Stabroek Weekend

Teachers’ strike Court orders mediation between GTU, Ministry: In a major development in the teachers’ strike which has dragged on for 18 school days, Justice Sandil Kissoon last week ordered that mediation begin today with two senior counsel and both the GTU and the government will attend though the latter last night said that judicial intervention was unnecessary given established industrial relations practices.

Working for three years in the private sector made Nicholas Fraser, head of the Allied Arts Unit (AAU) in the Ministry of Education (MoE) realise how valuable his skills and expertise in education are to the nations’ teachers and children, and that this was where he got job satisfaction.

By Abigail Headley As much as he loves Chutney, for Vicadi Singh, a 32-year-old husband and father from Better Hope, East Coast Demerara family is everything.

It’s not granola but it is easy to see how it can be part of the family of granola.

The Civil Procedure Rules provide that a Court may, on its own initiative, order any or all parties to a proceeding to participate in a mediation.

Sparks from the central fire – I was lucky to be near enough to feel the blaze these men ignited in the world.

On February 26th, as Guyanese recovered from an eventful three-day weekend of celebrations marking our 54th Republic Anniversary, Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA marked a milestone birthday.

Brandon Singh has always harboured a fascination with embodying multiple personas.

Human beings have evolved from unicellular organisms into creatures of intelligence who are capable of making inventions and building cities.

 I always swore to myself that I would never become consumed by any reality TV show.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at an entry in the  Forgotten Scoreboard File.

You wouldn’t think that the recent Oscar nominee for Best Picture (Celine Song’s “Past Lives”) has much in common with the Will Gluck romantic-comedy “Anyone But You”, but both films are an unwelcome reminder that contemporary romances keep forgetting the most important thing – a burning romance.

Today is the final round of the 2024 Literary Festival of the Guyana Prize for Literature. 

“I hear a lot of people say that you don’t mind your neighbour business and that is better to keep to yourself.

Last week we broke down some of the provisions in the Sexual Offences Act which seek to protect children from people in positions of trust who may seek to use that position to commit sexual offences against them.

Introduction Today’s column considers the third modeled driver and metrics related to the affordability of the Buxton Proposal; Government Take or the average effective tax rate, AETR, yielded by the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) regime governing Guyana’s oil exploration, development and production.

LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The fourth trading period in February 2024 has resulted in the Lucas Stock Index declining by 0.571 percent on the sale of 208,516 shares. 

Industrial Judge orders teachers salaries, dues deduction preserved pending outcome of strike case: Justice Sandil Kissoon last Thursday ruled that the Government is barred from deducting monies from striking teachers’ salaries until the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU)’s legal challenge against this move is determined.

By Miranda La Rose Just over six years ago, Headmaster Quado Vancooten moved to Kurupukari Primary in Fairview Village, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) after learning of a grave teacher shortage at that school.