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GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone No 223-6175/6) reports that session 225’s trading results showed consideration of $6,682,987 from 536,535 shares traded in 15 transactions as compared to session 224 which showed consideration of $407,900 from 13,100 shares traded in 5 transactions.

Developing countries need to act urgently to implement disaster risk management mechanisms in order to reduce their vulnerability to economic losses resulting from natural disasters, according to a paper prepared by the Common-wealth Business Council (CBC) and discussed at last week’s Commonwealth Fin-ance Ministers Meeting in Georgetown.

Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

DIGICEL founder and Chief Executive Officer Dennis O’Brien has launched a strident attack on the monopoly on international telephone calls held by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company, (GT&T) prompting a sharp response from the ATN subsidiary’s Chief Executive Officer Brigadier General (ret’d) Joe Singh.

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Despite the intervention of President Bharrat Jagdeo and the partial removal of the obstacles to the normalization of the country’s scrap metal trade, the fate of the industry still appears to be far from decided, according to Con-sultant to the Guyana Scrap Metal Dealers Association (GSMDA) Malik Cave.

If a competitor came into your market tomorrow and directly challenged your business in a very focused, organized, unyielding, systematic and aggressive way, would your business survive the month?

DIGICEL’s Chief Executive Officer and one of Europe’s most successful businessmen Dennis O’Brien has said that he believes that Guyana is one of the best locations in the region for investment.

Over the past year, Guyana has witnessed some remarkable achievements in the economic area – almost 5% growth in 2006; this is expected to remain strong in 2007.

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DIGICEL Chief Executive Officer Dennis O’Brien has sounded a warning to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), its competitor in the local cellular service sector that it is seeking to overtake the Atlantic Tele Network subsidiary as Guyana’s leading service provider within the next six months.

Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

The ongoing programme by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) to provide remote rural communities with radio telephone services is creating a significant transformation in the lives of residents of those communities, according to Allison Parker, the Company’s Public Relations Officer.

Caribbean-born residents of the United States and their second and third generation offspring represent a market of more than 25 million people worth around US$6 B that is yet to be effectively exploited by the region, according to United States-based Guyanese business consultant Karen Abrams.

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Although the Guyana Small Business Associa-tion (GSBA) deserves a measure of credit for putting together the recent forum at which the President of the Small Enterprising Business Association (SEBA) of Trinidad and Tobago Jonathan Adams made an enlightening presentation on the role that small business plays in that country, the fact that the forum attracted no more than a handful of people, many of whom cannot be described as small business owners in the true sense of the word, was a disappointment.

Given this is Agriculture month; I thought it appropriate to re-address a topic I have discussed many times in this column, that Guyana has the capacity as a nation to feed the entire region.

The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) continues to combine its contractual obligation to expanding and modernizing the telecommunications sector infrastructure in Guyana with a corporate commitment to utilizing the technological and other resources at its disposal to improve the quality of education in Guyana, according to Allison Parker, the company’s Public Rela-tions Officer.

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