Posted January 27th, 2012 by admin
Chamber of Commerce to focus on three key areas
Sanjeevi Jayasuriya
The National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka will be working towards
focusing on three key areas of skills development, improving trade and
investment in the Asian Region, and promoting sustainable development.
The importance of skills development, trade and investment, sustainable
development and business excellence are even more critical to sustain
the GDP growth rate of 8% for the year 2012, the National Chamber of
Commerce of Sri Lanka President Asoka Hettigoda said at the 53rd Annual
General Meeting held last week in Colombo.
With two consecutive years...
Posted January 27th, 2012 by admin
Jim Page, 33, is the new president and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama. He said, I want to make sure the business community will have a strong voice locally with county and city governments and the boards of education, but also have a voice in Montgomery and Washington. Decisions made in Montgomery and Washington affect local businesses.
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Posted January 27th, 2012 by admin
Lets Get to Work initiative pushes for expanded MARC service, improved schedule
BALTIMORE – The Central Maryland region suffers from years of inadequate investment in transportation infrastructure – especially when compared to other major urban centers and the facts are daunting. In the past fifteen years, regions across the US including San Diego, Salt Lake City, Denver, Dallas, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Charlotte and Norfolk have all invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build out rail systems that connect people to jobs. The Baltimore region extended the light rail to Hunt Valley and BWI Airport in 1997, but has not significantly expanded its rail system since.
The...
Posted January 26th, 2012 by admin
Singer Rihanna spotted showing off her sexy butt in a thong bikini in Hawaii yesterday. Sexy,singing star Rihanna showed just how sexy she is yesterday,while vacationing in Hawaii as she sported a freaking,sexy as hell,black, thong,bikini ensemble,while fiddling around with a paddleboard in the water.
These sexy shots arent anything new for the singer,these days,as shes been spotted flaunting her hot bod all over the place these past couple weeks. She tweeted a couple of bikini workout shots the other day. Then she spotted in a smoking white bikini in Hawaii the day before yesterday.
She was also seen,running around Barbados in a bikini for the Christmas holidays....
Posted January 25th, 2012 by admin
Mike Capuano speaks to business people at a Chamber of Commerce event at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford.
Posted January 25th, 2012 by admin
“I’ve always been involved in community service,” West New York’s Commissioner Fior D’aliza Frias said, “but it wasn’t until I became aware of what was happening in the town during the recall that I started to notice there were things that just didn’t seem right.”
During last year’s surprise election defeat of former mayor Silverio “Sal” Vega, Frias started her own campaign for mayor, which she dubbed “Our only option.” At the same time, current Mayor Dr. Felix Roque was running a separate campaign. They eventually joined forces.
In West New York’s government, five commissioners are elected,...
Posted January 25th, 2012 by admin
Candidates reach out to voters
First Congressional District Democratic candidate Suzanne
Bonamici gets a tour of Pacific Stainless in St. Helens from owner
Jeff Kemp on Jan. 14. Bonamici also took questions at the Seaside
Chamber of Commerce breakfast Jan. 20.
Photo / St. Helens Chronicle
Posted January 24th, 2012 by admin
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Posted January 24th, 2012 by admin
Elm Street resident Larry Alexander said he and his neighbors have watched as heavy construction equipment has been coming in and out of the Elm Street gate in preparation for starting to build the complex and they are wary that clear cutting will begin immediately.
However, attorney John Inglesino, a special counsel hired by the Florham Park council, said he doubted any removal of trees would occur now that there is a threat of a lawsuit by the citizens group and the possibility that the federal Fish Wildlife Service might reverse a finding, although he did not specify which one.
Delaney and Alexander said the land has been considered as a nesting ground for the Indiana...
Posted January 24th, 2012 by admin
Katherine Dodds, right, serves some beer to Loveland resident Robert Rumfelt on Friday evening at the Taproom inside the Grimm Brothers Brewhouse, 623 Denver Ave. Grimm Brothers was named the top small business by members of the Loveland Chamber of Commerce.
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