Education
No cash strike relief but teachers still vow to abandon classrooms; GTU to seek legal advice on blocking salary deductions
Guyana Teachers' Union President, Mark Lyte (standing) addressing teachers at the GTU's headquarters on Woolford Avenue, Georgetown. As thousands of...
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Ministry of Education releases CAPE, CSEC reports
L-R – Assistant Superintendent of Examinations, Ms. Dawn Griffith,Deputy Permanent Secretary (Finance), Ms. Adele Clarke, Minister of Education,Nicolette Henry and...
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Ministry of Education preparing to activate emergency plan if teachers strike for increased salaries, allowances
Delegations from the Ministry of Education, Department of Labour and the Guyana Teachers Union meeting on Thursday at the Ministry...
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Minister of Education summons Teachers’ Union to meeting as strike looms
FLASH BACK: President David Granger being escorted in the Guyana Teachers' Union compound, Woolford Avenue, Georgetown. Minister of Education, Ms....
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Guyanese selected for US Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program
Evie Gurcharan The U.S. Embassy on Friday proudly announced the 2018 cohort from Guyana for the Young Leaders of the...
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Teachers’ union never agreed to specialist to calculate pay hike; Education Minister to be officially notified of strike call
FLASH BACK: President David Granger being escorted in the Guyana Teachers' Union compound, Woolford Avenue, Georgetown on May Day, 2018....
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Teachers to go on strike as pay talks collapse again; union agrees to hiring of specialist to calculate salary increases
FLASH BACK: LABOUR DAY 2018-President of the Guyana Teachers' Union, Mark Lyte leads his contingent on the May Day march...
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WPA will mobilise public pressure on govt to accept direct cash transfers of oil money to poor
Second from right" Professor Clive Thomas, WPA Chairperson, Tabitha Sarabo, and Executive Members, David Hinds and Tacuma Ogunseye. The Working...
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Charles Ramson slams Anil Nandlall over direct cash transfers of oil earnings to poor producing “parasites”
Attorney-at-Law, Charles Ramson Jnr. Another People's Progressive Party (PPP) presidential candidate hopeful, Charles Ramson Jr. Wednesday morning openly disagreed with...
Read moreDetailsTeachers Union to know govt’s position on increased salaries, other benefits this week; union willing to consider reduced offer
FLASH BACK: GTU President, Mark Lyte (standing) during the breakdown of salary talks with a Ministry of Education team led...
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