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Vice President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Julian Cambridge on Wednesday admitted that financial matters were discussed with the government. Representing the government, lawyer Dharshan Ramdhani, at the outset, established that the previous multi-year agreement between the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and the government remains in force until a new agreement is reached. GTU Vice President Julian Cambridge, under ...

American Human Rights advocate, Laurence Helfer’s questions to the Guyana government before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) about last year’s detention of Permanent Secretary Mae Toussaint Jr. Thomas-Meerabux by United States Customs and Border Protection Agents. He pointed to her arrest as an example of alleged corruption and wanted to know what the Guyana government had been doing ...

A well-known Guyanese pilot has been found not guilty of trafficking in persons, after he was arraigned almost one year ago and placed on GY$1.3 million bail. The Bartica Magistrate Court on Thursday March 14, 2024 found Mr Charles innocent of all Trafficking in Persons (TIP) charges leveled against him by the Guyana Police Force (GPF), he said in a ...

High Court Judge, Sandil Kissoon on Tuesday ordered the Ministry of Education’s Chief Executive Officer, Saddam Hussain to produce proof that financial matters had been discussed with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) between 2019 and February 5, 2024. Attorney General Anil Nandlall undertook to provide the documents to the GTU’s lawyer, Darren Wade and lawyer for the Guyana Trades Union ...

The Guyana government has told the United Nations Committee on Human Rights that it could not implement Public Disclosure and Whistleblowers laws because the country was not prepared to do so. “We are unable to, at this point, to activate the Public Disclosure and Whistleblower Act because there are genuine problems of implementation,” Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail ...

The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is set to assist Guyana in strengthening its port security that would see the two countries using fingerprints to track down suspects. Under the agreement inked by Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn and US Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole D. Theriot, an FBI technical team would be deployed here to “support the ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Sunday promised public servants across Guyana an annual one-month bonus if his coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) wins next year’s general and regional elections Departing from the APNU+AFC administration’s scrapping of the one-month bonus for members of the Disciplined Services, Mr Norton said if the coalition is returned to office, ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday appealed to people in the Caribbean and Latin America to return to the days of taking home-cooked food to work and school and reduce their dependence on fast foods. “How do we ensure that the next generation just don’t eat but eat food with greater nutritional value? How do we go back to the bowl ...

Member of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union (GPSCCU), Patrick Mentore has refused to immediately hand over specific figures and other information about the Special General Meeting (SGM) of that financial institution, instead saying that the matter is still before the High Court. “Relative to the requested information, we are prepared to provide same, but have been advised by ...

In observance of World Social Work Week 2024 being observed from March 18 – 22, the University of Guyana’s Faculty of Social Sciences and ChildLink Guyana will host the Guyana Social Work Education and Practice Conference from March 19th – 20th, the university said. The conference will be hosted at the university’s George Walcott Lecture Theatre (GWLT), Turkeyen Campus under ...