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The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) and IFEX-ALC network condemn in the  strongest possible terms the intimidation of journalists in Guyana and call on the Government to  immediately set the tone for a cessation of such acts that ultimately serve to fertilise the ground  for an escalation of such acts that can ultimately lead to physical harm.  The ACM ...

Faced with an estimated 12 percent increase in cost of living, the Federation of Independent Trades Unions of Guyana (FITUG) on Monday- Labour Day- asked the government to increase the private sector minimum wage to GY$81,000 per month. “As an interim measure, to assist our lower earning workers, the national minimum and public sector minimum wages should be equated to ...

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) on Monday- May 1- urged parliamentarians to pass several new laws that will force the government and the opposition to work together for the approval of National Budgets by a supermajority, and involve civil society in national decision-making. Addressing the 2023 May Day Rally at the Critchlow Labour College (CLC), GTUC General Secretary Lincoln ...

Reproduced from Gothamist By Matt Katz Published May 1, 2023 at 6:01 a.m. Lorenzo Charles, born in Guyana and raised in Brooklyn, was deported in 2003 following what he described as a wrongful conviction for attempted burglary. That should have been the end of Charles’ American story, as it is for so many legal immigrants convicted of crimes and then ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton believes he has a plan to ease racial tension in Guyana where the political playing field is split almost evenly between the two Afro and Indo-Guyanese. Addressing Guyanese in Barbados at the weekend, he said his People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) does not use racism as a campaign tool but ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton has back-pedaled on his intention to stop the June 12 Local Government Elections (LGE) over alleged widespread forgery of the names of nominators/backers in the nomination process, and instead said his A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) would use the legal route as recommended by the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). While many persons ...

Retired Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Brigadier Godfrey Bess is tipped to head the Defence Diplomacy Office which is being established at the Office of the President to influence this country’s international partners, according to well-placed government sources. President Irfaan Ali earlier this week told the opening of the Guyana Police Force Annual Officers’ Conference that the new ...

United States Senator Tim Kaine has said that President Irfaan Ali was upset that that country had blocked an Inter-American Development Bank  (IDB) US$180 million loan to Guyana Shore Base Inc (GYSBI) because its operations were dedicated to the oil and gas sector and even cautioned that China could provide financing “with no strings attached.” Recalling a meeting with Dr ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday night said the increasingly controversial National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) Bill would be sent to parliamentary bipartisan select committee to allow persons to submit their observations. “I am aware of the importance of this Bill, but equally, I am committed to ensuring the fulsome nature of the Bill is understood and that interested stakeholders ...

President Irfaan Ali has announced that a counter-terrorism unit would be established with foreign help, weeks after the American Embassy had tightened its security because of a threat against US interests. “We are also now analysing the establishment of a counter-terrorism unit that will  be built with support from our regional and international partners,” he told Thursday’s opening of the ...