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Amerindian vendors make a sale at GuyExpo
Amerindian vendors make a sale at GuyExpo

Cummings sees GuyExpo as helping realise Caricom Single Market goals

GuyExpo has set itself apart as the country’s biggest and best example of public/private sector collaboration on commerce and trade promotion and “by far the best forum for the initial marketing of local small enterprises looking to make an entry into the wider market.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 586’s trading results showed consideration of $564,267 from 19,100 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 585’s trading results, which showed consideration of $19,997,951 from 902,382 shares traded in 14 transactions.

Sir Fred Gollop
Sir Fred Gollop

One Caribbean Media revenues up

(Trinidad Express) – Port of Spain-based One Caribbean Media Ltd (OCM) has recorded growth in revenue for the nine-month period up to September 30, 2014.

Consumer protection and a pleasing commercial culture

After a certain authority figure in a downtown store had been notified that the law required him to engage a furious customer who was demanding a refund since an electronic toy which the customer had bought from the shop a few days earlier had stopped working, he assumed a belligerent posture and proceeded to make the point that he could not consider either a refund or an exchange since it had been two days since the item had been bought.

Caricom, South America, Asia to feature at GuyExpo

With the October 3 to 6 GuyExpo fast approaching, this newspaper has been reliably informed that the event will see representation from Asia, South America and the Caribbean and will include ministerial representation from at least one country.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 579’s trading results showed consideration of $2,066,098 from 84,248 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 578’s trading results, which showed consideration of $2,240,110 from 56,314 shares traded in 16 transactions.

Rice in Essequibo

If Essequibo rice farmers are not even close to walking away from an industry that has served them well for decades, there are signs of an increasing awareness of some of the current uncertainties associated with the sector.

Taking shape: Ramesh Ramotar on a section of the property where the Rooster Resort and Fun Park is being constructed

Onderneeming to get US$1 million resort and fun park

Best known until now as home to the Essequibo Boys School (renamed the New Opportunity Corps), a corrective institution for young offenders, Onderneeming on the Essequibo Coast will shortly become the locale for a facility that is likely to be much more pleasing to its guests.

The Guyana-T&T land for farming deal

It has been almost two years since a delegation from Trinidad and Tobago headed by that country’s Food Production Minister Devant Maraj came to Guyana and held talks with local officials including Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy about an arrangement that would have seen large tracts of local lands being leased by Trinidad and Tobago farmers for the creation of mega farms, the produce from which was to have been shipped directly to the twin-island Republic.

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