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The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Friday insisted that GY$20 billion in the 2024 National Budget could be redirected to pay increased wages and salaries to teachers and other government employees, refuting claims by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo that the treasury cannot afford to pay more sustainably. People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Executive Member Dr ...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Friday rubbished claims by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo that the union has failed to submit its financial records under the law for several years to show how it has been spending millions of dollars in membership dues. GTU Vice President, Collis Nicholson said financial records of that bargaining agent are presented at its delegates ...

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Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo declined to respond to questions surrounding his “prolonged absence” from sittings of the National Assembly, after two opposition parliamentarians filed a court case to press for the top government parliamentarian to be removed from the House. “That’s a matter for the Speaker and we’ll respond accordingly,” he told a news conference on Thursday shortly information circulated ...

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Annette Ferguson was Thursday freed of a criminal Cybercrime charge based on a complaint by now Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier Omar Khan, according to Attorney-at-Law Lyndon Amsterdam. Senior Magistrate Leron Daly dismissed the charge that had been laid against the former government minister on June 21, 2021. ...

The governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP) has submitted the names of its nominees to sit on the Constitutional Reform Commission, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. They are Gail Teixeira, Dr Frank Anthony, Attorney-at-Law Anil Nandlall, Kwame Mc Coy, and Pauline Sukhai. Political parties and other stakeholder organisations have until February 10 to submit their nominees. Opposition Leader Aubrey ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday signaled that government could not afford to pay teachers higher salaries now as planners needed to ensure that government’s salary bill was sustainable. “Your revenue has to sustain it in a long-term way to be sustainable and countries manage for sustainability,” he told a news conference. “A wage policy has to grow in accordance ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on  Thursday said future talks with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) have a hit a major stumbling block as that bargaining agent has not submitted audited statements and financial records since the 1980. “They’ve been running down this union. This is an unaccountable union by any standards,” he said. He further claimed that the GTU breached ...

The opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has submitted its nominees for the Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC) which has been tasked with further reforming Guyana’s constitution, Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton said. They are  Vincent Alexander, Sherwood Lowe, Ganesh Mahipaul and Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes. “We have consulted and it is the parliamentary that had to submit ...

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that there would be unspecified changes in the way the operations of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) in keeping with a greater focus on technology, assets and partnerships with foreign partners. “There will be, based on our assessment, some reorientation, reorganising of the way we do our work and ...