For several years now the Food and Drug Analyst Department has been complaining about the paucity of resources with which to carry out its functions which functions include the monitoring of food and drug imports with a view to determining their safety and fitness or otherwise for human consumption and ensuring, as far as possible, that expired foodstuff is removed from the shelves of supermarkets and outlets rather than sold to consumers at risk to their health.
The Canadian-based company, Sandspring Resources Ltd last month announced “further encouraging gold and copper assay results” from a recently completed drilling programme at its Toraparu gold/copper deposit in Guyana.
If Global Hardware gets its way the Polypropylene Random Copolymer (PPR) pipe which it currently manufactures and markets in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean will seize a considerable share of the domestic plumbing market currently controlled by the familiar PVC pipe.
Guyanese-born Quality Auditor Owen Ramsay has stated in a paper prepared for Stabroek Business that despite the support of various international agencies most companies in Guyana that participate in ISO 9001 standards enhancement programmes “are not operating close to or at world class levels.”
Businessman and aircraft pilot Gerry Goveia has told Stabroek Business that the worst possible response that can come from the Caribbean in the wake of last Saturday’s Caribbean Airlines crash upon landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri is to seek to definitively attribute blame ahead of “an official technical report” on the incident.
The latest fortnightly Tropical Timber Market report produced by the International Tropical Timber Market Organization (ITTO) has alluded to work being done by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) to upgrade the capacity of the country’s wood-processing industry.
The advent and steady growth of the Diamond New Housing Scheme on the East Bank Demerara has spawned a handful of thriving small businesses that cater mostly to the needs of commuters wending their way home.
If the current continually escalating demand for recycled metal signals a steady increase in industrial production following the global economic crisis, the search by the world’s more aggressive economies for recycled metal has become a mixed blessing for the international community.
Potential local home owners are being offered an opportunity to view a model home created by Guyanese manufacturer Bulkan Timber Works which, according to the company’s Managing Director Howard Bulkan, has, up until now, been marketed primarily in other Caribbean territories.
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) is partnering with Starr Computers to make what the latter’s Chief Executive Officer Mike Mohan anticipates will be “a significant information technology input” at this weekend’s Building Expo, scheduled to open today at the National Stadium, Providence.
Budding Relationship
In this the third discussion about the village of Victoria, one of the many rural communities facing grave economic and social challenges, an effort is made to highlight a few issues aimed at promoting and solidifying its development.
When you meet Arlene Ross for the first time she does not strike you as being a hard-nosed entrepreneur, who weighs risks, crunches numbers and spends much of her time travelling hundreds of miles by air – sometimes as often as once a week – to acquire stock and explore new ventures.
The strengthening of relations between Berbice farmers and actual and potential regional and international commodity markets is one of the positive outcomes of the Berbice Expo, now in its seventh year, according to Vice President of the Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce Leekah Rambrich.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 418’s trading results showed consideration of $1,578,400 from 67,720 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 417 which showed consideration of $1,650,177 from 62,452 shares traded in 11 transactions.
Conceivably, the Consumer Affairs Act of 2011 can significantly address the relationship between sellers and buyers in the local commercial culture and there is every reason why presidential assent should be hastened and full and effective implementation realized at the earliest possible time.
A senior Private Sector Commission (PSC) official has told Stabroek Business that the Guyanese business community is currently afflicted with a low level of confidence in the state of the local security environment, particularly the ineffectiveness of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to curb the proliferation of crime.
The downturn in the fortunes of the Caribbean’s two traditionally most successful agricultural commodities, sugar and bananas may have sown seeds of doubt in the minds of regional policymakers regarding the role of the food and agriculture sectors in the future of regional economies, according to one of the region’s leading agricultural specialists.
