Last Updated on Sunday, 11 July 2021, 20:53 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has added 20 more call centre agents, as part of its overall efforts to improve the company’s response to customers’ queries and reports. The new agents graduated last Friday, and the company said the move aims to make it “a customer centric ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 July 2021, 15:23 by Denis Chabrol Amid a steep rise in the cost of living, the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has again requested a meeting to begin wage and salary negotiations for 2020-2021. “It should be noted that there is an astronomically increase in the cost of living and the last salary increase was ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 July 2021, 14:53 by Denis Chabrol Police Commissioner, Nigel Hoppie on Sunday issued an instruction presumably to the public relations team  after the media posed questions about the alleged disappearance of part of GYD$3 million reward for information concerning the killing of teenage cousins Joel and Isaiah Henry. At 10:11 AM Sunday, reporter Travis Chase ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 July 2021, 16:04 by Denis Chabrol Prominent Caribbean Law Professor, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine on Thursday said COVID-19 vaccination could be made compulsory without violating human rights, constitution and the law. “It’s a fairly easy sell for me to accept that mandatory vaccination is constitutionally legitimate and we have good precedent for it since we already ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 July 2021, 11:18 by Denis Chabrol Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield is asking the High Court to block Elections Commissioners Sase Gunraj and Bibi Shadick from participating in hearing a motion for his immediate dismissal on the grounds that he needs a fair hearing. The pro-People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Election Commissioners have also filed motions ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 July 2021, 22:22 by Denis Chabrol Guyanese police on Thursday said they have arrested three men suspected of being involved in burning down the Linden office of the Guyana Elections Commission  (GECOM) last year, and they are looking for a man believed to be the mastermind. “Police investigators are also pursuing an official in Linden ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 July 2021, 12:58 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali has welcomed the United States’ rejoining of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent in another nine years. Dr. Ali was quoted by government’s  Department of Public Information as welcoming the US’s decision earlier this year ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 7:06 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from the BBC Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse has been killed in an attack on his home in the nation’s capital, according to the country’s interim prime minister. Claude Joseph said the president’s residence in Port-au-Prince was stormed by unidentified armed men at 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT). The ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 23:28 by Denis Chabrol The 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Tuesday justified the imposition of visa restrictions, weeks after Guyana reinstated that requirements for Haitians coming here due to concerns about people smuggling to neighbouring countries. Speaking at a news conference at the end of a summit of regional leaders, CARICOM Chairman- Antigua ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 15:10 by Denis Chabrol The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Retired Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Slowe on Monday afternoon said he did not receive a reply from Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie concerning the issuance of  a special promotions order for more than 130 officers. Mr. Slowe said now that Mr. Hoppie ...