By News Source Guyana on July 28, 2021
News
The Giftland Mall has announced that all staffers of Giftland Officemax who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 will have to submit a negative COVID-19 PCR test result at the beginning of every week and they will have to stand the costs for those PCR tests. It is not clear whether the company is instituting […]
By News Source Guyana on July 27, 2021
News, Politics
Leader of the Alliance for Change and Opposition Member of Parliament Khemraj Ramjattan today said the Speaker was wrong when he sought the advice of Attorney General, Anil Nandlall on the three no-confidence motions submitted to him. Two of the motions are against two senior Government ministers while the third was filed by the Government […]
By News Source Guyana on July 27, 2021
Crime, News
Family members of the Providence woman, Patricia Dhanraj who was arrested after the stabbing death of her common-law husband during a fight, are standing at her side. The woman’s family believes that she should not face any criminal charges since she was defending herself after years of physical abuse at the hands of the now-dead […]
By News Source Guyana on July 27, 2021
News, Politics
Two weeks after the Police Service Commission filed an urgent application in the High Court asking the Court to reverse a suspension order by President Irfaan Ali and to give effect to the Police promotion list released by the PSC, the matter has been fixed for next Wednesday before Justice Gino Persaud. The Police Service […]
By News Source Guyana on July 27, 2021
News, Politics
The Ministry of Health has retained the services of a translator to translate Covid-19 vaccination messages in the indigenous languages for the indigenous communities across the country. “So, to reach people and to get over these messages the Ministry has been able to hire someone who translated messages pertaining to the vaccination, the importance of […]
By News Source Guyana on July 26, 2021
News, Politics
The Ministry of Housing and its Central Housing and Planning Authority will be moving to construct 500 low-cost homes at Plantation Golden Grove on the East Bank of Demerara. The announcement was made today by Housing Minister Collin Croal as he distributed house lots and land titles at the National Stadium for areas along the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 26, 2021
Elections, News, Politics
The Leader of the Liberty and Justice Party and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Lennox Shuman has issued a call on the Government to only provide its cash grant for children to fully vaccinated parents. In a statement on his Facebook page, Mr. Shuman is also recommending that house lots only be provided to […]
By News Source Guyana on July 26, 2021
News, Politics
Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony has announced that his Ministry will continue its nationwide inoculation of persons who have already received a first shot of the Sputnik vaccine from tomorrow. A total of 10,000 2nd dose shots arrived in the country this morning and will cater for the remaining persons who received the first shot […]
By News Source Guyana on July 26, 2021
News
An early morning fire at Block 22, Wismar Linden has claimed the life of an 81-year-old woman. The dead woman has been identified as Norma Semple. The Fire Service was summoned just after 2 o’clock this morning as the fire ripped through the wooden house. Persons in the area said the woman was heard crying […]
By News Source Guyana on July 26, 2021
News, Politics
The Government of Guyana has announced that all passengers traveling from Trinidad and Tobago to Guyana who are not Guyanese nationals will now be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter Guyana, in addition to providing a negative COVID-19 PCR test result. The announcement came in the form of the publishing of an […]