Guyana

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 February 2024, 15:56 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), backed by the umbrella Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), is poised to take legal action against government for stopping the deduction of union dues, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 February 2024, 8:45 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall Democracy is one strange animal, an unending fascination, to be sure.  Perhaps, it is the understanding and practices of democracy in Guyana that are strange, in ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 February 2024, 21:29 by Denis Chabrol The High Court on Monday ruled that former husbands can also now apply for financial maintenance from their ex wives, finding that the Matrimonial Causes Act which provided that ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 February 2024, 15:27 by Denis Chabrol A Nigerian man, who perpetrated an attack at State House more than three years ago, was Monday sentenced to three years imprisonment. Police said Bethel Chimezie, who committed the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 February 2024, 20:05 by Denis Chabrol President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Mark Lyte on Sunday dismissed government’s claims that billions of dollars in membership dues have been misspent and instead said there is ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 February 2024, 18:39 by Denis Chabrol The Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department  on Sunday said it has launched an investigation into a fatal accident that resulted in the death of a ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 February 2024, 16:38 by Denis Chabrol A foreign national died at Vreed-en-Hoop Shorebase Inc (VEHSI) in an industrial accident, the company said in a statement. The foreigner, who was working with a subcontractor, perished in ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 February 2024, 7:01 by Denis Chabrol By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I once was assigned the unbelievably fortunate task of accompanying Ngugi Wa Thiong΄o around American University (Washington DC), where I was a faculty ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 February 2024, 21:56 by Denis Chabrol Amid claims and counter-claims about whether the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has been properly accounting for membership dues, the Registrar of Commerce and the Auditor General’s Office on Friday ...

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