Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 22:24 by GxMedia Employees of the Guyana Geology and Mines (GGMC) say management’s failure to approve a pay-hike, in keeping with a terms of resumption of work following protest action last month, forced them to  recommence strike action on Tuesday, a move that management deems illegal. Meanwhile, Guyana Public Service Union  (GPSU) Industrial ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 21:30 by GxMedia The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) on Tuesday dismissed several workers, as part of the streamlining of the company’s operations, according to Chief Executive Officer, Radha Krishna Sharma. He said four of the staff members were from the Sales and Marketing Department and one was a Secretary to an ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 20:53 by GxMedia Havana, Jan 6 (EFE).- Cuban artist Tania Bruguera, who was temporarily jailed last week for organizing an open microphone event in Havana, has quit the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists, UNEAC, and returned an award bestowed upon her by the country’s ministry of culture in 2002.Bruguera told Efe on ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 12:17 by GxMedia Guyanese authorities, in collaboration with their counterparts in Suriname, have seized an estimated 120 kilogrammes of cocaine from a Cyprus-registered cargo ship that came here to collect a consignment of bauxite, Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Kurshid Sattaur said Tuesday. Officials estimate the street value of the ...