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University of Guyana Vice Chancellor Professor Jacob Opadeyi  Tuesday morning joined the picketing demonstration, appealing to lecturers to return to work and promising them that salaries would be increased. He declined to comment beyond the statements on the placards. The academic and non-academic staff have been on a now almost two-week old sit-in strike to demand a 60 percent increase ...

University of Guyana students Tuesday morning blocked the gate to the Turkeyen Campus  to shut down operations there as part of efforts to press demands for improved teaching-learning conditions. Security guards chained the gate to posts to prevent the students from locking them. A Deputy Vice Chancellor entered the compound, escorted by a man brandishing a firearm although there is ...

The East Bank Essequibo village of Vergenoegen was Tuesday still in a state of mourning for four persons, including three children, who drowned while returning from a ritual at the foreshore, police said. Those, who perished on February 1, 2015, are 53-year old Radika “Nadira” Persaud of 13 Vergenoegen Public Road, 14-year old Rovin Persaud, nine-year old Annatina Persaud and ...

The United States (US) will Tuesday afternoon deliver 28 Guyanese deportees- the single largest number in years- to the land of their birth aboard a charter flight, Police Commissioner Seelall confirmed. “It might be the biggest  from the US in the last many years,” he said, adding that he could not recall any being sent from as far back as ...

A High Court writ was Monday filed challenging the constitutionality of Guyana’s two-term presidential term limit that prevents Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo from running again. Filed by Cedric Richardson of 4 West Ruimveldt against the Attorney General, Anil Nandlall and the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman the motion seeks to scrap the term limit clause in the Constitution. ...

Staff and students of the University of Guyana (UG) on Monday agreed to shut down the Turkeyen Campus on Tuesday to pressure authorities into increasing salaries and improving the teaching-learning environment. “The students have advised me that they are planning to shut the campus down so they might actually preempt us so I suggest based on the response that we ...

Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Professor Jacob Opadeyi’s call for workers to be in “full operational mode” because classes resume from Monday has been labeled a “threat” by the union that says the “sit-in strike” continues. President of the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU), Bruce Haynes on Sunday reiterated that his union and the University of Guyana ...

A drunken driver, who ploughed into pedestrians early Sunday morning and killed them, was caught at his home, police said. Dead are Adrian Osborne,23, and Colin John,20, of Henrietta, Essequibo Coast. Police said they were walking along the roadway at Richmond, Essequibo Coast  about 3 AM Sunday when they were struck down by a motor vehicle.  Osborne and John were ...

Two gold miners were attacked at gunpoint in the city Saturday night and robbed of cash and valuables. Andre De’ Abreu, 34, was shot to his left side and has been admitted to a hospital. His friend, 35-year old Jason Ramjattan, who was in De’ Abreu’s car, at the time was robbed of his cellphone. Investigators were told that about ...

A newspaper vendor was Sunday morning shot outside a newspaper distributorship in Georgetown, police said. Investigators identified him as 47-year old Warren Accra of Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara. The incident occurred about 7:20 AM on Robb Street, Georgetown near Scotia Bank. The distributorship supplies vendors for Kaieteur News and Guyana Times newspapers. Police said that a man, who was ...