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With a growing rift within the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) over the acceptance of the Government’s 10% salary increase offer and the inking of a 3-year agreement, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo is again accusing the General Secretary of the GTU, Coretta McDonald of playing politics on behalf of the Opposition APNU+AFC. McDonald and a number […]
With the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring Mpox as a Public Health Emergency, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) today said there is need for heightened awareness in the region and a unified and proactive approach. Mpox is a zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus that can spread through direct contact with infected individuals, animals, or contaminated […]
The Amerindian People’s Association has taken aim at several statements made by President Irfaan Ali at the National Toshaos’ Conference, accusing the President of distorting the history of the Indigenous people in Guyana. The APA wants to know whether the President sought to deliberately mislead Indigenous Leaders with his statements. The organisation took issue with […]
Attorney General Anil Nandlall is maintaining that the Mocha squatters who were removed from land near the new 4-lane highway, were removed for the construction of the highway and nothing else. During his “Issues in the News’ television programme, Mr. Nandlall sought to rubbish claims by the Opposition that the land that the squatters once […]
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) today reiterated that there is no shortage of its Demerara Gold packaged sugar, despite the product not being on shelves in supermarkets across the country for a number of weeks. In a statement today, GuySuco said the packaged sugar is available and can be purchased from its Albion and Blairmont […]
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday defended his Government’s spending of money from the oil fund and told indigenous leaders that the Hinterland community is already benefiting from the oil money. Guyana has been earning hundreds of millions of dollars from the oil sector, which began production in 2019. In many communities, citizens complain that […]
Moments after the signing of an agreement between the Guyana Teachers’ Union and the Government, President Irfaan Ali went live on Facebook, to announce that he was pleased with the agreement. In his video statement, the President said teachers should look at the entire package being offered to them, and not just the salary increases. […]
Opposition Member of Parliament and Leader of the Guyana Action Party, Vincent Henry has complained that he was escorted by Police from the National Toshaos’ Conference forum at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on Tuesday. Henry, who is an Indigenous Leader and sits on the Parliamentary Natural Resources Committee, said that he was asked to […]
With some senior union officials claiming “trickery”, the President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union went ahead this morning and signed a three-year agreement with the Government on behalf of the union and the teachers it represents. The President said he had the support of the majority of the General Council of the GTU, who agreed […]
Almost five years after he allegedly hit down a 67-year-old man in Queens, New York, killing him on the spot and fleeing the scene, businessman turned race car driver, Ravindra Dharamjit, was recently arrested in Guyana and handed over to the US authorities. Dharamjit had reportedly been hiding out in Guyana since 2019 and blended […]
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