Guyana News

Region Two teachers continue to strike but opted to stay at home yesterday and will do so again today.

Though found guilty of murder, former Sophia block maker, Ishaka John, has been sentenced to a minimum period of custodial detention of eight years; as he has also been declared insane.

Courts Unicomer Group yesterday donated 20 full-face helmets and an AKT motorcycle to the Guyana Police Force Traffic Department.

Former Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green has voiced shock at the plan by the government to utilize two grounds along Carifesta Avenue for a Qatari Hotel.

Winston Hazel of Tucville was shot last night multiple times about his body by two men on a motorcycle.

Teachers on strike yesterday protested in front of the Regional Democratic Council of Region Six located in Vryman’s Erven, New Amsterdam as they continue their call for collective bargaining between the Guyana Teachers’ Union and the Ministry of Education.

The Ministry of Home Affairs – Ministerial Taskforce on Trafficking in Persons yesterday said  that on Friday  a total of twenty Mines and Environmental officers from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission benefited from a one day anti- trafficking in persons’ session.

By Bebi Oosman and Abigail Headley With the teachers’ strike in its sixth day yesterday, positions hardened on both sides with the government vowing to deduct monies from those on the picket line and the GTU vowing to go court over the matter.

In a landmark ruling yesterday, acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC said that men can now apply for matrimonial benefits on the dissolution of a marriage as she found their constitutional rights were breached by the Matri-monial Causes Act which only made provision for women to be maintained by their former spouses.

Citing a Venezuelan military buildup along several parts of the frontier with this country, US think tank, CSIS, has posited that Caracas is engaged in a carrot and stick strategy to extract concessions from Guyana even though Georgetown is adamantly pursuing a resolution of the longstanding border controversy before the World Court.

The probe by the Ministry of Labour into the death of 36-year-old Venezuelan, Rusbel Azocar  while he was working at the Vreed-en-Hoop Shore Base Inc (VEHSI) construction site on Saturday continued yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States sees no indication there are about to be hostilities at the Venezuela-Guyana border, White House spokesperson John Kirby said yesterday.

Bethel Chimezie, the Nigerian national who launched an attack at State House in Georgetown on 15th December 2022, was sentenced yesterday to three months imprisonment together with three years of supervised probation on the count of discharging a loaded firearm with intent.

Guyana is now a member of the Egmont Group or International Association of Financial Intelligence Units.

Thirty-seven-year-old Akeem Lammy of 107 Meadowbrook Gardens appeared before Magis-trate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with attempted murder.

By Shuntel Glasgow In the wake of pressure from the government over its strike, the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) yesterday said it is not in breach of financial rules and its audited reports are submitted at every GTU annual conference, Mark Lyte,  its President, told Stabroek News yesterday that the union is currently addressing several issues raised by government.

Scores of teachers from the Pomeroon River and the hinterland communities in Region Two have joined in the strike called by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) for increases in  salaries through collective bargaining.

Thirty-six year old Rakesh Arjun appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weever at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with larceny.

Since the Ministry of Health  launched a Telemedicine Programme targeting the remotest villages in Guyana including Masakenari, four lives have been saved, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Upping the ante in the GTU strike which entered its second week, the ministries of education and local government and regional development today said that those teachers who have been absent without excuse  will not be paid and that this will be reflected in their March salaries.