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The main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Wednesday called the negotiated 10 percent retroactive salary increases for 2024 and 8 percent for next year a “highway robbery” when the President and ministers’ salaries are calculated in dollars and compared to those of lowly paid workers. “This is highway robbery. We call on the PPP (People’s Progressive Party) to ...

A Guyanese start-up airline, Jet Global Services (Guyana) Inc., has clinched a deal with Bulgaria-headquartered GullivAir and the Switzerland-based LunaJets to offer Guyanese and oil sector workers another option to connect to neighbouring Brazil, the Caribbean and North America. “As Guyana becomes a significant player in the global oil market, the demand for a reliable, affordable international airline has never ...

The man, who was seen on video allegedly stabbing his wife multiple times on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, was charged with attempted murder and refused bail, police said. The Guyana Police Force (GPF) said 26-year-old Navin Stoll of One Mile Turn, Soesdyke-Linden Highway was charged on Tuesday with the indictable offence and he was not required to enter a plea. The ...

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday announced that the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) and the government signed a two-year wages and salaries agreement that would see them benefitting from a 10 percent pay hike for 2024 and eight percent next year. “This 10 percent increase in salary, which is retroactive to 1st of January 2024, would amount to 35 percent ...

by Agence France-Presse Residents evacuate Poste Marchands in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on December 9, 2024, after gangs took control of the region on December 7. Nearly 200 people in Haiti were killed in brutal weekend violence reportedly orchestrated against voodoo practitioners, with the government on Monday condemning a massacre of “unbearable cruelty.” (Photo by Clarens SIFFROY / AFP) Port-au-Prince, Haiti (AFP) ...

AFP – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil By Lucia Lacurcia Brazil’s 79-year-old President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva underwent surgery for a brain hemorrhage related to a recent fall, hospital officials said Tuesday. “The operation went without complications” on Monday night, and Lula was “doing well, under monitoring” in an intensive care unit, the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in São Paulo said in ...

Public servants are expected to get an increase in wages and salaries as part of a two-year agreement between government and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), a well-placed source said Monday. While the government s0urce declined to say whether the accord is expected to provide for a double digit pay hike, a GPSU official said union negotiators were at ...

The Guyana government on Monday said Region Nine (Upper Takatu-Upper Essequibo) is not re-registering residents there for the GY$100,000 cash grant, amid claims by a number of residents that they were being asked to do so. “The Region is not re-registering residents in Region 9, since each citizen 18 years or older, is only entitled to one grant and any ...

At least 43 residents of Lethem, Region Nine (Upper Takatu-Upper Essequibo) were told that they needed to register again for the GY$100,000 cash grant because their data was not saved on the devices at the time of registration, a senior regional official said Monday. Some children got registered but their parents didn’t get registered even though all of them did ...

Guyana on Monday submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague its final written brief on the merits in its case against Venezuela. The brief, officially entitled “Guyana’s Reply to Venezuela’s Counter-Memorial” was personally delivered to the Registrar of the Court by Guyana’s Ambassador in Brussels, Sasenarine Singh. In the merits phase of the case, each party ...