Daily Archive: Thursday, August 9, 2018

Articles published on Thursday, August 9, 2018

Members of the GTU negotiating team reporting to members following a three-hour meeting with government officials.

[Video] Teachers to strike after failed talks with govt

After a disastrous three-hour meeting today with government representatives, the executive of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has been directed by its members to inform the Department of Labour that teachers will be proceeding on strike action beginning in the pre-term period and continuing into at least the first week of the new school year.

Winston Jordan

Growth rate upped

Finance Minister Winston Jordan yesterday presented the 2018 mid-year review to Parliament and upped the projected growth rate to 3.7% for the year but the key sectors of sugar, gold and rice were down and there were also unsettling figures on balance of payments and foreign reserves.

Raphael Trotman

AFC says ready to prove itself at LGE

The Alliance for Change (AFC) yesterday dismissed suggestions that its  40 percent  seat allocation proposal to its governing coalition partner for  the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE) was too high and said that it is ready to prove itself.

Joshua Persaud’s 71 lasted 134 minutes pix saved as persaud9

TT beat Guyana despite Persaud, Sinclair heroics

Defending Cricket West Indies Regional Under-19 three-day champions Guyana, were humbled in the second round, losing by nine wickets in two days to Trinidad and Tobago (TT) despite a half century from Joshua Persaud and a five-wicket haul from Kevin Sinclair in a low-scoring affair at Sion Hill Playing Field yesterday.

Usain Bolt could possibly sign a professional contract with the Central Coast Mariners

Bolt closes in on possible professional contract

SYDNEY, Australia,  CMC – Eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt’s dream to become a professional footballer could soon become a reality after he negotiated an “indefinite training period” with Central Coast Mariners in Australia’s A-League.

Matthew Munroe

Harbour Bridge employee gives evidence

The Preliminary Inquiry into the murder of Kescia Branche, with which Matthew Munroe has been charged, continued yesterday with Branche’s father and a Traffic Coordinator attached to the Demerara Harbour Bridge taking the witness stand.

Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin (centre of back row) posing with some of the NGSA graduates and teachers at the prize-giving ceremony (DPI photo)

Kwakwani and Howell Wilson pupils recognised

Recent graduates of the Kwakwani and Howell Wilson primary schools in Sub-region Two, of Region Ten, Upper Demerara-Berbice were recently honoured for their outstanding performances at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Ending modern-day slavery

Recently, at a major international airport in the United States, a teenage girl who was travelling with her maternal aunt was pulled aside by immigration officials and questioned as to whether she was willingly going to her destination.