Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 February 2024, 19:05 by Denis Chabrol by Retired Read Admiral  Gary Best, LLB; LEC; PhD. The Jagdeo 2024 budget is a failure! A failure in people development – a fundamental obligation of any government, a failure in preserving the human dignity of the Guyanese family, a failure in human care. Just look at the abject ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 February 2024, 15:58 by Denis Chabrol The People’s National Congress Reform-led parliamentary coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) as well as the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Tuesday came out in solidarity with striking teachers after the Ministry of Education decided to stop deducting union dues from teachers’ salaries because of ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 February 2024, 15:17 by Denis Chabrol ExxonMobil plans to explore for oil offshore the Essequibo Region where Venezuelan gunboats had six years ago chased seismic research vessels in oil concessions that had been granted by Guyana, President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge said Tuesday. “The Liza field, the last time I looked, takes you pretty ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 February 2024, 9:33 by Denis Chabrol Deeming the now two-day old teachers’ strike “unlawful”, the Ministry of Education has officially informed the Guyana Teachers’ Union that it would stop deducting union dues from teachers’ salaries. After detailing its views that the “unlawful and politicised” strike was exacerbated by a barrage of threats to teachers who ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 February 2024, 6:34 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall I support the teachers in their strike action.  Fully, as in being as one with them in their grievances.  It is one unpalatable thing to be the victim of neglect.  It is quite another to be insulted by being denied what is fair and overdue, what ...

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 ...