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53-year-old, Deon Aaron was today found guilty of raping a 3-year-old child, two years ago. A twelve member jury returned the guilty verdict this afternoon at the High Court after deliberating for just over two hours. The man was convicted of raping the toddler between the 1st March and the 20th October 2016 at their […]
Two weeks after reaching an agreement on increased salaries and benefits for the nation’s teachers, the Education Ministry and the Guyana Teachers Union signed off on the agreement this afternoon. As stated previously, the agreement will see teachers getting a 12% increase on their salaries for 2016 and an 8% increase for 2018. They had […]
The Alliance For Change today said it had no plans to use the Courts to challenge anything that it might have concerns about with the local government elections because that would be a tactic to question local democracy and delay the elections. AFC Region Four District Chairman, Michael Leonard, told a media conference today that […]
(DPI) Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan today said the delay in the payment of salaries for members of the joint services is not a result of unavailable finances, but rather the submission of inaccurate information. In a statement to the Department of Public Information (DPI) Minister Jordan said the Ministry of Public Security’s payroll was released […]
Some workers attached to a number of agencies attached to the Ministry of Public Security will be getting their October salaries late as the Ministry may not have catered adequately for new appointments. The Permanent Secretary at the Public Security Ministry dispatched a memorandum to the Heads of the Guyana Forensic Lab, the Guyana Prison […]
In a span of 11 years – 2002-2013 – the then Peoples’ Progressive Party (PPP) government installed 38 Interim Management Committees (IMCs) at the local government level in the absence of Local Government Elections (LGE). This was revealed by the Ministry of the Presidency’s Communications Director, Mark Archer in a social media post yesterday. Archer’s […]
The Guyana Elections Commission has reported that Justice Navindra Singh has dismissed the case brought against the Chief Elections Officer and the Returning Officer for Bloomfield /Whim, over the backers list for the Alliance For Change. The case was filed by the PPP, claiming that a number of persons were misled by the AFC into […]
The Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers Union are set to sign their agreement on the salary increases for teachers on Wednesday. The signing comes more than two weeks after the two sides announced that they have reached an agreement. News Source understands that the Minister of Education has also asked that the full […]
Students from Guyana, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize and Jamaica will benefit from a digital education initiative which is to be implemented in one hundred schools in those five countries. Last Tuesday, the Organisation of American States (OAS) signed an agreement with the Spanish-based ProFuturo Foundation, which has one of the largest digital education programmes in […]
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure today announced that the Government through a loan provided by the Government of India has entered into an agreement for the East Bank – East Coast Road Linkage Project. The project will from Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara to Ogle on the East Coast. In a statement, the […]
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