Guyana News

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) says that it reiterates its support for all trade unions who are denied the constitutionally protected right to engage in collective bargaining on their memberships’ behalf.

Unicomer (Guyana) says it has accelerated works at its investment projects here as the company expects increased economic growth.

Justice Sandil Kissoon this afternoon ruled that the Government is barred from deducting monies from striking teachers’ salaries until the the GTU’s legal challenge against this move is determined.

The Ministry of Public Works today signed a design and build works contract with China Road and Bridge Corporation for the East Bank Road Improvement Works from Good Success to Timehri.

The Executive Council of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) today said it had unanimously decided at its Statutory Executive Council Meeting held on February 21, 2024, that an ultimatum be issued to the Government to meet at the bargaining table, the failure of which will result in industrial action to immediately end the government’s breach of the following guiding instruments of legal weight and force:  1. 

The GTU’s legal challenge against the Government’s decision to cut the salaries of striking teachers faces a potential delay as the Attorney General’s Chambers has requested an extension from the High Court of 14 days to reply.

Pushing for closer integration with  Castries, President Irfaan Ali said yesterday that during the last 10 years, Guyana exported US$71 million in commodities to St Lucia, while the Caribbean island exported US$79 million in supplies to the “Land of Many Waters”.

Preliminary inquiries point to Guyana as the destination for a sunken barge spilling oil off Tobago’s coast but GPL yesterday it has not been advised by any of its suppliers of problems resulting in the loss of cargo.

A devastating fire, which the Guyana Fire Service [GFS] said originated from a slack connection, yesterday morning completely destroyed a one-flat wooden house at Lot 111 Bladen Hall, Railway Embankment, East Coast of Demerara.

Former senior Guyanese trade unionist, Kaisree Takechandra has chided the Ministry of Labour for abdicating its conciliatory role in the ongoing teachers’ strike for better wages and salaries.

The Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department has started investigations into the workplace death  which occurred at Omai Port, Wismar, Upper Demerara River on Tuesday at the Alya Construction Company.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Tuesday evening welcomed LNDCH4 Guyana – the gas to energy company – as it opened its office here.

Capoey Lake miner, Carl Welcome was yesterday  committed to stand trial for the murder in 2018 of Shervin Melville.

The police say they are investigating the murder of Colane Kerwin, a 31-year-old male labourer of #53 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, which occurred at about 11.30  on Tuesday night at #53 Village.

The US government yesterday donated 1,000 doses of Paxlovid, a drug used to treat COVID-19, to Guyana. 

Yansen France, a 35-year-old unemployed resident of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast, was charged on Tuesday 20th February, 2024 with the offence of malicious damage to property.

Yesterday, two days before Guyana’s Republic Day celebrations, Region Two teachers returned to the Anna Regina High Bridge where they gathered under tents displaying placards demanding “collective bargaining”. 

GTT/GBTI customers can now top up their prepaid accounts (phones) using GBTI Online.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday met with the French Chargé d’ Affaires in Guyana and Head of the French Diplomatic Office, Jean-Jacques Forté, along with the International Sales Manager of Airbus, Sofien Madane, at his Camp Street Office yesterday.

Clifton Graham, a 34-year-old unemployed man from Bare Root, East Coast Demerara, was arrested on 15-09-2023 and charged today with the ‘Rape of a Child Under 16 Years’.