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Watch out for expired snack foods, drinks The Food Safety Department of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council is  cautioning  parents to verify the expiry dates on the containers of popular snack foods and drinks before making purchases and to resist the temptation to knowingly purchase expired items at reduced prices   to fill children’s lunch kits.

Jamaica among Caricom countries likely to be most affected Latin American and Caribbean recipients  of money remittances  have received more worrying news of yet another predicted decline in remittance flows to the region as job cuts and the attendant need to curb spending continue to impact on immigrants in developed countries, chiefly the United States.

This newspaper has learnt that the anticipated increased demand for snack foods and drinks ahead of the start of the new school year may have precipitated the appearance on the market of quantities of expired and near-expired  products, which, under the national and municipal food safety regulations, ought correctly to be removed from circulation and destroyed.

By Brian Persaud (IT Engineer) & Gerhard Ramsaroop (Manager, GuyanaNet) E-mails: itbrian@gmail.com

A local Business School is collaborating with an Australian institution to offer an 18-month Masters Degree in Project Management, beginning in January next year.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The thought of entering the business of honey production was never among the list of things to do for Andrew Green and Michael Crawford prior to their redundancies at the Alumina Partners of Jamaica Limited (Alpart) in St Elizabeth.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 317’s trading results showed consideration of $1,069,554 from 44,331 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 316 which showed consideration of $260,034 from 23,086 shares traded in 10 transactions. 

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-to be run by St Augustine Business School lecturers Some of the city’s more popular eating houses are guilty of food safety and other health-related violations and the limited capacity of the Georgetown City Council’s Food Hygiene Department to effectively enforce the standards set under the law may mean that consuming food prepared by some of those facilities may pose health risks for patrons.

Transgressions common among some big eating houses– Food Hygiene Department Some of the city’s more popular eating houses are guilty of food safety and other health-related violations and the limited capacity of the Georgetown City Council’s Food Hygiene Department to effectively enforce the standards set under the law may mean that consuming food prepared by some of those facilities may pose health risks for patrons.

Recently, this newspaper witnessed, first hand, shocking evidence of a flagrant violation of food safety standards at a snackette run by a prominent city department store.

Equipping persons running small entrepreneurial ventures to transform their operations into orthodox businesses is one of the key pursuits of a privately-run local training institution which says that it is seeking to make “quality education” in a range of skills and disciplines more accessible to Guyanese.

By Jonathan Said Carbbean Community (CARICOM) countries continue their economic integration journey through the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME).

ANKARA, (Reuters) – The global economic crisis could  have a “disastrous” impact on health and school projects in the  developing world unless rich nations spend a tiny fraction of  stimulus measures to help the poor, a World Bank official said.

Small Business Profile For John Caesar, the production of barley, corn and plantain flours back in the 1970’s, started as a means of satisfying his family’s breakfast needs.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Less than a year ago, Peruvian  elites smugly began calling their country a “Latin tiger” and  predicted that it had entered a magical phase of constant  economic growth that would outshine the rest of Latin America.

NEW YORK, (Reuters)- The junk-stock rally lives on. The biggest winners since the U.S.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 316’s trading results showed consideration of $260,034 from 23,086 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 315 which showed consideration of $949,070 from 32,600 shares traded in 8  transactions.