Last Updated on Thursday, 8 February 2024, 9:53 by Denis Chabrol Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that the designation of the highest military appointment, Chief-of-Staff, would be changed to Chief of Defence. Addressing the opening of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) 2024 Annual Officers’ Conference, he said the change is in keeping with what obtains ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 February 2024, 7:48 by Denis Chabrol by Retired Read Admiral  Gary Best, LLB; LEC; PhD. So much chatter in the budget about taking care of the Guyanese family, yet it challenges the protection of the earned oil revenues. It is irrefutable that independent management of Natural Resource Funds (NRFs) is the best practice. Therefore, the ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 February 2024, 7:34 by Denis Chabrol Venezuela has reacted sharply to ExxonMobil’s plans to drill  exploration wells offshore the Essequibo Region, but records show that this is not the first time that the company has done so. ExxonMobil had drilled Ranger, Tarpon and Tanager wells that are west of the Essequibo River with no response ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 22:59 by Denis Chabrol The now three-day old teachers’ strike called by the Guyana Teachers’ Union is “political” as the educators are responding to political decisions by the government for refusing to address their demand for increased salaries and allowances, Executive Member of the People’s National Congress Reform, Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 16:52 by Denis Chabrol By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Economics Dr. Gary Best is the new intellectual voice of the languishing APNU-AFC. This is not good, because this same Dr. Best, to the best of my knowledge, has never published a refereed paper on economic development, and certainly not on macro-economics. If he ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 9:49 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Tuesday said it would be collecting union dues through Mobile Money Guyana (MMG), hours after the Ministry of Education notified that it would stop collecting union dues on behalf of that bargaining agent. “You take away the dues, MMG will work,” GTU President, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 8:30 by Denis Chabrol by Retired Read Admiral  Gary Best, LLB; LEC; PhD. According to VP Jagdeo, “richer people can afford private health care and private education.” He was also excited to tell the Guyanese family that “…the services that are now produced in the private sector that you have to pay for, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 8:25 by Denis Chabrol As a teachers strike entered its third day on Wednesday, the Guyana Teachers’ Union and the Ministry of Education were comparing salaries for lowest paid teachers. While the Education Ministry and several government parliamentarians posted on their Social Media pages a list of positions and their salary increases from ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 February 2024, 23:14 by Denis Chabrol The Ministry of Labour  said it was investigating a fatal accident which occurred at approximately 7:38 AM Tuesday morning, at the John Fernandes Limited Port Facility on Water Street, Georgetown. The Labour Department said 64-year-old Trevor Jones, a stevedore foreman of Mandela Avenue, East Ruimveldt, was walking behind a ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 February 2024, 23:05 by Denis Chabrol Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Tuesday ruled that Mr Clifton Hicken’s tenure as acting Police Commissioner was properly extended after he reached retirement age of 55 years. “The framers of the Constitution envisioned that if there is not a substantive Commissioner of Police, that the statutory provisions that are ...