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The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) on Thursday- May Day 2014- extended an olive branch to the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) in the face of remote prospects for unity of the two bodies. FITUG’s First Vice President, Komal Chand said if fence-mending efforts continue to fail, a mechanism should be set up for the two federations ...

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) on Thursday- May Day- signalled that it would pressure government into a crafting a proper turnaround plan for the ailing Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco), even as the large sugar union said it was optimistic that the industry would rebound. After the customary May Day Parade, several unions under the GTUC banner converged at the ...

Fresh concerns about perceived bias by the Commission of Inquiry into the bomb-blast death of Guyanese politician, Dr. Walter Rodney have surfaced- now about the Chairman, Sir Richard Cheltenham who 30 years ago suggested that Rodney’s foes had killed him. “Whatever attempts are made to envelope his death in confusion and surround it with controversy, I doubt that it has ...

Two Chinese nationals were Wednesday night shot and injured during an apparent robbery in the vicinity of Robb and King Streets, Georgetown. Police said Shai Zing, 44 years, and Lin Tang, 29 years, both of Robb Street, Georgetown, were among a group of other Chinese outside of the Zhang Xing business place at Robb Street when two men, one of ...

A pork knocker who allegedly decided to burglarize a miner’s store at Mahdia and a steal more than quarter million dollars’ worth of jewellery was Wednesday remanded to prison. The case against 25 year old Peter Giddings of Kwakwani Park was transferred to Mahdia Court for July 14. City Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan refused Giddings bail after the prosecutor, Dinero ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&) on Wednesday announced that it will be plugging GUY$60 million into the cash-strapped University of Guyana To help that institution in Information Communications Technology (ICT) and other areas. “As we at GT & T reviewed  our contribution to the various sectors of our social  economy, we felt that support to this premier educational ...

Guyana’s combined political opposition on Wednesday condemned government’s decision to revoke the work permit of the head of the United States- funded Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project and warned that the Americans could soon react sharply. Reacting to government’s decision to scrap the work permit issued to Chief of Party of the LEAD Project, Glenn Bradbury, Opposition Leader, David Granger ...

The Guyana government on Wednesday announced that the work permit Head of the United States (US)-funded Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project, Glenn Bradbury has been revoked amid ongoing objections to the project. “It is a fact that the revocation has taken place but it is equally a fact that Mr, Bradbury,  a Canadian citizen has had a reputation brought to ...

Attorney-at-Law, Basil Williams Wednesday morning told Commissioners probing the bomb-blast death of Guyanese politician Dr Walter Rodney that the public hearings were accepting too much hearsay but they disagreed that Guyanese laws were being suspended to allow a free-for-all. “The Commission has suspended Guyanese laws and so there is no filtering here. People can come in and say all kinds ...

An inmate of the New Amsterdam prison was up to late Tuesday afternoon in a critical condition after he was stabbed by another inmate there. He is Brian Hescott of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara. Sources said his left lung was damaged after he was stabbed with two ‘jookas’ (sharpened ice picks). Hescott was rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital ...