Author: TrakkerNews

I do not scare easy!
This was the statement made by acting Prime Minister Errol McLeod in response to protest action by the Public Service Association (PSA) and other trade unions yesterday.
Hundreds of public servants marched from the Eric Williams Financial Complex in Port of Spain to the Prime Minister’s St Clair office yesterday in an attempt to deliver a letter calling for outstanding wage negotiations to be settled.

A farewell parade was held for female assistant commissioner Ms. Paulette Veronica Morrisson who has retired from the Guyana Police Force. Morrisson told a large gathering of young police officers to work diligently, honest, punctual and to follow the motto of the force which is to serve and protect.

Acting Prime Minister Errol McLeod today presented the members of the new minimum wages board.
Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Labour Ministry Ashford Sankar is the chairman of the seven-member board.
Economist Hayden Manzano, Industrial Relations Manager Stephanie Fingal, Labour Relations Officer Cindy Joseph, unionists Ozzi Warwick and Ida Le Blanc as well as Reshma Goolcharan make up the board.
The board is to conduct consultations to determine the minimum wage.
McLeod is expected to meet with the board late next month.

It is possible that within the next 48 hours, embattled leader of the Justice For All Party, Cn Sharma may be medevac to Trinidad, where he is expected to undergo emergency treatment for his heart, which local doctors here in Guyana are unable to carry out.

Popular Talk show host and leader of the Justice for All Party(JFAP), Cn Sharma, might be in danger since his condition worsened within the last 48 hours. According to doctors at a private medical institution, his pressure rised over 150 on Sunday and then drop to zero. He was given an injection that is said to be keeping him stable and even alive. Sharma suffered cardiac arrest Saturday evening after his blood pressure dropped to zero.

THOUSANDS of public servants answered the Public Service Association’s (PSA) call to march to the Prime Minister’s St Clair office today, the union’s president Watson Duke has said.
Duke has declared "war" against the government for its inability to settle salary negotiations for public servants months before wage negotiations come to a close.
Duke yesterday called on public servants to walk from the Eric Williams financial complex to deliver a "simple letter" to the Prime Minister’s office in St Clair today.

After heavy pressure from friends and neighbours of the late Sandra Ali of 117 West Ruimveldt, the police have launched an investigation into the woman’s death.

This morning Government pathologist Nehaul Singh perform a post mortem and reported that Sandra Ali’s body has multiple injuries and evidence of strangulation.

The death certificate has Ali died from Breast Cancer.

The police this morning  has issued a wanted bulleting for Raymond Fraser of 17 Reliance Settlement East Canjie, Berbice.

Raymond is wanted for a series of robberies under arms and the recent cache of arms found in Berbice which included two AK 47 rifles stolen from the Guyana Defense Force.

The 26 year old fugitive is of mixed race brown in complextion and slim built.

Controversial TV talk show host and leader of the justice for all party CN Sharma is now a patient at a private institution following another heart attack Saturday evening.