UG staff reject 5% pay hike offer

University of Guyana staffers rejected Vice Chancellor Jacob Opadeyi’s offer of a five per cent pay increase yesterday, after a morning of negotiations between the university and UG Workers Union.

The university was deserted yesterday, save for a few students walking aimlessly about the campus as talks between the parties continued in the Education and Humanities Lecture Theatre. On the East Coast Demerara Railway Embankment, in front of the access road leading to the university,