Last Updated on Sunday, 29 October 2017, 21:47 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Postal and Telecommunications Workers Union (GP&TWU) on Sunday said it wants the Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour to invoke arbitration in a deadlocked pay dispute with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT). Union President, Harold Shepherd told the opening of the GP&TWU’s Triennial Delegates ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 October 2017, 20:57 by Denis Chabrol Tragedy marred the Rockstone Fish Festival on Sunday when a 13 year old girl drowned and an unidentified man who attempted to rescue her is feared dead, relatives said. Dead is Kimeanda Prince of Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara and a second form student of Houston Secondary School. She was celebrating ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 October 2017, 19:50 by Denis Chabrol The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Sunday  endorsed President David Granger’s appointment of Retired Justice James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, but made it clear it would break away from the coalition if there are electoral irregularities. “WPA publicly commits to the position that, if elections ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 October 2017, 16:28 by Denis Chabrol The Foreign Ministers of Guyana and Venezuela are in New York to hold two days of talks that have been organised by the United Nations to discuss the decades-old controversy over the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award that settled the boundary between the two neigbouring South American countries. The Ministry ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 October 2017, 15:49 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin has called on Guyana’s private sector to stop expressing disappointment about political instability and instead portray themselves as a neutral organisation, almost immediately after the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) Friday night called for political will in improving the agriculture sector. Addressing the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 October 2017, 14:48 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) intends to ask government to help finance the construction of a massive plant to process agricultural produce for local and foreign markets, that organisation’s First Vice President, Ramsey Ali said. He told Demerara Waves Online News that the idea would be presented ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 October 2017, 0:21 by Denis Chabrol Several African Guyanese organisations on Friday lashed out at the East Indian-dominated People’s Progressive Party for submitting 18 mostly East Indian nominees for the post of Guyana Elections Commission in a bid to force President David Granger to select one of them. “The recent Constitutional appointment by His Excellency ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 October 2017, 0:59 by Denis Chabrol A Trinidadian chemical engineer, who arrived in Guyana Friday morning for a job interview but was allegedly kidnapped, was hours later rescued and two persons arrested, Guyanese police said. Investigators identified him as Mr. Sawak Maraj, 33, of lot 131 Sandyways Fairways Marabal ,Trinidad. “Diligent investigations, buttress by an efficient ...

Last Updated on Friday, 27 October 2017, 18:05 by Denis Chabrol The United States (US) is the latest Western Nation to have issued a call for Guyana’s High Court to swiftly settle the ongoing controversy over the appointment of Retired Justice James Patterson as the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). “While we urge everyone to engage in democratic ...

Last Updated on Friday, 27 October 2017, 17:42 by Denis Chabrol University of Guyana (UG) Vice Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith said lecturers would first have to submit all outstanding grades as part of a new performance-driven criteria before they could receive salary increases for 2017, but President of the Workers Union (UGWU), Bruce Haynes said his union would have none ...