Ask most small and micro businesses in Guyana what most threatens their capacity to grow and they will probably tell you something about the indifference of both the major local lending institutions and the private sector umbrella organizations to their concerns.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 478’s trading results showed consideration of $1,228,733 from 60,951 shares traded in 7 transactions as compared to session 477 which showed consideration of $3,137,724 from 149,582 shares traded in 12 transactions.
Mahdia is full of surprises. Not least of those is the fact that if you travel to this small township in the Potaro-Siparuni region you are more likely than not to meet one, possibly more, fellow coastlanders.
– says crime, job scarcity driving migration
Chairman of Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL) Yesu Persaud says that while he would advise potential investors to invest in Guyana, he believes that the need exists for the creation of a one-stop agency to facilitate them.
Personal
The decision to leave one’s country is a personal one, and as is often the case, the reasons are linked to ambition, economics, and safety and security.
– joint ventures with bigger investors a likely option
The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) is currently studying a proposal received from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MNRE) which the ministry says is aimed at transforming and upgrading the activities of small miners “into organized and modernized mining.”
One of the country’s leading occupational safety and health specialists has told Stabroek Business that government and the private sector must share the blame for the fact that insofar as local safety and health standards are concerned, “as a country, we are in a bad way”.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 477’s trading results showed consideration of $3,137,724 from 149,582 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 476 which showed consideration of $4,691,688 from 225,915 shares traded in 11 transactions.
For the time being at least Guyanese author Maureen Rampertab’s recently launched second book of stories for children, Story Time, is probably safe from the clutches of the predators whose illegal copying and selling of school texts has robbed many an author, publisher and local bookstore of revenues to which they are entitled.
– music executive
Failure to rein in flagrant copyright transgression in Guyana has resulted in the impoverishment of the local music industry and the frustration of indigenous artistes, according to the head of one of the country’s leading recording studios.
Sections of the mining industry that were affected by the recent protests at Linden which impeded the movement of critical supplies to some interior mining locations for several weeks are “rolling again” according to an official of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA).
Critics of the distracting noise levels emanating from the loud music from ‘boom boom’ boxes that have been an integral part of the annual GuyExpo in previous years appear to have gotten their way with the organizers, according to GuyExpo 2012 Public Relations Officer Indranauth Haralsingh.
In a recent interview with this newspaper Director of Tourism at the Guyana Tourism Authority, Indranauth Haralsingh, who is serving as the public relations ‘point man’ for this year’s GUYEXPO, declared that the event which begins later this month will be seeking to attract more overseas buyers in order to expand external markets for Guyana’s manufactured products.
Diaspora Unit
Many years after they left the country for a variety of reasons, and settled in other places around the globe, the diaspora that Guyanese became is now a focus of the Guyana Government.
A “financially sound” Roraima Airways is making significant investments aimed at expanding both its aviation and hospitality operations over the next two years, Group Chief Executive Officer, Captain Gerry Gouveia, told his staff at a special meeting held on Monday to announce a range of activities to mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of the company.