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An 18-year-old man from Lethem is nursing stab wounds to both of his arms after he was attacked by his 20-year-old girlfriend when he told her he wanted to end their relationship. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon in the Region 9 community. According to a Police report, the 18-year-old youth, Brandon Bailey returned home yesterday […]
The Coronavirus death toll in Guyana has reached 527. The Ministry of Health reported 9 additional deaths over the weekend. The majority of deaths were recorded in Region 4. The death toll for the month of July has now climbed to 51. Meanwhile, the number of new cases of the virus continues to climb. The […]
Almost two months after they were remanded to jail on cocaine trafficking charges, the two Brazilian pilots who were busted with a plane packed with cocaine have been granted bail in the sum of $3 Million each. Back in May, the two men Andre Perreira and Salim De Almiser were arrested after they made an […]
The government is assessing new ways to increase vaccination, while cautiously reopening, according to President Irfaan Ali. Among the proposals being examined is for social gatherings and special venues to only allow fully vaccinated persons. “So, if you want to go to Palm Court, you want to go to the movies, you want to go […]
General Secretary of the Alliance for Change (AFC) David Patterson has announced that the party is gearing up to host its biennial delegates congress to elect new leadership. The last AFC congress was held in July 2019 and was slated to be hosted at the end of this month. However, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Leader of the People’s National Congress David Granger fired back today at party members who have publicly criticized him declaring that internal elections are not won by destroying the party. Appearing on his weekly programme, “The Public Interest”, Mr. Granger said there seems to be an attempt by a small group within the party to […]
Education Minister Priya Manickchand is encouraging parents to get vaccinated, which she believes could lead to the safe reopening of schools. Schools across Guyana have been closed for over a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the distribution of the cash grant for public school students in Linden on Thursday, Minister Manickchand made it […]
The Ministry of Health recorded three more COVID-19 related deaths yesterday with one of the latest victims being a 38-year-old man. With Guyana still to confirm the presence of the fast-spreading Delta variant of the virus being here, the number of new infections continues to rise. 74 new cases of the virus were recorded yesterday […]
The Regional Executive Officer for Region 9, Karl Singh, remains in Police custody over the shooting of a woman in his car. Singh is accused of shooting the woman to her abdomen around midnight on Tuesday in the Lethem business district. The woman has been hospitalised in a serious condition. Details of the shooting incident […]
The Guyana Teachers Union is not taking kindly to recent statements by the Minister of Education Priya Manickchand, who accused the union of behaving like a political entity because of its protest outside her office. She said the union will be treated as a political entity if that’s how it wants to behave. GTU President […]
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