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		<title>The rise of inequality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisRam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction This article draws heavily on a commentary in Ram &#038; McRae’s 2013 Budget Focus. One of the issues identified in the segment of the commentary dealing with inequality, a companion of poverty, is a National Minimum Wage for Guyana. Since then, the Minister of Labour announced a National Minimum Wage for the private sector [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing with money laundering and terrorism legislation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisRam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Guyana joined the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) in 2002, twelve years after it was established in May 1990. The CFATF is an associate member of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the international body established in 1989 charged with examining countries’ money laundering techniques and trends, reviewing the actions which they had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Plain Talk’ angered some top leaders of Private Sector Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisRam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week’s Plain Talk so angered some top leaders of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) that they began a buzz with email exchanges describing that programme and another on Channel 9 as constituting a “blistering attack” and “serious attempt to discredit the PSC.” It exhorted the troops, so far embarrassingly unsuccessfully, “to act.” Yet, amidst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Line: 2012 Annual reports of Caribbean Container Incorporated, Sterling Products Limited and Guyana Stockfeeds Incorporated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 04:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisRam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Publicly traded entities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean Containers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction To avoid getting caught up in a backlog of annual reports, Business Page today reviews the annual reports of three of Guyana’s public companies – Sterling Products Limited which held its annual general meeting on April 19, Caribbean Container Incorporated (CCI) which held its annual general meeting on April 30 and Guyana Stockfeeds Limited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Sundar Nauth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisRam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[GPL]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In yesterday’s online edition of your newspapers (KN, 3 May) you carried a letter subscribed by Sundar Nauth and captioned “Sanction Christopher Ram”. I wish to respond by advising Mr. Nauth that the process of sanctioning a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana can be initiated by a letter setting out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The challenge of ethical investing</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisram.net/?p=1165</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisRam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Following this column’s review of the 2012 Annual Report on the Demerara Tobacco Company Limited in which I stated that I am a small shareholder (500 shares) in the company, a colleague of mine criticised me for profiting from a company whose product is now known to be a killer. I explained to him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most of Guyana’s electricity is not generated by GPL; 80% is produced by GuySuCo and Wartsila</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 04:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisRam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that GPL’s Chairman Brassington and CEO Bharat Dindyal do not understand the difference between the income statement and electricity rates and capital expenditure and cash flows. It is equally difficult to understand why they would mistake assertion for “insinuation” even describing it as a demonstration of “gross ignorance” (‘GPL denies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only $1,000M was requested for GPL’s operations and the National Assembly approved that; the warning of a tariff increase is nothing but scare tactics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisRam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now more than ever I lose hope and faith in our politicians whose words speak louder than their action. But then I see some dishonesty, chicanery or fabrication that upsets me and makes me take up my pen. In today’s (April 23) Stabroek News Messrs Brassington and Bharat Dindyal, Chairman and CEO respectively of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious questions remain on the exploding cost of the Amaila project</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisram.net/?p=1159</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisRam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I welcome Mr. David Gopaul’s letter (&#8216;Ram is attributing additional costs to the Amaila hydro-project based on pure speculation’ SN April 18, 2013) for providing me with the opportunity to ask him to obtain and share vital information about Amaila which Guyanese have for years been seeking. Before doing so I will briefly address his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Line: Annual Report 2012 – Demerara Distillers Limited</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisram.net/?p=1156</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisRam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Publicly traded entities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demerara Distillers Limited]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction The conglomerate, Demerara Distillers Limited, which has as its flagship the world famous El Dorado rum, will be holding its annual general meeting next Friday April 26 when the directors will report on the performance and state of affairs of the parent company and its ten subsidiaries and one joint venture. One of those [...]]]></description>
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