The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Thursday said the High Court issued orders that for the time prevents government from cutting the salaries of striking teachers and and stopping the automatic deduction of union membership dues. “Teachers, who have been threatened that your salaries will be cut; the judge has issued a ruling,” GTU President, Dr Mark Lyte said on ...

Guyana is considering the hiring of foreign nurses to man the several hospitals that are under construction, even as hundreds of local nurses continue to migrate mainly to the United Kingdom (UK), a top government official said Wednesday. “Soon we may have to bring in nurses to work in the country- because, once those hospitals are completed and most of ...

The United States (US) on Wednesday donated 1,000 doses of Paxlovid, an oral pill that is used to treat COVID-19 patients with a high risk of severe illness or death, to Guyana, the embassy here said. The embassy said that medication complements a separate donation of 354,660 Pfizer vaccine doses. Speaking at the handover of the doses to the Ministry ...

by GHK Lall If I am an investor, the Guyana Energy Confab is the place to be.  If I am an investor with big visions and deep pockets and huge hunger, then the man of the moment is Guyana’s President, Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali.  At least, he was the one on Monday.  Excellency Ali hit some soaring crescendos.  In ...

An fire believed to be of electrical 0rigin on Wednesday morning destroyed a house at Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara leaving nine persons homeless, the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) said. The house, which was located at 111 Bladen Hall, Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara, was occupied by 48-year old Aubrey Matthew and eight other persons. The GFS said that, as ...

The High Court is Thursday expected to hear an applicati0n by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) to block the deduction of monies from the salaries of teachers who are now on a 13-day old strike, but Attorney General Anil Nandlall said he plans to mount a stiff opposition based on court rules. Through its lawyer, Darren Wade, the GTU is ...

Two prisoners escaped from a Guyana Police Force van on Monday afternoon just outside the Lusignan Prison where they were remanded after they pleaded not guilty to a joint charge of simple larceny, police said. The Guyana Police Force said two policemen have since been placed “under close arrest as investigations continue.” The escapees are 31-year old Keon Webster, a ...

Guyana plans to export its excess natural gas to Brazil and several Caribbean countries and eventually fuel a bauxite smelter and gold refinery,  President Irfaan Ali announced on Monday. “Based on pure interest by investors, we are already seeing the second phase of gas coming in will already have to support a second power plant,” he told the government-backed Guyana ...

by GHK Lall This is my song: so much wrong embedded in 6.5%, so much gone wrong in Guyana Since the PPP Guvment ban de li’l girl and her kaiso, it is time for an adult to tell these so and some more bout deh 6.5%. I plan on submitting this for a national award. That is, if the censors ...

Veteran Guyanese politician, Hamilton Green at the weekend cited rigging of elections as an option to remove the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) from office. During a lengthy remark from the floor at a Burnham Foundation-organised lecture to mark the 101st birth anniversary of the late founder-leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Forbes Burnham, he recalled telling a ...