Ministry of Social Protection Training Seminar
The Ministry of Social Protection Labour De-partment held a Seminar for Public and Private Sector Organisations on February 8th, 2018. The training session was held in the Ministry’s Boardroom located at 82 Brickdam, Georgetown. Components of the Seminar were the ‘Leave with Pay Act’ and the ‘National Minimum Wage Order’, facilitated by Attorneys-At-Law Ms. Kimberly Yearwood and Mr. Kevin Morgan. In his Opening Remarks of the Seminar, Mr. Charles Ogle– Chief Labour Officer urged participants to seeks clarifications on the con-tent of the presentations to be aware of legal guidelines as Employers and employees. A total of twenty-five participants [...]
NCD Meets C.H.& P.A Representatives
Representatives of the National Commission on Disability (NCD) met with a team from the Ministry of Communities—Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH& PA) on February 20th, 2018 at the Commission’s Secretariat 49 Croal Street, Georgetown. The meeting was requested by CH&PA’s Project Engineer Randolph Hunte. The Commission welcomed this form of collaboration which addresses the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Housing, as stipulated in the Guyana Persons with Disabilities Act, 2010. The Agenda of the meeting focused on the required specifications for constructing houses for Persons with Disabilities in particular the blind and wheel chair users. CH&PA’s “Housing [...]