Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 16:03 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The Ministry of Social Protection has embarked on bringing media entities in line with labour laws. The scope of work pertaining to media operations is usually characterized by long hours, tremendous research and sometimes dangerous situations. But this is hardly taken into consideration and addressed within the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 17 August 2015, 11:32 by GxMedia University of Guyana (UG) students will benefit from new classrooms, sports facilities and upgraded science and technology facilities once the 2015/2016 academic-year commences, says UG Vice Chancellor (VC) Jacob Opadeyi. Among these developments are enhancements to the university’s Natural Sciences and Technology Faculties which are being funded by the US$10 ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 16 August 2015, 21:04 by GxMedia by Zena Henry In what seemed almost unimaginable just months ago, the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) and Central government have pledged stronger ties in restoring the city. The then Local Government Ministry had been at odds with the Council for years under the People’s Progressive Party (PPP). Now ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 16 August 2015, 20:51 by GxMedia The Indian Action (formerly Arrival) Committee (IAC) on Sunday called on the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to push for a Commission of Inquiry into claims that mostly East Indians are being fired, in the wake of last week’s firing of the Chirf Executive Officer of the Guyana Power and Light ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 16 August 2015, 20:35 by GxMedia Exactly one day before Bharrat Jagdeo is expected to kick off the 2015 budget debate, a non-governmental organisation on Sunday said it has lobbied House Speaker Dr. Barton Scotland to put in place water-tight code of conduct that could see the former Guyanese leader being disqualified as a parliamentarian. “We ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 16 August 2015, 18:37 by GxMedia The mother of prominent Attorney-at-Law and Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes died Sunday as a result of a road accident Saturday night, according to a party spokesman She is Christobel Hughes, said to be in her early 80s. AFC Spokesman Imran Khan said the accident occurred ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 16 August 2015, 13:49 by GxMedia Two vendors were early Sunday morning chopped and robbed as theu were about to leave their West Coast Berbice home. Police said they came under fire while responding to a report. They returned fire and arrested one of the suspects. At about 0345h. today Sunday August 16, 2015, two men armed ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 15 August 2015, 18:56 by GxMedia A group of persons seeking the truth about the bomb-blast death of renowned historian and politician, Dr. Walter Rodney o June 13, 1980 on Saturday accused the administration of President David Granger of double-standards in the quest for truth and national healing. “It is disturbing that senior spokesperson of a ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 15 August 2015, 18:34 by GxMedia Guyanese are exhibiting mixed responses to government’s decision to raise the value of school-uniform vouchers from $1,500 to $2,000. Reading highlights from the 2015 Budgetary Estimates in the National Assembly last Monday, Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, said “this will benefit more than 167,000 students at a cost of over $337 ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 15 August 2015, 18:17 by GxMedia Former Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai on Saturday said attempts by the coalition to capitalise on her receipt of a whopping GUY$2 million in dental assistance backfired because the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) still won the mainly Amerindian populated regions. “The fact that it was peddled pre-election gimmick, as ...