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by Svetlana Marshall The hearing in the case brought against the Government by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) over the alleged failure to engage in Collective Bargaining on financial matters, commenced today with the GTU’s Vice President, Julian Cambridge, maintaining that financial matters as proposed by the Union were not discussed in the statutory meetings […]
Guyana appeared today for the third consecutive day before the UN Human Rights Committee and one of the issues raised was the Government’s perceived control over state media and influence over some privately owned media. American Human Rights Advocate, Laurence Helfer who sat on the Committee, said the Committee was concerned about reports of the […]
President Irfaan Ali has rushed to the defence of his Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo, in wake of questions from the United Nations Human Rights Committee about the absence of an investigation into corruption allegations that were leveled against the Vice President. The President is accusing “Opposition operatives” of furnishing the UN Human Rights body of […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), has ruled that former New Building Society (NBS) Chief Executive Officer, Maurice Arjoon is entitled to his full pension from the institution, bringing an end a decade-long Court battle. In August 2007, Arjoon was terminated from the company on the grounds of serious misconduct. In dismissing Arjoon, NBS at […]
The Joint Ministerial Committee of Suriname and Guyana met on Tuesday in Paramaribo to further work out the financing modalities for the construction of the Corentyne River bridge. The meeting was held as part of the ongoing process to pursue the Bridge across the Corentyne River, which will easily connect Suriname and Guyana. The process […]
Two Venezuelan nationals and a Guyanese man were charged and remanded today over the murder of Chinese Supermarket owner, Lisong Yang. Yang was murdered in his Eteringbang Landing supermarket on the 14th March during a robbery. Two of the accused were arrested at the scene of the robbery and murder, while the third was arrested […]
A 19-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy have been arrested by the Police for the Saturday night robbery of a 15-year-old girl as she entered her yard at Bel Air village. The entire incident was caught on surveillance camera. The 19-year-old suspect has been identified as Neil Lynch of Curtis Street, Albouystown. The name of […]
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 […]
Minister of Governance Gail Teixeira, today said that Government has taken steps and is making efforts to weed out corrupt Police officers, and those officers who violate the rights of citizens, from the Guyana Police Force. During Guyana’s appearance before the United Nations Human Rights Committee this morning for its periodic report for a second […]
Appearing before the UN Human Rights Committee again today, Minister of Governance, Gail Teixeira responded to questions surrounding allegations of corruption in the signing of the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement between the Exxon Mobil company and the Government that was in place at that time. She was asked by one of the UN Human Rights […]
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