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A well-loved and respected religious leader in the Berbice area, Pandit Rishi Bharrat was beaten to death on Saturday night after asking a group of men who were gathered outside his yard to lower their music. Police Commander in the Berbice area, Senior Superintendent Jairam Ramlakhan told News Source this morning that 10 suspects have […]
A joint operation between the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit and the Guyana Police Force has resulted in the seizure of 540 pounds of marijuana and the arrest of two suspects. Details on the identity of the two suspects have not been released. The bust took place on Friday in Campbell Avenue in Georgetown. A report […]
An accident at the Buckhall facility of the Aurora Gold Mines company has resulted in the death of a Security official attached to the company. Dead is Gordon Mansfield who is also a retired Police Prosecutor. The accident occurred on Thursday along a trail. Initial reports suggest that the driver of the vehicle lost control […]
A 27-year-old driver from Goed Intent on the West Bank of Demerara has been charged and remanded to jail over the theft of blank COVID-19 vaccination booklets and other items. The man, Avinash Ramaherwar reportedly worked at the West Demerara Hospital as a driver and would be in charge of collecting the booklets and other […]
Education Minister Priya Manickchand has defended the government’s decision to reopen schools on the 6th September even as the country continues to experience a spike in the spread of COVID-19 with all indications pointing to the presence of the Delta variant of the virus. At an afternoon press conference with all of her senior Education […]
While all schools across the country will reopen on the 6th of September, students attending Secondary schools will only return to the classroom for face-to-face learning based on the rollout of the vaccination programme. The Government has started the vaccination against COVID-19 for children who are 12-years-old and older. There are 58,000 students who fall […]
Opposition Leader Joe Harmon has poured cold water on the two no-confidence motions brought by members of the Alliance For Change against the Chairman and Vice Chairman of Region Four, who are both APNU members. The motions filed by the AFC members are seeking to remove their coalition partners, Chairman, Daniel Seeram and Vice-Chairman, Samuel […]
With unvaccinated healthcare workers being locked out from their workplaces at the public hospitals, the Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony said those who are absent from their jobs will face a cut to their salaries for the absent days. He said the workers can either get vaccinated or provide a negative COVID-19 test result. […]
The APNU+AFC Region 4 Councillors who are members of the Alliance For Change have filed notices of no-confidence motions against the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Region 4, who are both members of the APNU. In a statement last evening, the AFC said the action was in direct response to what its Region 4 Councillors see […]
Vaccination sites for children above the age of 12 will be rolled out at a number of schools in the coming days. In addition, to the need for parental permission to be granted for a child to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the Education Ministry and the Health Ministry are now requiring a parent to accompany […]
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