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, CT scan, ultrasound etc, … if you can get these in ...

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 2019 to 2024, the GTU opted to focus on two categories- ...

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 super reach stacker as it was reversing when the accident occurred. ...

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 applicable to a substantive Commissioner of Police would also apply to ...

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 working condition of our public servants and teachers, where their salaries ...

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 the union’s conduct. APNU+AFC said it stands firmly with teachers in ...

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 close to that (equidistant) line. We plan to drill two exploration ...

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 opted not to join the strike, the Ministry of Education Permanent ...

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 circumstances permit, what reeks of arrogance and its reckless exercise. For ...

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. “We have an investor, who is in the final stage of ...