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The Guyana Public Service Union today broadsided the Government of Guyana over the President’s recent direct meeting with a group of Headteachers and Deputy Headteachers on salary and non-salary issues, while still not meeting with the Guyana Teachers’ Union on salary negotiations. In a statement, the GPSU described the President’s actions as “provocative and unlawful” […]
The recent award of a $865M contract to construct a Pump Station at Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, has once again called into question the criteria used by National Tender Board in awarding such large contracts. Opposition Member of Parliament, David Patterson has already written to the Public Procurement Commission asking for a probe […]
Opposition Member of Parliament, David Patterson, has lashed out at the government over the current spate of power outages that have gripped the Georgetown, Berbice and Bartica areas. Patterson, who oversaw GPL as the Minister of Public Infrastructure in the APNU+AFC Government, said clear mismanagement at the level of the Ministry of Public Works and […]
The Mahdia Dorm Fire Commission of Inquiry (COI) was told today that when the deadly fire engulfed the school dorm back in May, the Mahdia Fire Station was ill-equipped to deal with a fire of the magnitude. In the witness box today, Officer in Charge of the Mahdia Fire Station, Ryan Scott maintained that even […]
A 72-year-old man from Suddie on the Essequibo Coast was remanded to prison on Monday after he was charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition without a license. The accused, George Aubrey Archer, appeared at the Charity Magistrates’ Court where the two charges were read to him. He pleaded not guilty to both charges. […]
The Government of Guyana today observed the 124th anniversary of the 1899 Arbitral Award which settled the border dispute between Venezuela and the then British Guiana. The Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said while Guyana still accepts and celebrates the Arbitral Award as stipulated by the Treaty, Venezuela, just after Guyana’s independence, […]
The Guyanese owner of the fishing vessel which was busted by the Spanish Navy with over 2000 pounds of cocaine has submitted himself to the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit in Guyana to face questioning. Four Guyanese and two Albanians were held when the Spanish authorities with assistance from the US Drug Enforcement Agency made the […]
The President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Mark Lyte, today said the headteachers and deputy headteachers who met President Irfaan Ali at State House on Monday, were “handpicked” and had no authority to make representation on behalf of the Union or the more than 7,000 teachers that elected the executive arm of the GTU. […]
With the country being faced with a shortage of teachers, the President is hoping that the more than 2000 teachers that will be added to the system after graduation later this year, will be able to cushion the effects of the shortage of teachers. Speaking to a group of headteachers and deputy headteachers on Monday […]
-by Svetlana Marshall- In a meeting with President Irfaan Ali and senior Government officials, a large group of teachers today said they would prefer an increase in their allowances over an increase in their salaries. The meeting, which went on for over two hours at State House, was done in the absence of senior officials […]
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