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The University of Guyana (UG) today received the prestigious 2023 Perry Center Award for Excellence in Security and Defense Education for Hemispheric Defense Studies. The Perry Award for Excellence in Security and Defense Education is given to individuals or institutions in recognition of their significant contributions in the field of security and defense education in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Government of Guyana in partnership with the Canada-CARICOM Expert Deployment Mechanism (CCEDM) today launched a Restorative Justice Practitioners Training Programme in Georgetown, as part of the country’s quest to modernize the justice system, and reduce the number of persons before the Courts. At the opening ceremony this morning, Attorney General, Anil Nandlall explained that […]
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