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Finance Ministry should be formally involved in all salary negotiations for teachers- Former GTU President
Colwyn King As a strike by government-employed teachers dragged into its second week, former President of the Guyana Teachers' Union...
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Junior Labour Minister apologises for calling striking teachers “selfish and uncaring”
Junior Minister of Social Protection, Keith Scott. As the Ministry of Education hopes to get the Guyana Teachers Union back...
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About 10 percent of teachers on strike; Education Ministry deploys 500 substitutes
Teachers in Mabaruma on the picket line. The Ministry of Education on Monday night reported that about 10 percent of...
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Striking teachers abandoned classrooms countrywide while others remained on the job
Teachers in Mabaruma vent their frustration on these placards. Numerous teachers across Guyana stayed away from classrooms at government-run schools,...
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Education Ministry refuses to go to arbitration in exchange for calling off strike
GTU President Mark Lyte, acting Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education Adele Clarke, Chief Education Officer Marcel Hutson and...
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Teachers’ Union to prolong strike if govt refuses to negotiate recommended 40 percent salary hike
Executives of the Guyana Teachers Union briefing the media on Tuesday. The Guyana Teachers' Union (GTU) on Thursday threatened to...
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University of Guyana warns against stealing other people’s works, buying papers
A section of the new University of Guyana students at the orientation session held at the George Walcott Lecture Theatre...
Read moreDetailsTeachers’ salary increase demands “unrealistic”; 10% percent per year plus non-salary benefits more realistic
FLASH BACK: Teachers outside the Ministry of Education anxiously awaiting word from their union representatives who were Thursday afternoon locked...
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Technical-vocational education- a tool to tackle youth unemployment ; stop denying there are problems- Pres. Granger
President David Granger in the background addressing the opening of the Cuffy250 Annual State of African Guyanese Forum. President David...
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“We don’t want a clash” with teachers; govt offering what it can afford- Granger
President David Granger laying a wreath at the 1823 Demerara Revolt Monument President David Granger on Monday virtually ruled out...
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