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BRIDGETOWN – A recent study has found that despite modest improvements on last year, food insecurity in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean remains persistently higher than pre-pandemic levels, driven by the cost-of-living crisis, global economic volatility and the lingering impacts of the pandemic. The Caribbean Food Security and Livelihoods Survey, carried out jointly by the United Nations World Food Programme ...

A man suspected of being a bogus land seller was arrested on Monday at the Ministry of Housing, Brickdam for allegedly trying to defraud another man of GY$250,000 as payment for a plot of land, the Guyana Police Force said. His name has not yet been released by police who only said that the suspect is 30 years old and ...

The non-governmental organisation, ChildLinK Inc. on Tuesday condemned last week’s flogging of 10 Queen’s College students at that institution and urged the Ministry of Education to abolish corporal punishment in its entirety. “The flogging of children has no place in a modern, progressive society like Guyana and the Ministry of Education should strongly consider taking a more proactive approach to ...

Talks between the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and the Ministry of Education ended in a stalemate over the union’s demand for a 20-percent interim salary increase pending final negotiations and the need for a fixed timeframe for mediation, GTU President Mark Lyte said Monday. No date has been fixed for the two sides to meet in the presence of the ...

Former University of the West Indies (UWI) International Relations Professor, Mark Kirton said the United States’ (US) erasure of Cuba’s name from a list of countries not cooperating fully in fighting terrorism signaled that that communist-ruled nation could soon be taken off Washington’s list of terrorism sponsors. “The Cuban administration has made significant efforts to be part of any anti-terrorism ...

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) was Sunday mum on whether intelligence gathering and espionage agents of its ranks on Saturday continued to engage in overt rather than covert operational activities, in contrast to decades of practice. The GPF did not acknowledge that any 0f the agents who confronted it were present during the arrest of a man on Brutus Street, ...

The overdue congress of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) is to be held from June 28 to 30, party leader Aubrey Leader announced on Friday. He said the congress would be held in-person only, and made it clear that there would be no online participation. The decision was made at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Central Executive. The PNCR’s ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Civic, Bharrat Jagdeo was Thursday tight-lipped on whether Executive Council member, Nigel Dharamlall was free to be nominated for existing party positions although he was being investigated for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman. “That’s preempting the discussions that we may have so I don’t want to speculate on that matter,” he told a ...

The Guyana government on Thursday announced that National Insurance Scheme (NIS) contributions would no longer be required for write-offs of student loans to University of Guyana (UG) graduates, three days after the announcement. “We want to make this easy for our people and other students who have outstanding loans. We don’t want to put in conditions that will create or ...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is demanding a 20 percent interim pay increase before the teacher’s strike is called off to make way for the start of mediation, but the Ministry of Education on Wednesday said the union’s demand amounted to duress. “We wanted to include an interim payout to teachers before we resume school and have the situation normal ...