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President Irfaan Ali on Thursday evening announced an eight percent across-the board increase in salaries for government workers retroactive to January 2022, saying that members of the disciplined services would get an additional hike which would be announced next week. He said those, who benefit from the 8 percent hike, are public servants, teachers, members of the disciplined services and ...

Queen’s College teachers have been advised tentatively against banning a senior judicial officer from entering the school building because of alleged hostility he displayed to the Deputy Headmistress last Friday when he went to enquire why his daughter was made to apologise to a male student who has a history of aggression to other students, sources said. In correspondence seen ...

Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat on Thursday signaled strongly that government might amend Guyana’s Local Content Act to halt the participation of persons who opportunistically obtain Guyanese citizenship to cash in on opportunities in the country’s rapidly emerging oil and gas sector to the disadvantage of those who have been living and working here for decades. “It is only ...

Venezuela on Wednesday said the International Court of Justice (ICJ) could not hear Guyana’s case that the 1899 Arbitral Award with that Spanish-speaking western neighbour is a full, final and perfect settlement of the land boundary between the two South American nations because Britain is not a party to the proceedings. Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez told the ICJ in ...

Queen’s College teachers  are demanding that a senior member of the legal fraternity apologise to the Deputy Headmistress for his hostile encounter with her last week Friday or be banned from entering that school, according to well-placed sources. Chairman of Queen’s College’s Board of Governors Marcel Gaskin confirmed that the matter was being addressed but declined to provide further details. ...

United Kingdom Trade Commissioner for Latin America and the Caribbean , Jonathan Knotts on Wednesday said that a working group would be established with Guyana to work on a range of projects within strict deadlines, even as he said his country was keen on delivering high quality work rather than negotiating cheaper prices. “We have agreed to establish a joint ...

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said  Guyana could offer the United Kingdom (UK) energy security by guaranteeing hydrocarbon supplies to its former colonial power which does not have a reserve. Speaking during the working session of a meeting with a United Kingdom trade delegation and Trade Commissioner for Latin America and the Caribbean at UK Department for International Trade, Jonathan ...

NEWARK, N.J. – A Guyanese citizen was arraigned on Tuesday on drug conspiracy charges, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Dennis Edwards, aka “Death,” 38, is charged in an indictment returned in 2012 with conspiring to import five kilograms or more of cocaine from St. Maarten into the United States. He appeared on Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward S. ...

Teachers at Queen’s College are to go on a go-slow on Wednesday to protest the alleged hostile attitude of a senior member of the legal fraternity whose daughter attends that school, sources said. The Headmistress briefed teachers a representative of the Board of Governors and a representative of the Guyana Teachers Union about the incident that allegedly occurred last Friday. ...

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday night announced that government would be pumping an undisclosed amount of the oil money into business initiatives by Guyanese here and overseas. “I’m working to see how we can create a business model in which every Guyanese here and in diaspora can have an opportunity to invest in an investment vehicle that attaches them to ...