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Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said High Court Judge, Sandil Kissoon was “presumptuous” to say in his recent decision in favour of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) that President Irfaan Ali’s meeting with teachers did not amount to collective bargaining. “In this case, he wasn’t doing anything illegal for the court to… but it’s presumptuousness to criticise the President, ...

A security guard and a businessman, who are both from Bartica, who are implicated in the alleged theft of solar panels from the Two Miles Primary School, have been granted bail, the Guyana Police Force said Thursday. Security guard, 26-year-old Shawn Caesar of Two and a Half Miles, Bartica, Potaro Road, Essequibo was charged with simple larceny. When the charge ...

The University of Guyana’s (UG) Faculty of Engineering and Technology has received its first international accreditation for the Associate of Science in Petroleum Engineering and the Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the London-based International Energy Institute, UG said Sunday. UG hosted the five-man accreditation evaluation visit and team in February when the favourable verbal report was given ahead ...

Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton on Saturday disagreed with the Guyana government’s intention to appeal a High Court decision that deemed the recent 29-day strike by teachers “lawful and legitimate” because the administration had rebuffed every effort by the union to negotiate increased salaries. “We note that the government has announced its intention to appeal the High Court’s ruling “to the ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is ready to assist a broad cross section of Guyanese understand the various aspects of Intellectual Property (IP) protection, amid observations that local IP laws are outdated. “Unfortunately, like everything else, laws tend to lag at issues and one of the areas in which the law is lagging is in terms of ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government was willing to “bring in” doctors to address a backlog of cases in the public health sector if those already in the system would be unable to do so. “If we have a backlog in a specific area, which are these areas and which areas will require us to bring in specialised ...

Minister of Public Works II, Deodat Indar on Tuesday said only nine of the 17 reconditioned containerised electricity generation sets that were bought for US$27 million were working but strenuous efforts were being made by Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) to connect more units to the grid by weekend. “By Saturday, we are told by GPL, an additional six ...

The Ministry of Education’s Chief Education Officer, Saddam Hussain on Wednesday told a High Court hearing that there could no longer be debunching of teachers’ salaries. He explained that with graduate teachers now earning the maximum in the salary scale, debunching was no longer on the Education Ministry’s agenda, though that remained a demand by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU). ...

Vice President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Julian Cambridge on Wednesday admitted that financial matters were discussed with the government. Representing the government, lawyer Dharshan Ramdhani, at the outset, established that the previous multi-year agreement between the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and the government remains in force until a new agreement is reached. GTU Vice President Julian Cambridge, under ...

High Court Judge, Sandil Kissoon on Tuesday ordered the Ministry of Education’s Chief Executive Officer, Saddam Hussain to produce proof that financial matters had been discussed with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) between 2019 and February 5, 2024. Attorney General Anil Nandlall undertook to provide the documents to the GTU’s lawyer, Darren Wade and lawyer for the Guyana Trades Union ...