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Banks DIH Limited’s more than 1,000 unionised workers will now get a 25% salary increase plus a monthly cost of living allowance of GY$17,000, President of the General Workers’ Union (GWU), Norris Witter said Saturday. “Given the extenuating circumstances, it is a satisfactory deal,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. Mr Witter explained that the pay hike has been broken ...

President Irfaan Ali seemed set to appoint Assistant Police Commissioner, Clifton Hicken to the substantive position of police commissioner, effectively discarding concerns by Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton about his suitability for the top law enforcement position. Mr Norton told Dr Ali that there should be “continued dialogue on the search for a best-fitted person for the chair of Commissioner of ...

New United Nations Resident Coordinator to Guyana, Ms. Jean Kamau, recently presented her credentials to President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, at the Office of the President. The UN Office in Guyana said on Friday that the presentation signaled the official start of Ms. Kamau’s mandate in Guyana. Ms. Kamau, who is a national of Kenya, is replacing Ms. Yesim Oruç of ...

New York-based opposition political activist, Rickford Burke on Friday demanded GY$100 million in compensation from Guyanese city businessman, Roshan Khan, for allegedly libeling him in a Facebook post titled “In the Raw: Submachine Guns everywhere”. Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes demanded from Mr Khan an apology for his September 10, 2024 Facebook post which contains charges of serious libel on Mr Burke ...

One Communications, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and several non-governmental organisations, collectively referred to as Champions of Hope, officially launched Pinktober 2024 on Friday, continuing its mission to raise awareness and support for cancer fighters and survivors across Guyana, the company said. Speaking at the launch event themed ‘Many Hearts, One Fight,’ Ian Lewis, Director of Brand and ...

Two men were Friday charged with the abduction of Joshua “Bricks” David and they were remanded to prison, while five other suspects surrendered and remained in custody, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said. Those charged with abduction in violation of the Kidnapping Act 2003 are Osafo Peters and Alpha Poole. They were not required to plea and were remanded to ...

Guyana on Thursday ruled out the restriction or banning of Chinese businesses, in the wake of concerns that the increasing number of mainly supermarkets is outcompeting their nearby locally-owned counterparts with cheaper prices. “If the idea is to stop people based on nationality, it would be impossible to do it. What if China says ‘we’re not going to sell Guyana any ...

An electrician has been jailed for one year after he pleaded guilty to stealing numerous street lights around the young professionals housing units at La Bonne Intention (LBI) Housing Scheme, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said Thursday. Police said 34-year-old Sharmo Jones of Plaisance Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara also told the court that he installed a number of the ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Suriname’s state-0wned oil company, Staatsolie, has been boasting that his country has clinched a far superior production sharing agreement with TotalEnergies compared to Guyana’s with ExxonMobil and its co-venturers. He said while Guyana has 2 percent royalty and 50 percent profit split and no taxes, Suriname’s agreement provides for 6.25 percent royalty, profit split based ...

Opposition parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira, who was seen in social media pictures with President Irfaan Ali and former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) members at the Providence Cricket Stadium on Tuesday, said he remained a member of that party but did not mean that he could not mingle with politicians from across the divide. “I’m a PNC man,” he told Demerara ...