City workers agree to end strike

Terms of resumption were yesterday afternoon signed between representatives of striking city workers and the Local Government Ministry and will see the workers returning to their duties within 72 hours.

“They have up to 72 hours the latest to start back… they ought to start to meet and discuss the issues,” Minister within the Local Government Ministry Norman Whitaker, told Stabroek News briefly last evening.

The signing came a day shy of a week since Guyana Local Government Officers Union and the Guyana Labour Union opted to take industrial action after the non-payment of salaries for