By News Source Guyana on January 10, 2022
News, Politics
Faced with reopened schools and an ongoing surge in new COVID-19 cases across the country, Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony today urged unvaccinated teachers and students between the ages of 12 and 17-years-old to get vaccinated. The Minister said parents should be encouraging their children to get vaccinated and teachers should get vaccinated too. […]
By News Source Guyana on January 10, 2022
News
An accident in North West District, Region One which involved an All-Terrain Vehicle has left a 28-year-old miner dead. A police report said the incident took place on Sunday evening. The dead man has been identified as Steve Ashby of Port Kaituma. According to the report, Ashby was the pillion rider on the ATV that […]
By News Source Guyana on January 10, 2022
News, Politics
A number of schools across the country have opted to put a pause on in-person classes this week as the number of positive COVID-19 cases in the country continues to climb. Queens College, which was set to begin its in-person classes in full today has informed parents that the virtual classes will continue this week […]
By News Source Guyana on January 10, 2022
News, Politics
There are now nearly 6000 active cases of COVID-19 in Guyana as the number of positive cases continues to soar. On Sunday, the Ministry of Health announced that 657 new cases of the virus had been recorded, which was coming 24 hours after another 1016 new cases were recorded. Region Four continues to see the […]
By News Source Guyana on January 7, 2022
News
Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh has assured that no money will be withdrawn from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) without Parliamentary approval. A release from the Ministry said the Finance Minister made this clarification on the sidelines of Budget 2022 meetings and preparation. Budget 2022 is expected to be presented to the National Assembly […]
By News Source Guyana on January 7, 2022
Crime, News
The Venezuelan man who is accused of beating a Venezuelan miner to death during a row over raw gold was charged today with murder and remanded to jail. 21-year-old, Osorio Dominguez of Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela appeared before Senior Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus today and was not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder […]
By News Source Guyana on January 7, 2022
News, Politics
Region 4 Chairman Daniel Seeram and Opposition Member of Parliament Roysdale Forde are among the members of the People’s National Congress Reform who will be added to the party’s Central Executive Committee. Both Seeram and Forde ran for executive positions at the party’s recent elections and lost their bids. However, the party’s constitution allows the […]
By News Source Guyana on January 7, 2022
Crime, News
A post-mortem examination that was conducted on the bodies of husband and wife, Nicholas and Elisabeth Low-A-Chee has confirmed that they both died from the gunshot wounds that were discovered on their bodies. The Guyana Police Force revealed today that the wife was shot to the head and abdomen while the husband was shot just […]
By News Source Guyana on January 7, 2022
Elections, News, Politics
The new Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Aubrey Norton, has written to former Party Leader David Granger requesting that he surrenders the position of leader of the list for the APNU+AFC. The leader of the list has the power to make changes to the party’s parliamentary representatives. It is unclear whether Granger has […]
By News Source Guyana on January 7, 2022
News, Politics
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Guyana has jumped to 4,295 with 847 of those cases recorded in the past 24hrs. The Ministry of Health has also recorded two additional deaths from the virus. More than half of the new cases are young people between the ages of 25 and 39-years-old. It was also […]