GTU President suspended over teachers wage deal
GTU President Mark Lyte today told Stabroek News that he had been suspended by the union’s General Council over the controversial deal struck between teachers and the government in August this year.
A group of Venezuelan Warrau migrants who had been stranded in Georgetown on Monday evening were finally provided with assistance by the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs yesterday.
President Irfaan Ali (right) at the Qatar National Day reception at the Marriott Hotel on Monday night. Acting Charge d’ Affaires in the Embassy of the State of Qatar, Mohammed Ebrahim Al Rumai is at left. (Office of the President photo)
On Monday, at Mar-a-Lago, US president-elect Donald Trump stated to reporters, “There is talk about the postal service being taken private, you do know that — not the worst idea I’ve ever heard.
The decomposed body of a man who was reported missing on December 14, was discovered at the Cove and John foreshore on Monday afternoon.
The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) yesterday certified MACORP’s Scheduled Oil Sampling (SOS) laboratory under the GYS 170:2021 standard, highlighting the facility’s commitment to precision, reliability, and adherence to international best practices, a MACORP release announced.
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(ESPN Cricinfo) – Bangladesh defended their modest score of 129 to clinch the T20I series with a 2-0 lead, beating West Indies by 27 runs in the second game at the Arnos Vale Ground in St.
KFC International Football Series – Chase Academy hits DC Caesar Fox for 6 By Michelangelo Jacobus Matchday two in the KFC International Goodwill Football series produced even more fireworks and goals with four more thrilling encounters, albeit heavily one-sided in some cases, as defending champion Clarendon College of Jamaica and Chase Academy Foundation stormed to comfortable wins.
(ESPN Cricinfo) – West Indies levelled the T20I series in style, with captain Hayley Matthews at the forefront of a robust batting performance in a nine-wicket thrashing.
(Trinidad Express) On December 8, a passenger plane over Port of Spain descending into the Piarco International Airport, came within six metres (20 feet) of unmanned drone.
SANTOS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Helena Monteiro da Costa’s father was brought from Angola to Brazil as an enslaved person in the 19th century.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) is expressing shock and outrage at the tragic death of veteran journalist Barbara Gayle.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service yesterday morning in the most high-profile killing of its kind.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis has revealed he was the target of an attempted suicide bombing during his visit to Iraq three years ago, the first by a Catholic pontiff to the country and probably the riskiest foreign trip of his 11-year papacy.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register newspaper and its former top pollster, the day after he stepped up his legal threats against news outlets and said he would also consider suing social media influencers for defamation.