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Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday openly backed the now 22-day old strike by teachers, saying it has virtually crippled several businesses and warned that the industrial unrest could spread to the public service. “It is now obvious that this impasse will continue and as such we have chosen to make this statement both to underscore our support for the ...

Guyana has pledged to provide additional financial support to the United Nations (UN)-led peacekeeping mission to Haiti, according to United States (US) Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. “Guyana has committed to additional funding. I don’t know what the amount is but the President has committed to providing additional funding, in addition to supporting the security needs, supporting humanitarian ...

Canada is lending Guyana CAD$120 million to support social services delivery in a number of areas, with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) co-financing the amount with US$30 million, the Canadian High Commission said Tuesday. The High Commission says the loan will be utilised to improve social protection and public assistance under the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MHSSS). ...

Chairman of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali on Monday begged stakeholders in Haiti to work together to pave the way for long-lasting solutions to the political and security crises facing that country. “This requires all stakeholders in Haiti, especially, to give a bit, to compromise a bit and to express a collective willingness to achieve the ...

A loader and a private security agent at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport were arrested Thursday in connection with several bags of cocaine that were allegedly delivered over the airport fence, according to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU). CANU said the 71.2 kilogrammes of cocainne were seized at a time when a New York-bound Caribbean Airlines flight and a British ...

President Irfaan Ali Thursday night said election rigging as a means to political power would not be allowed to return to Guyana. “Guyana’s harrowing experience with dictatorship stands as a stark reminder of the perils of rigged elections. That era is a closed chapter in our history,” he said in his address to usher in Guyana’s 54th Republic anniversary at ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Thursday said veteran Guyanese politician Hamilton Green’s recent remark about election rigging was taken out of context, but Attorney General Anil Nandlall said the former Prime Minister’s remarks Mr Norton said “if” was omitted in quoting Mr Green. “When it was carried by the press, they would have left ...

The Guyana Public. Service Union (GPSU) on Thursday said it would give government a deadline to negotiate increased wages and salaries  or industrial action  would called. The GPSU indicated that it first has to exhaust the grievance procedure, but gave no timeline when that would start. “The Union will continue to engage its members on this matter over the coming ...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Thursday said the High Court issued orders that for the time prevents government from cutting the salaries of striking teachers and and stopping the automatic deduction of union membership dues. “Teachers, who have been threatened that your salaries will be cut; the judge has issued a ruling,” GTU President, Dr Mark Lyte said on ...

Guyana is considering the hiring of foreign nurses to man the several hospitals that are under construction, even as hundreds of local nurses continue to migrate mainly to the United Kingdom (UK), a top government official said Wednesday. “Soon we may have to bring in nurses to work in the country- because, once those hospitals are completed and most of ...