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The APNU+AFC government does not have a strategic approach for dealing with the Private Sector Commission (PSC); thus its recent reactive response to the legitimate concerns expressed by that organisation in relation to the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) Bill, parking meter controversy, rule of law and economy have been highly propagandistic and unhelpful if one believes that the private sector is indeed the engine of growth.

By SHARIEF KHAN   THE backlash of the FITUG one-day protest last Friday is turning out to be furious and is intensifying the rift between government and the dissident seven-member trade union alliance.

Many Venezuelan opposition leaders and exiles are hopeful that President Trump will take a tough line on Venezuela, and help restore democracy in that country.

‘Altering’ More Profitable Now Than Tailoring – Hermon The Small Businessman HERMON Bholaisingh (43), is a tailor who comes from a family of tailors.

Before proceeding with today’s article, a comment on the work of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) would not be inappropriate.

$5.5m Owed To The Caribbean’s Most Modern Workshop COLDINGEN Workshop on the East Coast is a multi-million dollar maintenance facility built by the East Germans in 1980 and thrown into op­eration two years later.

Othneil Chance, contractor, ‘From day one when I heard about the parking meter I said government should rethink putting it in place.

I worked in the Guyana sugar industry for decades, ending my career in 1999 as a Director of GuySuCo specifically in charge of marketing.

The PPP unanimously decided in about 1994-5 to propose to the Select Committee on Consti-tutional Reform established by the Sixth Parliament (1992-97) that a president should serve only two terms.

From a youth at Saints, I was not the scholarly type. 

Global trade The Guyana economy grew an average of 4.5 per cent over the period 2010 to 2013. 

“Tourism is a vital sector to the economies of Member States”.

Introduction Today’s article brings to a conclusion the three-part series of columns that have been reviewing Guyana’s proposed membership of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).

Why would anyone want a smaller waist? For starters, the circumference of your waist correlates with your risk of metabolic disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Nuts are a great source of protein and other nutrients. Considered heart-healthy, almonds in particular, which are high in monounsaturated fat can help reduce cholesterol levels in the blood which can lower the risk for heart disease and stroke.

Guysuco’s diversification programme reduced Remaining areas may be divested THE Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (Guysuco) formal diver­sified crops programme has been whittled down to concentrate on three main areas in the wake of the management takeover by Booker Tate and these may be subject to divestment shortly.

(Continued from last week) Check your plants carefully to see if they have outgrown their pots.

This week a woman humiliated a popular Disc Jockey who goes by the name DJ Magnum.

Georgetown Almost Normal By Sharief Khan THE one-day protest call by the dissident trade union alliance echoed resound­ingly in the sugar and bauxite belts yester­day but sounded hollow in the capital Georgetown.

Chet Bowling, one of the directors of the crowdfunding initiative Slingshot, believes that Monday’s launch at Moray House in Georgetown can become a transformative force for entrepreneurship in Guyana.