Alliance For Change (AFC) executive member and opposition parliamentarian David Patterson on Tuesday asked the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to investigate whether the award of a GY$865,543,500 contract to construct a pump station at Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara was above board. “I write seeking an investigation into the award of this contract on the basis that the Contractor was ...

October 3, 2023 In 1897, Venezuela and Great Britain concluded an agreement- the Treaty of Washington which they agreed to submit the dispute regarding the location of their land boundary to binding arbitration before a tribunal of eminent jurists including the heads of the judiciary of the United States and Great Britain. The parties – Britain and Venezuela – agreed in ...

An executive member of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has said that that bargaining agent did not recognise a Ministry of Education invitation attend President Irfaan Ali’s meeting with teachers. “Please don’t disrespect us teachers by never formally even inviting GTU to your consultation that seeks to bypass an elected and constituted body,” GTU General Council representative for Bartica, Sergio ...

A number of teachers on Monday told President Irfaan Ali that they prefer increased allowances rather than a salary hike, sparking off a criticism by a senior trade unionist. Headmistress for Vreed-en-Hoop Primary School, Joan Bhagwandass echoed the views of several other teachers in justifying the need for allowances rather than increased salaries which are taxed. “Whenever I hear a ...

by Sir Shridath Ramphal 124 years ago, on an autumn morning in Paris, some of the world’s most distinguished jurists listened to a description of the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela. It was the Award of the Arbitral Tribunal set up under the Treaty of Washington to find a ‘full, perfect and final settlement’ of the dispute over the ...

by GHK Lall The PNC went to Washington, DC, recently.  It should have stayed put, and enjoyed the incinerating heat of Guyana.  The PNC team was not James Stewart’s Mr. Smith goes to Washington, but a damp squib that fizzled out.   What the PNC team did in Washington was to roast itself alive, and over a slow, public fire ...

By Dr. Randolph Persaud, Professor Emeritus The CGID event in Washington DC failed to achieve even their most minimal objectives. They expected the Americans to issue a statement condemning the PPPC administration, but none came. No one was interested. What is worse, is that only days before the September 27-28 event, it was reported that the Congressional Black Caucus, “had ...

Ten months into the year, City Hall is this Thursday slated to present its GY$2.6 billion budget for 2023 budget with a deficit of GY$77.2 million, but there is no clear plan for how the Council would account for monies already spent for the year. The total bill for salaries, wages and allowances totals GY$1,340,648,272. According to figures seen by ...

Agents of Spain’s National Police and Tax Agency Customs Surveillance have seized a ton of cocaine in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Verde on a fishing boat bound for Spain in an operation that has resulted in the arrest of the six crew members of the vessel. ship. Those arrested are four Guyanese and two Albanians. The ...

A bush fire, possibly caused by the extremely dry and hot weather, was up to Sunday night raging at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, but at least one resident said fire tenders could not reach the blaze because of the poor condition of the sand road. “They called the fire service who told them they can’t do anything because their vehicles would ...