 8 transactions.
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Recipients of grants from the Small Business Bureau pose with President Donald Ramotar (centre in white shirt) at the National Conference Centre shortly after the presentation ceremony last Friday.
Caribbean Container Inc (CCI), the only enterprise in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) that produces recycled paper says it is prepared to work with local manufacturers in providing access to affordable packaging that meets export standards.
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A few weeks ago Natural Resources and Environment Minister Robert Persaud provided responses to questions put to him by this newspaper about conditions in the mining sector covering both the gold and bauxite industries and embracing such issues as the general state of health of the respective industries, safety and health, the environment and – in the particular case of the bauxite industry, industrial relations.
Sixty-four proprietors of local small businesses are expected to be the first recipients of grants under the Micro and Small Enterprise Development (MSED) project funded through the Low Carbon Development Strategy/Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (LCDS/GRIF) at a ceremony scheduled to take place at the Guyana International Conference Centre this morning.
Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud has told Stabroek Business that projects designed to determine the various sources through which mercury enters the Guianas and the distribution networks that obtain in the region, are part of a wider exercise of seeking to control the movement of the substance into Guyana’s gold-bearing communities.
In this issue of the Stabroek Business we reported on a visit to Guyana earlier this week by Prism Communications, a Jamaican product promotion company.
In just over five months, one of Guyana’s best-known entrepreneurs will commence the creation of a project that will not only take his business pursuits to another level but will also single him out as an investor with a vision for the longer-term future of Guyana.
Executive Director of the European Union-funded Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) Pamela Coke-Hamilton says the body is backing exports to contribute meaningfully to sustaining the economies of the region at a time when marginal economic growth would appear to be on the horizon.
DUANVALE, Trelawny (Jamaica Observer) — Chairman of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association Allan Rickards (AIJCFA) says a number of the projects financed by European Union (EU) money under the Sugar Transformation Unit (STU) in the Ministry of Agriculture, are politically selected for the benefit of the cane farming communities.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A climate-controlled archive in Chicago holds 5 million images of what could be called the African American experience since 1942, including exceptional, intimate photographs of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, singer Billie Holiday and boxer Muhammad Ali.
Joseph E Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, was Chairman of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 600’s trading results showed consideration of $1,263,400 from 50,600 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 599’s trading results, which showed consideration of $1,348,103 from 8,675 shares traded in 9 transactions.
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