Having already benefitted from funding an expertise to support the creation of scores of shadehouses in communities in Guyana to enable the cultivation of hydroponically grown vegetables, local farmers will be securing further technical help from Partners of the Americas through a visit here by Rutgers University Professor Robin Brumfield, a specialist in farm financial management and greenhouse technology.
UG Economics Society members Clive Constantin, Kimberley Samaroo and Said Khalil.
The establishment of the University of Guyana Economics Society is an initiative that was undertaken by students of the Faculty with the support of the Faculty Head and Directors to foster a culture of intellectual discourse on issues relating to business and the economy in Guyana and further afield.
The steady growth of the commercial sector in Guyana is redefining the role of the security industry, taking it beyond the traditional routine of the armed escort required for payroll protection and bank deposits at the end of the trading day.
(Trinidad Express) – Foreign governments that once viewed expatriates largely as a source of revenue just for the money they sent home to their families are starting to focus more on helping their citizens succeed in America — so they can invest more in their homeland.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Gold rose yesterday as bargain hunters waded into the market after prices fell sharply this week on worries about a worsening European debt crisis.
BEIJING (Reuters) – The world’s top four accounting firms will have to bring in Chinese citizens to run their operations in China and end the dominance of foreign partners under new rules announced by the Finance Ministry yesterday.
Just days after President Donald Ramotar’s undertaking that government will provide support for accelerated job-creation in Linden, Region Ten Chairman Sharma Solomon has told Stabroek Business that state-initiated programmes designed to generate private sector activity in the mining community must not only have the backing of the community, but must be free of official controls that place unacceptable limits on Lindeners’ ability to determine how such programmes are managed.
Small businesses could secure an important breakthrough in the near future if plans by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) to make adjustments to its membership criteria to accommodate business enterprises which have traditionally failed to find a home amongst the country’s more established commercial enterprises come to fruition.
Targets
Two things are obvious from the preceding week’s presentation. The first is that both financial and non-financial institutions are targets of the FATCA law, and the other is that the new rules affect them in similar ways.
Stabroek Business has learnt that the recent closure of Brazilian-run mining operations here by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment could become the subject of bilateral discourse as both officials in northern Brazil and the Brazilian Embassy here are reportedly paying an interest in the development.
By Averil Williams
Performance reviews are often misunderstood and underutilized. If done properly, they can ensure success at both the organizational and employee levels.
High risks associated with the likelihood of fires, flooding and damage to property resulting from riots make insurance coverage costly for businesses trading in the city.
The promised investment by the Chinese bauxite-mining company Bosai in dust extractors for its operations at Linden will probably benefit the company much more than it will the community, Region Ten Chairman Sharma Solomon has said.
By Jagdish Bhagwati
NEW YORK – The selection of the American nominee Jim Yong Kim as Presi-dent of the World Bank, over Nigeria’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who was overwhelmingly regarded as a vastly superior candidate, is impossible to condone but easy to explain.
The traditionally conservative nature of local umbrella business organisations sometimes makes sound and effective reporting on matters of business and the economy particularly challenging since issues and questions often arise outside the scope of information that is provided in the reports that are made public by those organisations.
Food security considerations and continually escalating food import bills are yet to push the Caribbean in the direction of investing significantly more resources in its agricultural sector, according to Executive Director of the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) Dr Arlington Chesney.
President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Clinton Urling has set out the Chamber’s stall with regard to its independence from external control and influence by pointing to the role the Advocacy Committee will play in formulating and articulating the positions the chamber holds on critical business and national issues.
In recent years, gold mining in Guyana has drawn attention to itself for more reasons than the fact that the industry has prospered on account of continually rising world market prices for gold.
