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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 […]
President Irfaan Ali has issued a warning to those contractors who have been given multi-million dollar pump station contracts and continue to face delays int he completion of their work. The President wants them to know that they will face penalties. The Opposition has been flagging a number of Government pump station projects that are […]
Vice President, and General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Bharrat Jagdeo, in a rallying call, is urging his supporters and the rest of the country not to be misled by the political rhetoric of the Opposition. Addressing his party supporters at a memorial rally for late President Cheddi Jagan, Mr. Jagdeo was in […]
Republic Bank Guyana has expanded its services to the Williamsburg, Berbice community with the opening of a new branch on Saturday. The new facility replaces the Rose Hall branch, and represents an investment of $1.2 Billion. According to the Chairman of Republic Bank, Nigel Baptiste, the bank will continue to make investments in Guyana as […]
The minutes for the first round of negotiations between the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) have confirmed that the two sides have agreed to discuss salary increases for the period 2019-2023. Hours after the President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union, Mark Lyte told reporters that Thursday’s meeting ended with an agreement […]
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