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Since the first case of COVID-19 and related death was recorded in Guyana in 2020, the country has recorded a total of 1,278 deaths from the virus in the past two years. Of those deaths, the Ministry of Health has revealed that 741 of them were recorded at the Ocean View Hospital. Minister of Health […]
The Ocean View Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal which was established to treat and care for serious COVID-19 patients is now accepting other patients who are suffering from other infectious diseases. August marked two years since the hospital has been in operation. In the past two years, it has seen more than 4000 COVID-19 patients. […]
The APNU+AFC Opposition has filed a motion seeking an early hearing of its appeal to Chief Justice Roxane George’s decision that there is nothing unconstitutional about Section 22 of the Election Laws (Amendment) Act and Order 60 (Recount Order). The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) had relied on Order 60 and the Elections Laws (Amendment) Act […]
On Wednesday as the United Nations observed the International Day for People of African Descent, the Minister of Culture in Guyana, Charles Ramson Jr., dispatched a letter to the International Decade for People of African Descent General Assembly-Guyana, requesting the organisation’s financial records within five days. The organisation IDPADA-G has been receiving support funding from the Government of Guyana […]
Businessman Azruddin Mohamed has filed a $200 million lawsuit against Police Detective, Sergeant Dion Bascom over offending statements made by the Policeman in Facebook posts that allegedly linked the well-known businessman to a cover-up of the murder of biker, Ricardo Fagundes. Sergeant Bascom has 28 days to respond to the lawsuit. The businessman is claiming […]
The US Embassy in Georgetown today indicated that it continues to examine ways to creatively reduce the wait times for visa interviews. The statement came in response to queries from News Source Guyana about the long wait times that continue for visa interviews for non-immigrant visitors visa. In its response to News Source, the embassy […]
Explaining that it wants to make home ownership easier for Guyanese, the New Building Society, (NBS) today announced that it will further reduce its mortgage interest rate with effect from the 1st September. Borrowers for loans from $ 1 million to $4 million will now pay 3.5% interest instead of 4% interest while those borrowing […]
The Alliance For Change (AFC) has not yet determined whether it will contest the upcoming Local Government Elections with its coalition partner, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), according to its Chairman, Cathy Hughes. “We really haven’t reached that point yet,” Hughes told reporters when questioned on the matter during an AFC press conference last […]
The Government through the Attorney General Anil Nandlall, has asked the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to hand over all documents supplied by A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) in the support of its claims that the Elections were marred as a result of electoral fraud. Throughout the course of the National […]
The Members of the Natural Resource Fund Board as well as the Public Accountability and Oversight Committee of the Board and the Investment Committee were formally appointed today with President Irfaan Ali expressing full confidence that those who have been selected will ensure that the country’s oil and gas resources are properly managed. The NRF […]
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