The group of public servants protesting for the removal of union president Patrick Yarde says that his continued occupation of office is illegal since the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) rules clearly state that no member shall hold the post for more than two consecutive terms.
The two unions representing workers of the University of Guyana (UG) say that based on the government’s increased subvention to the institution, there are sufficient funds to payout a “decent” increase in wages.
A 64-year-old newspaper vendor was gun butted and beaten to his head and his wife was shot early yesterday morning when armed bandits held him hostage before invading his Eccles, East Bank Demerara home, demanding cash and other valuables.
While it will take millions of dollars to bring the dilapidated Municipal Abattoir up to standard, the
City Council is embarking on a phased upgrade of the facility.
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC — Sunil Ambris’s monumental double hundred ensured Windward Islands Volcanoes took full honours for the second straight day of their eighth round game in the Regional four-day championship at Warner Park.
By Dr Rudy Insanally
(Dr Rudy Insanally served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana from 2001 to 2008)
March 25, 1957 remains a red-letter date on the calendar of modern Europe.
By Oluatoyin Alleyne
Raised in a “very violent family” in Jamaica, Jacqueline Linder from a very young age saw herself as a “survivor of trauma” and knew that the inner struggles that came with such an experience were faced by many others and this planted the seed of wanting to help such persons.
The Carter Center Guyana will host a symposium on Guyana’s constitutional reform process on March 31 at the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus from 6 pm.
LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of people marched through London yesterday to protest against Britain leaving the European Union, just four days before Prime Minister Theresa May launches the start of the formal divorce process from the bloc it joined 44 years ago.
With government committed to the development of Crab Island in Region Five, to serve the future oil and gas sector, the Guyana Lands and Surveys Com-mission (GL&SC) is hoping to ensure the development of surrounding lands that it is seeking to lease.
The High Commission of India to Guyana yesterday opened a two-day sari-draping demonstration and exhibition, aimed at showcasing the beauty and versatility of the Indian cultural wear.
DUBAI (Reuters) – A Yemeni court in territory controlled by the armed Houthi movement sentenced the group’s enemy in a two-year-old civil war President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and six other top officials in his government to death for “high treason” yesterday.
The case file in relation to four-year-old Ramkarran Mohan who was struck down and killed more than one week ago on the Tuschen Housing Scheme Main Road will be sent tomorrow for legal advice, according to a release issued by the Guyana Police Force yesterday.
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran yesterday denied US accusations that its fast-attack boats were “harassing” warships at the mouth of the Gulf, and said Wash-ington would be responsible for any clashes in the key oil shipping route.
LONDON (Reuters) – Once the preserve of rich oil exporters or nations with trade surpluses, like Norway, Kuwait and Singapore, an unlikely new breed of sovereign wealth fund is emerging – in countries with large deficits and deep debt.
KINGSTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Jamaican police made an arrest last week under the nation’s cybercrime laws, the identity of the suspect took many by surprise – a women’s rights activist accused of publicly naming alleged sexual predators on social media.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) met on Thursday with British High Commissioner, Greg Quinn, to discuss a number of matters which are of concern to the private sector.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC — Following their chastening whitewash last September, West Indies are quietly hoping to return the favour on home soil, when they take on Pakistan in a the four-match Twenty20 International series starting at Kensington Oval here Sunday.
Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall has written Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan calling for a rescinding of the dismissal of Linden Town Clerk Jonellor Bowen.