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-by Svetlana Marshall- The descendants of a former British slavery plantation owner have traveled to Guyana, offering an apology for slavery and indentureship. Charles Gladstone , who is a descendant of slave plantation owner John Gladstone, apologized to the people of Guyana for the enslavement of their African ancestors, who for centuries, endured harsh and […]
With an estimated 57,000 housing applications on file, President Irfaan Ali last evening said that significant investment is needed to reduce the back-log and bring the system up-to date, even as he acknowledged that applications are being received daily. Speaking at the opening of the International Building Expo, President Ali said the plan is to […]
While the government has indicated that it is on track to keep its promise of providing 50,000 new house lots in five years, it is now faced with the challenge of thousands of new applications being added to the system. During his address at the opening of the International Building Expo on Thursday, Minister of […]
The traditional top schools have once again dominated this year’s CXC examinations at both the CSEC and CAPE levels. According to the Ministry of Education, 65% of the students who wrote the CSEC exams gained Grade 1 to 3 passes. This year’s top performing student hails from the Anna Regina Secondary School. He is Alex […]
Mathematics continues to be a sore subject for Guyanese students writing the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations. Only 34% of students who wrote the Mathematics examinations managed to gain Grade 1 to 3 passes. The Ministry of Education released the CXC results today, and according to the Chief Education Officer, Saddam Hussein, while there were […]
President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU), Seepaul Narine has indicated that while GAWU with the help of the Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) of Trinidad and Tobago, has been able to penetrate the oil and gas industry locally, a large number of workers remain unrepresented. On the sidelines of the ongoing […]
President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union, (GAWU) Seepaul Narine has confirmed to News Source that the week-long protest which gripped the sugar-belt in Berbice is being called off following an agreement to not transfer workers from the Albion and Blairmont estates back to the Rose Hall estate. The sugar workers who were […]
General Secretary of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF), Sue Longley has flagged the increasing use of contract workers in Guyana, even as she lobbied those in the budding Oil and Gas Sector to become unionized. Longley – the first female General Secretary of the IUF […]
-by Svetlana Marshall- Declaring that the Government will not walk away from sugar, President Irfaan Ali declared today that his Administration is prepared to bring in experts from Guatemala and India to help with the management of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo). “We are talking with India, with Guatemala to find the technical support service […]
The Mahdia School Dorm Fire Commission of Inquiry will travel to Mahdia, and other neighbouring villages on Wednesday to conduct a familiarization visit. In a press briefing today at the COI Secretariat, Secretary to the Commission Javed Shaddick, explained that the visit is not intended to facilitate public hearings, but to have an assessment of […]
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