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President Irfaan Ali has warned that Guyana is facing intense cyber-security threats and has charged the University of Guyana, the Guyana Defense Force and its international partner—the William J. Perry Centre, to assist the country in shutting down those threats. Addressing a ceremony at the University of Guyana today, where the University received the 2023 […]
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 […]
By Svetlana Marshall Breaking her silence on the ongoing dispute between the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) over a pay package period for teachers, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand today questioned whether it would be “reasonable” to offer salary increases to teachers for the time spent at home during the COVID-19 […]
Police investigators have rushed in to the interior location of Karrau in Region 7 to probe the shooting death of Police Sergeant Alex Vaughn. Vaughn was part of a Police search party on the hunt for prison escapee and double murder suspect, Akeem Wong. While reports of the shooting death of the Police Sergeant are […]
The Police are on high alert in a number of Region Seven communities where they suspect prison escapee and double murder suspect, Akeem Wong, may be hiding out. Wong was last spotted in the Saxacalli area, where he attacked and chopped a 75-year-old woman and her 49-year-old son to death at their home. The double […]
There continues to be an influx of migrants from Venezuela into Guyana, and the Government is examining additional ways to accommodate them and to address the growing number of migrants here. On Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hugh Todd convened the first meeting for the year of the Multi-agency Coordinating Committee to address the influx […]
The second annual Women in Law Enforcement Summit got underway at the Police Officers’ Mess on Monday under the theme “Inspiring Inclusion, Advancing Women in Law Enforcement”. The forum is examining the role that women play as leaders to maintain safe communities, while shining a spotlight on the challenges faced by women in law enforcement. […]
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 […]
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