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Agro-entrepreneurs riding setbacks

Agribusiness farmers who should have received funding from the Ministry of Agriculture have lost confidence after more than ten months of waiting for Cabinet approval of the bill...

BG View from the Editor

If they can’t take the heat…

Last week, I cited some ideas that have been repeated so often that only the most discerning are able to shift sense from nonsense...

Mixed Assets

Naturalists’ Club cautions widespread industrialisation

Following is an extract from the T&T Field Naturalists’ Club response to the EIA for the industrial estate at Chatham...

News

Financial sector tops salary scale

Oil and gas may rake in millions to fill companies coffers but the salaries paid to employees fall just short of the top...

Government to keep Cepep…may consider cuts in URP

The Government will not reduce its allocations to the Community Environment Protection and Enhancement Programme (Cepep) in the 2006/2007 Budget but may consider cuts in URP...

TTMA seeks stronger SMEs

As part of its budget contribution, the Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) has asked the Government to assist those small companies which may find it difficult to be compliant with the Occupational Safety and Health Act (Osha)...

Feature

‘Houses to please people’

During an interview with Business Guardian’s Sherwin Long on Tuesday afternoon at his George Street, Port-of-Spain office, Housing Minister Dr Keith Rowley was at his outspoken and incendiary best...

Georgetown a far cry from the past

In the midst of several targeted executions involving city businessmen, ongoing investigations into two brazen daytime bank robberies, the Kaieteur News massacre and a spate of routinely executed robberies, Guyanese businesspeople can be excused for being more than a little anxious about the state of affairs in the troubled mainland republic...

These women...

Know their market

When Brenda Bayley did her first project in market research it was nothing short of horrifying. “My very first project was to travel to the Essequibo River, a region in Guyana, to speak to Amerindians,” she said in an interview on August 4...

Clean living - Young men find their niche

The five wore photo badges attached to their blue coveralls. The back of their slip-on uniforms state what their business is all about...

New UWI product to help housing

Richard Clarke, structural engineer in the UWI’s department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, believes its time for a change in the construction sector....

Commentary and Analysis

Risk an age-old phenomenon

The above quote is approximately 2,000 years old, but whoever said it knew something about risk, return and diversification. In fact, he may have been the first advocate of asset allocation...

Chickenomics

CMMB’s guide to fast food and foreign exchange

If you’re a reader of the Economist you will no doubt have stumbled across their much loved Big Mac index. If not, check it out in the May 27 weekly edition...

Where do we go from here?

There are two main points to this article, one addressed to the individual investor and the other to the market regulators and the fiscal authorities...

The cost of terrorism

A week after a dramatic terror plot for British airports was revealed by security forces, major disruption continued and the travel and airline industries began counting the costs of the delays and cancellations...

Finding the right hire

Finding the right hire for a job is a source of concern for CEOs, line managers and human resource professionals...

Crime a management problem too

Under the existing Constitution and the Police Service Act, the responsibility for the management of the Police Service has been relegated to a combination of the Commissioner of Police, the Police Service Commission and the Minister of National Security...

 

 

 

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