Education

President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Dr Mark Lyte on Wednesday announced that the now eight-day old strike by educators would continue indefinitely, even as Attorney General Anil Nandlall did not rule out the police being called in on the union for failing to submit its annual financial returns. He signaled that public servants might be joining the industrial ...

President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Mark Lyte on Sunday dismissed government’s claims that billions of dollars in membership dues have been misspent and instead said there is clear evidence that teachers benefit every year from the GY$700 monthly contribution. “Our members are satisfied that their dues are spent in a very fair and honest manner,” he said. The ...

President Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Friday pleaded with teachers to exercise patience as the government continues working to gradually improve the working conditions for every category of worker. “Everybody believes that all our resources are available now. In 2027, that is when the real revenue growth would be seen in the country. And I have said to our teachers, nurses, ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Friday insisted that GY$20 billion in the 2024 National Budget could be redirected to pay increased wages and salaries to teachers and other government employees, refuting claims by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo that the treasury cannot afford to pay more sustainably. People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Executive Member Dr ...

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 ...