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The Guyana Public Service Union has rejected the Government’s announced salary increases for public servants and is not pleased that the APNU+AFC administration may be doing like its predecessor and imposing salary increases. GPSU First Vice President, Dawn Gardner, today told News Source that the announcement by the Government of salary increases between 0.5% and […]
The Clerk of the National Assembly has announced that the date for the hearing of the Opposition’s “No confidence motion” against the Government, will have to be determined by the Government itself and not the speaker of the National Assembly. The Clerk’s statement is in response to several questions by the media following a demand […]
Aviation officials from all across the world are in Guyana for the 2018 Conference of the International Civil Aviation Organisation. More than 190 delegates are attending the meeting, which opened at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre this morning. The meeting is being hosted by the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority with the support of the Guyana […]
President David Granger arrived back in Guyana just before 10pm last evening, after completing the first round of treatment in Cuba for his non-hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis. The top brass of the Joint Services was at the Cheddi Jagan Airport to welcome the President. The President, who arrived wearing a surgical face mask, walked confidently off […]
The Ministry of Finance has dispatched a circular to the heads of all budget agencies informing them of the Government’s approval of wages and salary increases for public servants. According to the circular, which was seen by News Source, those public servants earning up to $100,000 per month, will get a 7% increase in their […]
The Government of Guyana, through the Foreign Affairs Ministry, today announced that Guyana has submitted its Memorial of Jurisdiction to the International Court of Justice in the case brought against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Guyana wants the Court to confirm, in a final and binding judgment, the full legal validity of the arbitral award […]
The Embassy of Guyana in Cuba has announced that President David Granger has completed his first round of chemotherapy treatment in the island and has been given the green light by his Doctors to return home to Guyana. The President has also completed a number of surgical interventions to treat his non-hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis. The […]
The United States is now solidly backing Guyana in the territorial controversy with Venezuela. Speaking at Friday’s farewell ceremony for the US Ambassador, the Deputy Chief of Missions, Terry Steers-Gonzalez, noted that previously, the US would simply support a timely resolution of the controversy. Now it wants the 1899 arbitration award respected. The Deputy Chief […]
Outgoing US Ambassador to Guyana, Perry Holloway, believes that despite the low voter turnout at Guyana’s 2018 Local Government Elections, democracy came away as the big winner. Monday’s local government elections marked the second such elections in three years after an absence of over two decades. Speaking at his farewell ceremony on Friday night, Ambassador […]
Of the 573,000 persons on the local government elections voter’s list, only 208, 534 of them turned up and cast their ballots at the polls on Monday, representing a voter turn out of just over 38%. That’s an almost 10% decline in the voter turn out rate when compared to the figures from two years […]
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