`Demand fair share of pie’
– Lyte urges unions `For too long we have allowed the employers, our government, present and past to treat us like second and third-class citizens.
The police yesterday said that two persons sustained burns after fire destroyed a two-storey house at Fyrish on the Corentyne.
The market vendors union was part of yesterday’s May Day march.
Anyone who had business at any of the post offices around the country today, Thursday, May 2, 2024, would have encountered them; throngs of pensioners trying to cash their National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and Old Age (OA) vouchers.
The Tucber Park Housing Co-operative Society has been successfully revived following a visit by the Ministry of Labour’s Department of Co-operatives and Friendly Societies to Tucber Park, New Amsterdam, on Tuesday.
As part of its contribution toward a carbon-free society, Scotiabank has announced that it is now accepting grant submissions across its footprint, including Guyana for its Net-Zero Research Fund, a release on Tuesday from Scotiabank Guyana stated.
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King & Queen Beach Football Speightland will match skills with Hururu in the women’s divisional final, while Young Gunners will take aim at Hi-Flyers in the men’s championship match following respective semifinal wins in the King and Queen Beach Football Championship on Tuesday evening.
KFC Elite League Buxton United’s winless run in the KFC Elite League continued on Tuesday evening as they registered their eighth consecutive defeat, losing 1-4 to Den Amstel at the National Training Centre, Providence.
(CMC) – West Indies “A” grabbed a 2-1 lead in their Twenty20 series against hosts Nepal after opener Johnson Charles carried his bat for a dynamic Player-of-the-Match hundred to set the foundation for a 76-run win yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) A large group of British American Insurance Company (BAICO) policyholders from several Eastern Caribbean countries will have to wait to learn the fate of their lawsuit over a move by the T&T government to bail out only local financial subsidiaries of CL Financial (CLF).
(Trinidad Guardian) She has reached the remarkable age of 110, yet centenarian Dharmie Deo, affectionately known as Moyo, still does not wear glasses.
(Trinidad Express) Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass has said that her independent office is under “political” attack, and she has threatened to haul Attorney General Reginald Armour before the courts should the State refuse to pay the legal costs for her to defend herself in this regard.
ASHDOD, Israel, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday he has still not seen a plan for Israel’s planned offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that would protect civilians, repeating that Washington could not support such an assault.
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse May Day demonstrators trying to reach Istanbul’s main Taksim Square today, and Turkish media said dozens of protesters were detained.President
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York City police officers entered the grounds of Columbia University last night to arrest and disperse pro-Palestinian protesters who took over a campus building nearly 24 hours earlier and have occupied a tent camp at the Ivy League school for nearly two weeks.