UG unions pressing ahead with petition against VC

Action between Christianburg/Wismar Secondary and New Silver City in their semi-final affair at the Wisburg Secondary School ground

The staff at the University of Guyana at a meeting yesterday at the Turkeyen Campus voted overwhelmingly to support a No Confidence Petition in the Vice Chancellor, Professor Jacob Opadeyi, a release from the UGSSA and the UGWU said last night.

The No Confidence Petition, which was first floated in April 2015 and drafted by a member of the academic staff, was wholeheartedly supported by the executives and membership of the University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU), the release said.

The release said that it was agreed at the meeting that the petition would be tendered to the