PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – President of the Oilfield Workers Union (OWTU), Ancel Roget, Tuesday accused Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley of seeking to "change the conversation" over the situation regarding the state of the local economy as well as the plans to reform the state-owned oil company, PETROTRIN.
“He is in a job for which clearly the country recognises...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Education Minister Nicolette Henry says she plans to meet with officials of the Guyana Trade Union (GTU) to discuss unresolved issues after the union earlier this week said it had instructed its members to embark upon industrial action from August 27.
Henry said that the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the GTU had agreed to another round...
By Dr. Vishnu Bisram
Indo-Trinidadian Vidiadhar Surujprasad Naipaul has written extensively commenting on societies in his travelogues. His scholarship has touched every corner of the globe. He is a legend, world renown, perhaps the best writer in the English language with his writings prescribed for literature in virtually every university.
There is hardly a “schooled” person in the Indian diaspora who...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Two police officers are assisting the investigations into the death of a 37-year-old Brazilian miner, who was shot over the weekend.
The police said that Evastevo Marques Costa was killed in the Puruni District, Cuyuni/Mazaruni on Saturday.
Media reports said that the man had been shot after he ran away from the police who were checking on the...
US Ambassador Says With the Right Policies Guyana Could Become one of the Richest Countries
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) was launched in Georgetown on Monday night US Ambassador Perry Holloway predicting that foreign investment “will only increase in the coming years”.
“Guyana has vast untapped resources and a small population. The potential is enormous. With the...
While on a Stony Brook University Medical Outreach
GUYANA -- Former top student at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams, Yogeeta Persaud, died suddenly in Peru earlier this week while on a medical outreach.
Persaud, 20, of Golden Fleece, Essequibo Coast and a former student of Anna Regina Multilateral was adjudged the Caribbean’s most outstanding student in 2013 after securing...
Say They've Exercised Enough Patience
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The Guyana Teachers union (GTU) Monday said its members will embark upon strike action from August 27, so as to ensure an agreement is reached with the Ministry of Education (MOE).
GTU president, Mark Lyte in a memo to teachers said that the strike action would continue “until further notice”.
Schools are due to...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana, which has one of the highest rates of suicides globally, has launched an anti-suicide campaign aimed at raising awareness of the situation.
The “Anti-Suicide, Anti-Violence Campaign” is being organised by The Caribbean Voice (TCV), in collaboration with Voices Against Violence and the grouping also used the occasion to announce the selection of Minister of Social Cohesion,...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Canadian oil and gas exploration company, CGX Energy Incorporated, has named its next exploration well, 'Utakwaaka', following an Indigenous naming and blessing ceremony by the historic Aleluya Indigenous Group.
The ceremony, on Friday, was a collaboration between CGX and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, and was attended by several government ministers including Prime Minister Moses...
NEW YORK – Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has launched a scathing attack on United States President Donald J. Trump’s immigration policies, describing them as ongoing assaults on immigrants.
“In the White House, we have a man who is not of sound mind, morals or values who has made decisions and implemented policies that have been a full frontal...
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