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Stabroek Business has learnt that the 80-year-old Carnegie School of Home Economics (CSHE) is set to undergo a major makeover that will result in its transformation into Guyana’s first ever hospitality institute, possibly within the next three years.

Guyana will today become the eighth country to benefit from the commitment given by the global information technology giant Samsung to launch 41 stores in the hemisphere as part an ongoing effort by the South Korean giant “to establish itself as the dominant technology provider in the world.”

As evidence of the approaching Christmas holidays becomes more apparent, the signs of increased commercial activity manifest themselves in a heightened appetite for the profligate disposal of garbage in the commercial capital.

By Hasan Tuluy   Creative entrepreneurs are not byproducts of development.

Last Friday was not the first time that the corner of Alexander and Robb streets hosted a modest display of local products.

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Contractors responsible for the ongoing construction of the City Food Court at Camp and Robb streets, where a worksite accident on December 2 left four workers injured, could face sanctions for failing to formally report the incident to the Ministry of Labour as required under the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

With two weekends now left before Christmas downtown merchants and pavement vendors say the wave of consumer spending which they expect to precede the holidays is yet to materialise.

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John Lewis Jr is blunt about his reason for ‘taking the plunge’ into children’s clothing.

While an air of uncertainty continues to surround the agreement reached between the governments of Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago that will allow Trinidadian investors to secure land for farming, a T&T-based entity appears to be forging ahead with a project aimed at providing processed citrus juices and pulp for major beverage manufacturers in that country.

An experienced former City Hall safety and health professional who is currently in private practice has told Stabroek Business that all of the reported elements in last Monday’s accident at the Robb and Camp streets City Food Court building site point to the need for an urgent investigation and a “swift revelation” of the findings.

This newspaper has commented previously on the urban building boom – particularly as it relates to the growth of commerce in the city – and its implications for exercising an enhanced level of vigilance as far as issues of safety and health are concerned.

With the food and hospitality industry being one of the fastest growing sectors in urban Guyana, local institutions concerned with formulating and ensuring food safety and waste disposal regulations have “significantly added responsibilities”, which they must be equipped to execute efficiently, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Clinton Urling told Stabroek Business in a comment earlier this week.

Some of the barriers to the competiveness of Guyana’s exports on regional markets are the result of constraints that are internal to the economy, Canadian Professor Thomas McKaig told a media briefing in Georgetown earlier this week.

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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.