Guyana News

The Guyana Government today wrote the GTU stating that it will no longer act as an agent for it and deduct dues from the wages and salaries of teachers and remit same to the union.

By Shuntel Glasgow and Abigail Headley Hundreds of teachers from all across the country went on strike yesterday as their union threw down the gauntlet to the government over its failure to engage in free collective bargaining since August 2020.

Over 180 residents of Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice yesterday received Certificates of Title, granting legal ownership of lands they have occupied for decades, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported.

Berbice teachers yesterday took to the streets throughout the region in support of the GTU strike calling for the Ministry of Education to head back to the bargaining table with the union to work out an option for increased salaries for educators.

By Antonio Dey While Chairperson of the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union Limited (GPSCCUL) Karen Vanslutyman-Corbin maintains that a court-ordered Special General Meeting (SGM) was convened yesterday at the Critchlow Labour College, Trevor Benn, a member of the committee of management said that this was “disingenuous”.

La Parfaite Harmonie disc jockey (DJ) Roger Gibbons who prosecutors say pretended to be the well-known DJ Ace—and who allegedly lied to a young woman about being able to offer her a modelling job before raping her—has been found not guilty.

In recent weeks no work has been done on the Liliendaal pump station which has a completion date of April this year.

Former machine operator, Deonarine Seetaram of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara (WCD), has been sentenced to eight years behind bars for the 2019 killing of re-migrant, Mohammed Shameem Hassan.

Opposition Chief Whip Christopher Jones has raised concerns over meetings not being held by the parliamentary sectoral committees.

Yuri Nicholas has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the May 3rd, 2019 unlawful killing of Elton Leonard at Karasabai Village, Rupununi, Region 9.

Hundreds of teachers gathered in front of the Department of Education, Anna Regina, yesterday morning to take part  in the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) countrywide strike.

A petition has been lodged for the winding up of Troy Resources Guyana Inc (TRGI).

Deputy Commissioner ‘Operations’ Ravindradat Budhram says tints must be removed from operational police patrol vehicles.

President Irfaan Ali met with the US Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer and the National Security Council Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere Juan González yesterday afternoon at State House in Georgetown.

Teachers this morning gathered outside of the Ministry of Education on Brickdam for the start of a strike.

By Antonio Dey The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Mount Sinai Health Sys-tem of New York, USA yesterday unveiled a state-of-the-art Telepathology Laboratory at the George-town Public Hospital for World Cancer Day.

A 22 year-old man who was charged with larceny of a person was refused bail when he appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court last  Monday.

A 49-year-old man of Campbellville, George-town, was shot and killed in the wee hours of yesterday at South Ruimveldt Park, where he had gone to attend a wake.

By Abigail Headley The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and teachers across Guyana will today embark on a two-week strike to protest failure by the relevant authorities to address four key issues raised by the union.

The Government of Guyana is in talks with the University of West Indies (UWI) about the establishment of a medical school in Guyana.