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High Court Judge, Sandil Kissoon, today gave the Government 24hrs to produce records of the discussions with the Guyana Teachers’ Union on the issue of collective bargaining. The Judge made the order today after listening to arguments from the GTU’s Attorney Darren Wade and from the Attorney General Anil Nandlall on the GTU’s most recent […]
By Svetlana Marshall The President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Dr. Mark Lyte, is warning the Government that there will be a resumption of the nationwide industrial action by teachers, if it fails to return to the negotiation table to discuss salary increases for teachers for the period 2019-2023 as part of a proposed […]
Maintaining that the 2024 Budget does not have the fiscal space to facilitate a retroactive payment of salary increases to teachers for the years 2019 to 2023, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo today said other sectors would make similar demands, should the Government heed to the demands of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU). The Guyana Teachers’ […]
Over 15,000 Grade Six students from across the country are sitting their second round of mock exams in preparation for the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations, which will be administered in May. Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand explained that the mock exams are set, managed and run by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), and […]
The Ministry of Education has launched its new Primary textbook Series “Mathematics Made Easy,” and “Social Studies: Guyanese in the World”. The launching took place at the Round House in Kingston. The textbooks were designed using culturally relevant and modern materials that are aligned with the Education Ministry’s new Primary curriculum for both Mathematics and […]
The umbrella trade union body, the Guyana Trades Union Congress, today accused the Ministry of Education and the Government of entering the recent talks with the Guyana Teachers Union in a high-handed and disrespectful way. The Guyana Trades Union Congress said it will continue to stand with the teachers and all those who were affected […]
President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Dr. Mark Lyte, has announced that the Union will be heading back to the High Court in wake of a breakdown of talks with the Education Ministry following the Court appointed mediation process that ended the strike by teachers. The GTU is accusing the Ministry of Education of […]
Hours after talks between the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union broke down today after the two sides could not agree on the period of salary increases to be examined, the Education Ministry is sticking to its position that negotiations on salary matters would have to be from this year and onwards. The […]
A special meeting of CARICOM and its international partners along with Haitian stakeholders on the situation in Haiti, ended early this morning in Jamaica with the resignation of Haitian Prime Minister, Dr. Ariel Henry. Henry’s resignation paves the way for the setting up of a transitional Presidential Council that will oversee the affairs of the […]
Hours after the Guyana Teachers’ Union stated that its meeting with the Ministry of Education on Thursday ended with an agreement that the salary negotiations will begin with the 2019 to 2023 period, the Education Ministry has stated that there has been no such agreement. In a statement last evening, the Ministry of Education denied […]
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