Education

Reproduced from Peace Corps (peacecorps.gov) by Chanel Rigby, a Peace Corps Response Volunteer who serves as a school support officer in Guyana. I am a Brooklyn girl, warmed by the Florida sunshine with Guyanese blood running through my veins. I was born in Flatbush to Guyanese parents and I identify as a first-generation, Caribbean-American person of Afro descent. My parents ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday signaled that government could not afford to pay teachers higher salaries now as planners needed to ensure that government’s salary bill was sustainable. “Your revenue has to sustain it in a long-term way to be sustainable and countries manage for sustainability,” he told a news conference. “A wage policy has to grow in accordance ...

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 said Wednesday. “It is a political issue. The government is a ...

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, Coretta Mc Donald told reporters from the picket line. “It might ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Ministry of Education on Monday said teachers, who participate in an illegal strike, would lose pay, but declined to provide a figure on the number of educators who responded to the Guyana Teachers’ Union’s (GTU) call for industrial action to force government to the bargaining table for increased salaries and allowances. “The Ministry of Education has accepted the opinion ...

Even as the Guyana Teachers’ Union  (GTU) vowed that the strike action would continue if the Ministry of Education does not agree to come to the table to negotiate for increased salaries and allowances, both sides gave differing accounts of the industrial action that began Monday. GTU General Secretary, Coretta Mc Donald, said similar to the estimated 200 teachers who ...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Monday dismissed claims by the Guyana Police Force that teachers were being threatened to participate in a strike. “I am not aware of any threats issued by GTU to teachers,” GTU President Dr Mark Lyte told Demerara Waves Online News. Police said that received calls Monday morning “indicating that persons are being intimidated and ...