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Nine more COVID-19 deaths recorded by the Ministry of Health have pushed Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll to 683. A total of 58 deaths were recorded within the first 12 days of September. The number of new cases continues to climb steadily with 194 new cases recorded as of Saturday, taking the total number of active […]
Police investigators in Region Seven are probing the brutal killing of a 34-year-old gold miner from Grove, East Bank Demerara. The dead man has been identified as Marlon Carter. His lifeless and mutilated body was discovered on Saturday afternoon on the bank of the river at Quartzstone landing. The Police said the body bore several […]
The Ministry of Health today reported 10 more COVID-19 related deaths, pushing the total number of deaths recorded since the start of September to 44. Of the ten most recent deaths, eight are from Region Four. The country’s death toll from the virus has now reached 669. The Ministry of Health also recorded another 218 […]
The family of a 56-year-old nurse who died recently at the Lilliendaal COVID-19 Hospital after testing positive for Coronavirus wants a full investigation into the operations of the health institution and the way patients are being treated there. Nurse Vanessa Maynard who worked at a private hospital in Georgetown, passed away yesterday after more than […]
Close to two months after a South Rumiveldt youth was gunned down in Linden after arriving in the town to meet a lady friend, a miner from the community has been charged and remanded to jail over the murder. The accused 26-year-old, Samorea Mitchell appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning and was not […]
As the Government forges ahead with its vaccination policy, it continues to dodge questions surrounding the unavailability of Sputnik 2nd dose vaccines to complete the full vaccination of persons who have already received the first dose. Although it paid more than the suggested price for the Sputnik vaccines in advance through the services of a […]
A 36-year-old miner who recently returned from the interior to his East Bank Demerara home to register his newborn baby was stabbed to death during a robbery attack on Thursday evening. The dead man has been identified as Nelson Thomas. A police report on the incident stated that after returning from the interior yesterday midday, […]
Declaring that “all congregants must be vaccinated” to attend in-person services, the Executive of the Assemblies of God Churches in Guyana is recommending that all of its churches follow the Government COVID-19 vaccination guideline, even while it holds the position that it will not coerce anyone into making decisions about the vaccine. In a communique […]
The protest by teachers against the Government’s vaccination policy continued this morning outside the Ministry of Education. Teachers from around Georgetown were supported by teachers from Linden and Berbice who traveled to the city to join the demonstrations. The Government’s only statement since the three-day strike action was called two days ago was that the […]
With no slowing down in the increase in new COVID-19 cases and the clear presence of the faster spreading Delta variant, the APNU+AFC Opposition has issued a call on the Government to commence an aggressive countrywide campaign to faster determine the COVID-19 hotspots and implement relevant measures in those areas to slow the spread. APNU+AFC […]
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