Last Updated on Friday, 9 February 2024, 14:36 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Friday rubbished claims by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo that the union has failed to submit its financial records under the law for several years to show how it has been spending millions of dollars in membership dues. GTU Vice President, Collis Nicholson said ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 February 2024, 9:15 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from Peace Corps (peacecorps.gov) by Chanel Rigby, a Peace Corps Response Volunteer who serves as a school support officer in Guyana. I am a Brooklyn girl, warmed by the Florida sunshine with Guyanese blood running through my veins. I was born in Flatbush to Guyanese parents and I ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 February 2024, 8:04 by Denis Chabrol Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo declined to respond to questions surrounding his “prolonged absence” from sittings of the National Assembly, after two opposition parliamentarians filed a court case to press for the top government parliamentarian to be removed from the House. “That’s a matter for the Speaker and we’ll respond ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 February 2024, 7:22 by Denis Chabrol A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Annette Ferguson was Thursday freed of a criminal Cybercrime charge based on a complaint by now Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier Omar Khan, according to Attorney-at-Law Lyndon Amsterdam. Senior Magistrate Leron Daly dismissed the charge that had ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 February 2024, 19:21 by Denis Chabrol The governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP) has submitted the names of its nominees to sit on the Constitutional Reform Commission, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. They are Gail Teixeira, Dr Frank Anthony, Attorney-at-Law Anil Nandlall, Kwame Mc Coy, and Pauline Sukhai. Political parties and other stakeholder organisations ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 February 2024, 19:12 by Denis Chabrol Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday signaled that government could not afford to pay teachers higher salaries now as planners needed to ensure that government’s salary bill was sustainable. “Your revenue has to sustain it in a long-term way to be sustainable and countries manage for sustainability,” he told ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 February 2024, 18:19 by Denis Chabrol Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on  Thursday said future talks with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) have a hit a major stumbling block as that bargaining agent has not submitted audited statements and financial records since the 1980. “They’ve been running down this union. This is an unaccountable union by ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 February 2024, 12:16 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall Exxon Guyana is on the move.  Westward, ho, and it is to Essequibo (“ExxonMobil to search for oil offshore Essequibo Region”, Demerara Waves, February 06, 2024).  It was Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela who started the trash talking, and the warlike bellowing.  Well, it is not who ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 February 2024, 12:14 by Denis Chabrol The opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has submitted its nominees for the Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC) which has been tasked with further reforming Guyana’s constitution, Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton said. They are  Vincent Alexander, Sherwood Lowe, Ganesh Mahipaul and Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes. “We ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 February 2024, 10:33 by Denis Chabrol Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that there would be unspecified changes in the way the operations of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) in keeping with a greater focus on technology, assets and partnerships with foreign partners. “There will be, based on our assessment, ...