Sugar workers are threatening to resume strike action if the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) fails to commence negotiations for a nine percent increase in wages and salaries, President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU), Komal Chand said Tuesday. Chand noted that 2015 was the first time in five years that GAWU had proposed the lowest increase in ...

A police constable, who is about to retire after serving for at least 36 years , was Tuesday arraigned for allegedly allowing a suspected drug trafficker to escape from lawful custody. Appearing before Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan, 54-year old Noel Trotman of 162 Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara was granted GUY$40,000 bail. He pleaded not guilty to the offence ...

Johnny Welshman, a controversial figure who had accused a prominent lawyer and politician of sexually abusing him as a teenager, was Tuesday arraigned on a charge of obtaining money by falsely pretending to be a lawyer. Appearing before Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan, he was placed on GUY$25,000 bail after pleading not guilty to the charge. He is to return ...

Guyana wants the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give a legal opinion on the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award of the boundary with Venezuela, but is mindful that its western neighbour could challenge such an opinion if it is not in its favour, Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge said Tuesday. “If for example, as we are suggesting the SG (United ...

Guyana is being urged by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to get its house in order as it relates to the implementation of the amendments of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering of Financing Terrorism (AML/CFT) law passed in Parliament in June. This comes after FATF held its plenary meeting in France from October 21 – 23 at which Guyana ...

President David Granger has ruled out giving neighbouring Venezuela access to the Atlantic sea as part of any settlement of the border controvery. “We cannot sell out. We cannot give away. We cannot offer the adversary any corridor or any passage,” said Granger who is also Commander-in-Chief after the successful completion of Exercise Greenheart, a tactical exercise, in the Cuyuni-Mazaruni ...

Even as the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) appealed to  the Guyana Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) to end its “illegal” strike, the Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder labeled the industrial action“political.” GAWU, which is closely aligned to the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), called a three-day strike on Sunday to press demands for management to begin pay negotiations. However, management has said ...

The U.S. Embassy says is very saddened to learn about the passing of our friend, Zenita Nicholson. In March of 2014, the U.S. Embassy awarded Zenita with our first ever International Woman of Courage Award in recognition of her exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for the protection of the human rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) persons. ...

Well-known human rights activist, Zenita Nicholson, who was the victim of domestic violence, died early Monday morning after ingesting several carbon tablets that are used to kill rats, police said. Zenita Nicholson was up to the time of her passing winding down a project as Country Coordinator for the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) and the Centre of Integral Orientation and ...

A suspected smuggler was shot dead Saturday night at his, shortly after a report of disorderly behaviour and damaged to property was made to the police against him. Shameer “Kazac” Ally, 36 years of Grant 1805 Crabwood Creek, sustained a shot gun injury between 7:30 and 8:30 Saturday, October 24, 2015. In the hours leading up to his death, he ...