Mercy Hospital confirms Walter Willis death and launches investigation

The  St. Joseph Mercy Hospital has confirmed that Government Engineer Walter Willis passed away on the evening of Monday July 11, 2016. The hospital announced his death in a short statement and said it has embarked on an investigation to ensure that all clinical guidelines were adhered to in keeping with Standard Operating Procedures. Mr. Willis was […]

Department of National Events established

  (MOTP) – President David Granger, today, established the Department of National Events, under the Ministry of the Presidency. The Department will be headed by Colonel Nazrul Hussain of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and will be tasked with the planning and execution of all national events in the country. President David Granger, in an […]

UPDATE: Gov’t Engineer Walter Willis on life support

Medical sources are saying that longstanding Engineer at the Ministry of Public Infrastructure and Technical Adviser, Walter Willis is clinically dead but family members have not decided as yet to remove him from life support. Willis’ wife and daughter along with other relatives are currently gathered at the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital where he remains on […]

Crane man charged for murder of wife and son

The Crane Housing Scheme man who brutally chopped his wife and 2-year-old son to death, while severing one of the hands of his mother was on Monday charged and remanded to prison. Suresh Ganesh made his appearance at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrates’ Court and was not required to plead when the charges were read to him […]

PPP wants Parliamentary talks on recent Caricom decisions

Guyana’s Political Opposition, the People’s Progressive Party is not totally satisfied with the outcome of the recently concluded 37th Regular Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). At a press conference on Monday, PPP’s General Secretary Clement Rohee reflected on the meeting and urged the Guyana Government to allow the Parliament to […]

GPHC better able to treat kidney patients after receiving new dialysis machines

The Nephrology Department of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is now equipped to provide better care to patients with kidney disease. The department recently received eight dialysis machines from the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension of the University of Vermont’s Medical School. The machines were handed over to the GPHC by Dr. J.R. Deep Ford, […]

Trevor Rose’s family hope for justice as case is reopened

It has been just over two years since popular Guyanese designer and events co-ordinator, Trevor Rose, was gunned down while accompanying an ex-girlfriend home. The ex-girlfriend and the driver of the car that they were in, both survived.  Rose was riddled with bullets by gunmen who pulled up along side him on the East Bank […]

Venezuelans flocking Colombia to buy food

(BBC)   Thousands of people have crossed to Colombia after Venezuela opened their common border to allow its people to buy food and medicine, officials say. The frontier, closed by Venezuela last August as part of a crime crackdown, was to open for 12 hours. Venezuela is going through a deep economic crisis and many […]