STARR Computer honored with 2016 Business of the Year Award

Georgetown: STARR Computer, the largest computer company in Guyana with over two decades of service recently was awarded the 2016 Business of the Year Award (Small to Medium) by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) at its 127th Annual Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony. This year’s gala took place at the Guyana Marriott Hotel. 

The technology giant boasts a well-trained workforce that has benefited from many training workshops and seminars by some of the 18 international brands and manufacturers it represents. These international manufacturers includes: Lenovo, Samsung, HP, Q-See and Intel amongst others.

STARR Computer Inc. located at 59 Brickdam, Stabroek, Georgetown had already taken the initiative of powering itself from Renewable Energy using a hybrid system consisting of Wind and Sun application.

The company also produces its own brand of computer and maintenance support to meet the local demands in Guyana. It also offers Security and Surveillance solutions.

In an effort to continue being abreast with technologies, STARR continues to offer free daily workshops and weekly public seminars on new solutions to its customers, friends, and, citizens of Guyana.

Other awardees include: The Ministry of Public Telecommunications, Sterling Products Limited, Metro Office & Computer Supplies, New GPC Inc. and Gafsons Industries Limited. Giving the feature remarks at the event was Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman who urged Guyanese to stop complaining about the budget and “get busy”. “So what are we to do, complain about the VAT on water and electricity and do nothing else, or complain and get busy preparing? The Government of Guyana would prefer that we all lived in a country where there are no complaints but we know that this can never be. However, we invite you to get busy,” he said.

Trotman suggested that criticisms of the GYD$250 billion fiscal package by the private sector and opposition are senseless because it is evident that there has been a slump in commodity prices and Guyana’s sugar industry continues to perform poorly.

“The economy felt the drag of dismal output performances in sugar, rice, forestry, and construction, including housing,” Finance Minister, Winston Jordan has said.

“We don’t have to be economists with fancy titles to know this. This is an incontrovertible fact that we must accept in government, in opposition, in the private sector, in civil society and within the general citizenry. We can choose to find a scapegoat and to point fingers or we can look beyond the horizon to what is coming,” he told the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s dinner and awards ceremony held recently at the Marriott Hotel.