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Chief Labour Officer, Dhaneshwar Deonarine, has written to the Guyana Teachers’ Union and the Ministry of Education inviting both sides to Conciliation talks, as teachers are continuing their resumed strike action. General Secretary of the GTU, Coretta McDonald, informed teachers late yesterday that following the virtual meeting between GTU Executives and teachers about their ongoing […]
Teachers across the country resumed strike action today, and the President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Mark Lyte reported this afternoon that more than 60% of the nation’s teachers stayed away from their jobs. The GTU said its members made a decision to resume strike action over the Government’s continued failure to engage the […]
With the Government holding firm to its position that it will only negotiate salaries for teachers from this year moving forward and not the 2019-to 2023 period, the Guyana Teachers’ Union has announced that a decision has been taken for teachers to resume their strike action. At a press conference today, GTU officials said the […]
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 […]
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