Business

(Barbados Nation) Digicel Barbados has appealed to Government to approve its application for a fixed line service in order to level the telecommunications playing field.

(Trinidad Express) Brazilian energy company Petrobras has agreed to partner with Trinidad and Tobago in energy initiatives, says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

Melissa Barnwell is obsessed with the idea that she is destined to become a successful entrepreneur.

With eating out growing increasingly popular in urban centres across Guyana, local public health officials are paying increasing attention to the health risks associated with the practice.

Buyers and sellers may be doing their best to put a brave face on it, but the available evidence would appear to suggest that the tidal wave of seasonal consumerism expected at this time of year is being put on hold by the November 28 general elections, now just over a week away.

Weak The current administration was aware of the need to push investment in Guyana in an effort to grow the economy and to create jobs, and was engaged in several courses of action to achieve economic diversification through investment. 

The face of Sheriff Street has been changing continually over the past two decades or so.

Attracting sustained private sector financial sponsorship for sport in Guyana, given a business community that comprises mostly small and medium-scale business enterprises is a challenge which only a handful of local sports organisations have been able to meet.

Once you frequent the streets of the capital and its environment at night it will quickly become apparent to you that the number of vendors offering an assortment of home-cooked dishes for sale, has increased significantly in recent years.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 434’s trading results showed consideration of $13,094,196 from 604,578 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 433 which showed consideration of $582,155 from 47,850 shares traded in 3 transactions. 

Business Cartoons

Last Saturday’s opening of the New Stelling View Mall was an unquestionable triumph for the small business sector.

The theft of fuel markers from the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) is integrated into a “profitable racket” that embraces some GEA employees, fuel smugglers and some legitimate business operators, an energy sector source has told the Stabroek Business.

The Business Cartoon

Municipal officials are doing their best to put a brave face on the problem.

Officials of various small and medium-sized business enterprises from across the region will meet in Guyana from November 14 -16 to participate in a forum being sponsored by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to explore possibilities for increased networking and ultimately expanding the levels of intra-regional trade.

Guyana’s tourism product, the Eco-Tour has also been called the Amazon Adventure among local tourism officials and there often appears a reluctance to concede that tourism, as a major money-earner, is yet to catch on in Guyana.

In recent years, China’s emergence as an economic power has overshadowed that of other dynamic Asian economies, such as Korea.

Regional legislators and regulators need to act collaboratively and with greater haste to better position Caribbean countries to remove their traditional sectors from within monopoly structures and into a more competitive environment, Barbados Minister of Commerce and Industry Haynesley Benn told the Ninth Annual Conference of the Organization of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OCUR).

GASCI Summary of Financials Session 433 November 9, 2011