Teachers to resume strike on May 9th
In light of the absence of talks with the government on wages, the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) today announced that it is resuming its strike on May 9th.
Power ship briefing: Prime Minister Mark Phillips (second from left) being briefed yesterday aboard the Turkish power ship on its operations. The ship moored at Everton on the Berbice River on Sunday and it is supposed to be connected to the grid to begin providing 36 megawatts of power by tomorrow. It was one of the relief measures taken by the government to cover a shortfall in generation. (Guyana Power and Light photo)
Amidst the official preoccupation with the perceived development prospects that repose in an economic engine which, these days, is driven by oil, it is easy to ‘leave aside’ the discipline-related crisis in significant sections of our education system which, for want of any serious attempt at remedy, up to this time, grows, to the considerable discredit of the Ministry of Education.
Police from Regional 4 ‘C’ Division have arrested two suspects in relation to the murder of Joseph Forde.
By Shuntel Glasgow The families of two men who died on the job are faced with delays even as they seek justice from the Ministry of Labour and the companies with whom they worked: Tepui Group Inc.
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In the first ever ‘Guyana Media Games’ sponsored by the Office of the Prime Minister and organised by the National Sports Commission (NSC), the ‘Purple Heart Posse’ took top honours as Guyana’s media operatives downed cameras, pens and keyboards to take part in a day of sports at the Eve Leary Ground in Kingston.
After relegating their sister counties Berbice and Essequibo to defeats in the Guyana leg of the Caribbean Airlines sponsored T10 Village Cricket, Demerara flew the Golden Arrowhead high in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday to win the regional title with wins over South East (Trinidad) and St.
Linden came alive on Sunday night as the “One Guyana Kings and Queens Beach Football” came to an end in the compound of the PPP/C Office in Mackenzie, Linden with male outfit Young Gunners and the females of Speightland emerging champions of the competition.
(Trinidad Guardian) The estimated costs of the clean-up operation so far for the Tobago oil spill at the central Government level is around US$12 million but by the end of the exercise it could increase to as much as US$30 million, says Energy Minister Stuart Young.
(Trinidad Guardian) St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says “unsuccessful attempts” had been made to impugn the character of the former president of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr Hyginus “Gene” Leon, whom he described as “a distinguished son of our Caribbean civilisation from St Lucia”.
(Trinidad Express) A 29-year-old man who has been called ‘the prime suspect’ in the mass shooting reported in Cocorite on Saturday night which claimed the lives of four men, and injured eight others, has been held attempting to flee the country.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said it was up the West to choose between confrontation and cooperation as he was sworn in for a new six-year term today at a Kremlin ceremony that was boycotted by the United States and many of its allies.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s military said today that a suicide bomb attack that killed five Chinese engineers was planned in neighbouring Afghanistan, and that the bomber was also an Afghan national.
HANOI, (Reuters) – War veterans, party leaders and diplomats gathered in Vietnam’s Dien Bien Phu province today for an event to mark the 70th anniversary of the country’s victory over French colonial forces.