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As the cost of living continues to increase, the General Workers Union (GWU) is continuing to press government to implement a two-year old decision by the Tripartite Committee to increase the minimum wage but Labour Minister Joseph Hamilton says the recommendation was still at Cabinet. GWU members and the General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis ...

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Saturday said it was satisfied that the environmental authorisation of the Yellowtail oil production project requires the ExxonMobil-led consortium to have emergency equipment in Guyana to cap a well should there be a blowout at the offshore project. “The PSC is pleased with the Oil Spill Response and Financial Assurance provision in the permit ...

Even as the Ministry of Labour continued to boast of an increase in the number of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) officers, the trade union movement on Friday urged the involvement of the employers organisation and urged inspectors to enforce the laws. The General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis noted that the Consultative Association of ...

Representative of the List of Candidates for A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), David Granger has urged the leaders of those two coalition partners to hold “meaningful consultations” on who should replace two recently resigned parliamentarians, he said Friday. “The Representative of the List has since written to Mr. Aubrey Norton, Chairman of A Partnership of National Unity ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Aubrey Norton on Thursday said he wanted the removal of the casting vote of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). “What we have to probably do is to have some mechanism that we should not give a casting vote to the Chair because when you give a casting vote to the ...

The first World Trade Center (WTC) to be set up in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be in Guyana. This follows the culmination of several months of negotiations between Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and the New York headquartered World Trade Center Association (WTCA). DDL said it recently secured a license to establish a World Trade Center in Guyana and will ...

Eight persons have been arrested in connection with two separate drug busts in Georgetown and Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. That agency said five persons were arrested on Tuesday at a house at 295 Shantiniketan Street, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown. The agency says the 11 kilogrammes of cocaine is valued at more than GY$12 million and ...

Even as the Alliance For Change (AFC) on Wednesday called on President Irfaan Ali to order an independent probe into Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall’s alleged disrespect for women, the Guyanese leader said the offended should go to the police. “There is a procedure in dealing with these matters so those procedures have to be utilised and followed,” he told ...

At least 33 Haitians are in Barbados for more than one month now, and have told authorities there that they are awaiting visas to enter Guyana. Guyana’s Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn told Demerara Waves Online News that he was aware of the reports but he declined to say whether or not they would be granted visas. “I got ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday said President Irfaan Ali did not breach Guyana’s Constitution by selecting Assistant Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken to act as Police Commissioner, and added that he was not obliged to pick the most senior police officer. In clear reference to concerns raised by the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) that Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Williams ...