Business

State-owned corporation to succeed LEAP

New entity to inherit predecessor’s assets, sustain support for its projects Stabroek Business has secured information setting out the organizational outline, management structure and key objectives of a new body that is to replace the Linden Economic Advancement Programme (LEAP) and lend continuity to providing technical and financial support to strengthening the base of the fragile private sector in one of the country’s key administrative regions.

University of Guyana Campus, Turkeyen
University of Guyana Campus, Turkeyen

UG-private sector collaboration could create new agri business degree by next year

A collaborative initiative between the University of Guyana and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) designed to better position the University to contribute to enhancing the human resource and technical capacities of the local corporate community could see the introduction of a new three-year degree programme in Agri Business at Turkeyen as early as the 2010/2011 academic year according to a senior PSC official who is one of the prime movers behind the collaborative effort.

Stock Market Update

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 315’s trading results showed consideration of $949,070 from 32,600 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 314 which showed consideration of $1,078,715 from 29,107 shares traded in 14 transactions. 

NAMLICO products on exhibition

NAMILCO using ISO accolade to forge ahead in markets

Buoyed by its new international standards accolade the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) is seeking to further enhance its reputation as a local manufacturer by focussing both on the qualitative enhancement of its products to address consumer health considerations as well as on the increase of its growing regional market share.

City of shame: Environmental anarchy

Georgetown is once again experiencing one of those periods during which we appear to be  overwhelmed by a profusion of garbage just about everywhere and the fact that this has been hardly cause for public comment says a lot about just  how ‘comfortable’ we all appear to have become in our condition of squalor This has been a recurring theme of editorials in this newspaper but even at the risk of being repetitive we believe that the state of the capital has become nothing short of a scandal and that until there is a genuine and sustained effort to remedy the problem the issue  cannot be allowed to disappear from public view.

Trading summer days for winter nights

Under Attack Sometime soon the members of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) will commence talks in earnest with Canada on the establishment of a Free Trade Agreement to govern trade and economic relations between the two sides. 

‘Born again’ IMF a blessing to crisis-hit Caricom

Initiatives by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to shore up its unwholesome reputation with developing countries appear to have restored some measure of belief in the much-maligned  Bretton Woods lending institution among some developing countries including Caricom members.

GGMC grappling with the challenges of the mining sector

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) today celebrates the 30th anniversary of its establishment against the backdrop of myriad challenges associated with the administration of an industry which, over the years,  has assumed growing significance in the Guyana economy.

 Regional Chairman Mortimer Mingo

LEAP ends today

-successor entity still a mystery By Cathy Richards Stakeholders in Linden are concerned that there are still no clear indications about the make-up of the successor programme in-tended to manage the soon-to-be-defunct LEAP.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 314’s trading results showed consideration of $1,078,715 from 29,107 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 313 which showed consideration of $2,044,306 from 64,543 shares traded in 8 transactions. 

Tender Board taking aim against bogus NIS, GRA compliances

Despite what has been represented to this newspaper as “a significant tightening up” of the procedures associated with the processing of tenders for state contracts, sources close to both the National Insurance Scheme and the Guyana Revenue Authority say that there are still cases of service providers who are significantly in arrears in their NIS and GRA payments who attempt to secure compliances.

Guarding against the social fallout from the global economic crisis

One of the more interesting features of the recent report on the impact of the global economic and financial crisis on the labour market in Latin America and the Caribbean prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) is its assessment of likely changes in employment patterns arising out of job losses in the formal employment sector.

Gerhard Ramsaroop

A Short Guide to Windows Vista

By Gerhard Ramsaroop (reviewed by Brian Persaud – a leading IT engineer) Microsoft Windows is a computer operating system (OS) first introduced in November 1985 and today Windows has approximately 90% of the client computer market share worldwide.

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