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A number of recently installed Region Four Councillors from the APNU have indicated that they were unaware of any agreement between their party and the AFC over the Vice-Chair position on the Regional Democratic Council. The APNU has both the Chair and Vice-Chair positions, leaving some members in the Alliance for Change fuming over the […]
Three men, ages 46, 69 and 73 are the latest COVID-19 fatalities in Guyana. The three deaths were recorded yesterday and bring to 85, the total number of deaths from Coronavirus in Guyana. The increase in fatalities over the past two months has raised serious questions about the efforts to fight the disease in Guyana. […]
With the number of coronavirus cases rising in the country steadily, the Guyana Defence Force will be joining the Police in encouraging citizens to follow the COVID-19 national measures. During a press conference hosted by the National COVID-19 Task Force, GDF Chief of Staff Brigadier Godfrey Bess said the GDF will be working with the […]
Hours after the government announced an ease in the curfew hours and plans to reopen the country’s international airports, Prime Minister Mark Phillips warned that the relaxing of some of the measures does not allow for persons to ignore the other measures. “If you want to stay alive, now is the time to stop partying […]
The Government is moving to reopen the country’s international airports at Timehri and Ogle, to regular schedule service from the 12th October, as it continues to ease the COVID-19 restrictions. The latest gazetted order states that the current restrictions on the operation of the airports will expire on the 11th October. The Cheddi Jagan Airport […]
Newly elected Chairman of Region Four, Daniel Seeram, has indicated that the Regional Democratic Council is willing to work along with the Central Housing and Planning Authority in the efforts to ensure the development of house lots for Region Four residents. Mr. Seeram attended the outreach that the Housing Ministry hosted this morning with East […]
The Guyana Public Service Union has given the Government and the Georgetown Public Hospital a 72-hour ultimatum to begin moves to address the concerns of nurses and other healthcare workers who have been on the frontline in the fight against COVID-19. The move by the union comes in wake of the GPHC threatening the health […]
Hundreds of residents and squatters along the East Coast of Demerara gathered this morning to meet with officials from the Central Housing and Planning Authority to discuss and make house lot applications. The meeting was originally planned to cater to squatters who have been in a stand-off with Guysuco after occupying the company’s lands at […]
The Government of Guyana and ExxonMobil have signed the license for the Payara offshore development, further expanding ExxonMobil’s investment in the local oil sector. The approval of the project follows several reviews and consultations by local and international experts, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources. The project in the Stabroek Block is expected to […]
Teargas and pellets were fired at squatters in the Success area this afternoon as they held their ground in a stand-off with the Police as a bridge linking the main road to the squatters’ settlement was destroyed. The Police were called in by the sugar company, Guysuco, which has been trying to get the squatters […]
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