Last Updated on Monday, 5 February 2024, 22:23 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Monday announced that a sugar refinery would be built at the Enmore Estate, East Coast Demerara which was closed in 2018. Addressing the Private Sector Commission’s (PSC) annual corporate dinner, he said an unnamed investor was about to decide on the construction of the refinery. ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 February 2024, 22:25 by Denis Chabrol The Ministry of Education on Monday said teachers, who participate in an illegal strike, would lose pay, but declined to provide a figure on the number of educators who responded to the Guyana Teachers’ Union’s (GTU) call for industrial action to force government to the bargaining table for increased ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 February 2024, 19:05 by Denis Chabrol By Retired Rear Admiral, Gary Best; LLB; LEC; PhD.  In Part 1, I pointed out that it is Jagdeo’s signature that appears on the Bank of Guyana notes that we spend. I concluded therefrom that he is really the Minister of Finance. One thing is for sure, the 2024 ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 February 2024, 14:09 by Denis Chabrol Even as the Guyana Teachers’ Union  (GTU) vowed that the strike action would continue if the Ministry of Education does not agree to come to the table to negotiate for increased salaries and allowances, both sides gave differing accounts of the industrial action that began Monday. GTU General Secretary, ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 February 2024, 9:33 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Monday dismissed claims by the Guyana Police Force that teachers were being threatened to participate in a strike. “I am not aware of any threats issued by GTU to teachers,” GTU President Dr Mark Lyte told Demerara Waves Online News. Police said that ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 February 2024, 9:08 by Denis Chabrol A lone gunman Sunday night attacked and robbed a taxi driver of GY$6 million worth of jewellery and a cell phone as he was climbing the steps to his residence at 190 West Indian Housing Scheme, Bartica, police said. The victim has been identified as 43-year old Thakoor ‘Ricky’ ...