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The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has applied to the High Court to be a party to the Guyana Teachers Union’s (GTU) case against the government because it touches on important issues that can affect other workers. In court papers released to the media on Tuesday, GTUC General Secretary Lincoln Lewis listed those issues as the legality of a strike, ...

President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union. Dr Mark Lyte on Monday evening fended off sharp criticisms of his decision to sign a High court-mediated agreement for teachers to call off a 29-day strike to pave the way for collective bargaining for increased salaries and other issues. “To say that the union is using teachers is a real mischievous statement because ...

The High Court on Friday sent a 25-day strike by teachers to mediation in the hope of getting the educators back to the classroom almost immediately. Justice Sandil Kissoon said Senior Counsel Edward Luckoo and Robin Stoby agreed to serve as mediators. They would start work by meeting representatives of the government and the Guyana Teachers’ Union at 9:30 am ...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Thursday said the High Court issued orders that for the time prevents government from cutting the salaries of striking teachers and and stopping the automatic deduction of union membership dues. “Teachers, who have been threatened that your salaries will be cut; the judge has issued a ruling,” GTU President, Dr Mark Lyte said on ...

The High Court is Thursday expected to hear an applicati0n by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) to block the deduction of monies from the salaries of teachers who are now on a 13-day old strike, but Attorney General Anil Nandlall said he plans to mount a stiff opposition based on court rules. Through its lawyer, Darren Wade, the GTU is ...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has asked the High Court to prohibit government from slashing the salaries of striking teachers and to continue the deduction of membership dues and remittance to their bargaining agent. “Conservatory order that the status quo will remain the same, that is the Government of Guyana will not deduct the monies from the wages and salaries ...

The High Court on Monday ruled that former husbands can also now apply for financial maintenance from their ex wives, finding that the Matrimonial Causes Act which provided that only men were liable to pay maintenance violates Guyana’s Constitution, Attorney-at-Law Tamara Evelyn-Khan said. The decision, which was handed down by Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire, essentially means that either a man ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo declined to respond to questions surrounding his “prolonged absence” from sittings of the National Assembly, after two opposition parliamentarians filed a court case to press for the top government parliamentarian to be removed from the House. “That’s a matter for the Speaker and we’ll respond accordingly,” he told a news conference on Thursday shortly information circulated ...

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Annette Ferguson was Thursday freed of a criminal Cybercrime charge based on a complaint by now Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier Omar Khan, according to Attorney-at-Law Lyndon Amsterdam. Senior Magistrate Leron Daly dismissed the charge that had been laid against the former government minister on June 21, 2021. ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Tuesday ruled that Mr Clifton Hicken’s tenure as acting Police Commissioner was properly extended after he reached retirement age of 55 years. “The framers of the Constitution envisioned that if there is not a substantive Commissioner of Police, that the statutory provisions that are applicable to a substantive Commissioner of Police would also apply to ...