-after failure by gov’t to hold talks for 2019-2024 After a bruising four-week strike, the GTU will resume its industrial action tomorrow over the government’s refusal to hold collective bargaining from 2019 to 2024.
The case involving former Chief Election Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield; former Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO), Roxanne Myers; and former Region Four Returning Officer (RO), Clairmont Mingo, among others, accused of electoral fraud, has been adjourned until May 29.
The body that was pulled from a trench at Dennis Street between ‘C’ and ‘D’ Fields, Sophia, Georgetown, on Monday afternoon has been identified as that of Monella Hamer of Pattensen Access Road, Turkeyen.
Local gold miners were recently given a boost with the distribution by the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) of mining blocks across four mining districts.
Twenty residents of Sebai and Canal Bank, riverine villages in the Matarkai sub-district of Region One (Barima-Waini), will soon be equipped with the necessary skills to become licensed small engine technicians. Set to be facilitated through the Board of Industrial Training (BIT), the four-month skills programme launched yesterday at the Sebai Primary School, will see 10 residents from each village undertaking it for the first time, a release from the Ministry of Labour said. (Ministry of Labour photo)
“Jaguars WC [World Cup] Qualifier ‘home’ game against Belize to be played in Barbados” was the headline of a story that ran in this publication’s sports pages on 30th April.
The Guyana Customs House Brokers and Clerks Association held their AGM on Saturday May 4th and Colin Moore was returned unopposed as the President for a second term.
Twenty-five-year-old Trifon Landry appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday, where he was charged with robbery and robbery with violence.
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Western Tigers defeated Den Amstel 4-2 in their final match of round one in the KFC Elite League yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence, East Bank Demerara.
– fixtures will decide roster berths for local players The Golden Jaguars senior men’s outfit will contest two international friendlies against arch-nemesis Trinidad and Tobago, which will be used to select the remaining roster spots for locally based players for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers.
Waramuri and Queen’s College recorded perfect 3-0 records in their Region #1 and #4 divisions, respectively, when the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Blue Water Shipping U-15 Girl’s National Championship commenced on Saturday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Up to late yesterday evening, police were still trying to determine a motive for the murders of a man and his common-law wife at their mini-mart on Penal Rock Road, Penal, on Monday night.
LIMA, (Reuters) – The Chinese state-owned company at the centre of a dispute over operations of a megaport it is building on Peru’s Pacific coast insisted yesterday on terms agreed with the government, as some local officials have sought to backtrack on the deal.
(Trinidad Express) Renowned Caribbean health researcher and scholar Professor Emeritus David Picou has died at the age of 97.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities today, causing serious damage at three Soviet-era thermal power plants and blackouts in multiple regions, officials said.
(Reuters) – AstraZeneca AZN.L said on Tuesday it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to a “surplus of available updated vaccines” since the pandemic.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Porn star Stormy Daniels described her 2006 encounter with Donald Trump in unflattering terms at his criminal trial yesterday, testifying she tried not to think about the sex while it took place and feared it would become public.
