By News Source Guyana on August 24, 2021
News, Politics
The Ministry of Education has announced its decision to reopen schools to face-to-face learning on the 6th of September. Teachers who are unvaccinated are being encouraged to get vaccinated by then. Teachers who remain unvaccinated will be required to produce a weekly COVID-19 PCR test result at their own cost or be marked absent from […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2021
News
Yarrowkabra businessman, Anthony Jones has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2018 murder of 19-year-old Nyron Vyphuis. He admitted to Justice Sandil Kissoon that he killed the youth during a drunken fit of rage. The businessman was assaulting his wife when the youth got involved and saved the woman’s life but lost his […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2021
News, Politics
The Ministry of Health has announced the arrival of a quantity of the one-shot Johnson&Johnson vaccine and 5000 doses of the Sputnik V 2nd dose vaccine. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is currently the only one-shot vaccine approved by the World Health Organisation. All of the other vaccines require two shots. It is also the […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2021
News, Politics
Former Attorney General Basil Williams has expressed some concern over the recently passed Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, pointing out that the piece of legislation is a clear danger in the fight to combat terrorism and transnational crimes and threatens the integrity of the country’s National Register of Registrants. The Registration of Births […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2021
Crime, News
The mother-in-law of a Sophia man who was found murdered last Sunday morning and three other persons were today remanded to jail for the man’s death. 24-year-old Keon McPherson who lived in D’ Field Sophia was discovered dead in a yard at C’ Field Sophia early Sunday morning. A post-mortem examination found gunshot wounds and […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2021
News
Telecommunication service provider, GTT has further expanded its Customer Service Department with the training of additional Customer Care Agents. In a statement, GTT said the new agents successfully completed and graduated from a month-long customer care training session at the company. Chief Executive Officer at GTT, Damian Blackburn applauded the latest batch for successfully completing […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2021
News, Politics
As the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education continue to meet to work out the modalities for the safe reopening of schools in September, the Ministry of Health is recommending that students be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to school. Additionally, the Health Ministry also wants other measures including the wearing of masks […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2021
News, Politics
661 new cases of Coronavirus have been recorded in the past five days and not much is being done to tackle the spread of the virus. Regions 3 and 4 are the regions recording the highest number of new cases, accounting for more than 75% of all new cases. The two neighbouring regions also continue […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2021
Crime, News
An 18-year-old man was stabbed to death at Swan Village along the Linden/Soesdyke highway on Saturday night during a drunken fight with one of his friends. Investigators have identified the dead man as Roy Boston. A police report revealed that late on Saturday night, Boston and a group of friends were at a bar in […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2021
Crime, News
Four persons are expected in Court this week to face murder charges in relation to the death of Sophia youth Keon Mcpherson. The D’ Field Sophia man was found murdered last Sunday morning in a yard at C’ Field Sophia. In a statement, the Police said the Director of Public Prosecutions has advised that murder […]