Business

The centre aisle of Bourda Market is usually the liveliest. It is where the butchers dwell.

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.

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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. 

Marjorie Rodrigues is a 50-year-old an Arawak woman born in the village of Santa Rosa at Moruka in Region One.

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.

Jerry Bacchus is an unpretentious if decidedly focused businessman who prefers to swap the much overused title of entrepreneur for the less fashionable one of “flat foot hustler.”

Douglas Deen is anticipating his company’s third consecutive appearance at GuyExpo at September month end.

Notes 1 – Interim Results 2 – Prospective Dividends 3 – Shows year-end EPS but Interim Dividend EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

In a recent interview with this newspaper the new Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Ronald Webster said that small local clothing manufacturers concerned over the importation of cheap clothing and what they consider to be the unfair competition that such imports present for local seamstresses and other manufacturers should make their views known to the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association.

A few days ago, the Executive Director of the Barbados Manufacturers Association (BMA) Bobbi McKay spoke with more than 250 Barbadians from the Diaspora who had returned to the island for a convention to support local manufacturers by acquiring their produce, using it and recommending those products to other friends and relatives residing abroad.

New Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Ronald Webster has said that he is seeking respect for the organisation as an independent, rational thinking body and a good broker in times of dispute.

At 50, Cyrille Haynes is about to embark on a new career path.