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With a growing number of private companies demanding that their workers be fully vaccinated or present negative COVID-19 PCR tests at their own costs, the Minister of Labour today said he is consulting with his legal department on the issue. Minister Joe Hamilton in an interview with News Source this afternoon reminded that it is […]
An Essequibo Coast family has been left devastated by the death of a one-year-old toddler. The young child identified as Jeremiah Norton, was discovered dead in a fish pond which is located close to the family’s home on Tuesday. A Police statement said the child’s mother, Elizabeth Henry, related to investigators that she left the […]
Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony today expressed his support for those private businesses that are mandating staff members to get vaccinated or face regular COVID-19 testing. During his daily COVID-19 update, the Health Minister said that while there has been no confirmation of the new COVID-19 variants being present in Guyana, all of the signs […]
The United Kingdom has announced the donation of 84,800 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Guyana as part of the global assistance to fight COVID-19. In a statement, the British High Commission in Georgetown said the country’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced that the UK will be sending the AstraZeneca shots to Guyana as […]
Attorney General Anil Nandlall has asked the High Court to remove President Irfaan Ali as a respondent in the matter filed by the Police Service Commission over the suspension of the Commission and the promotion of Police Officers. The Attorney General believes that having President Ali in the proceedings is in contravention of the Constitution. […]
The ExxonMobil company announced another major oil find in Guyana. In a statement this morning, Exxon announced that the discovery was made at Whiptail in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. According to Exxon, the Whiptail-1 well encountered 246 feet (75 meters) of net pay in high-quality oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs. The Whiptail discovery is located approximately […]
Guyana’s Minister of Works Juan Edghill who overlooks the aviation sector has defended the Government’s decision to put a vaccination requirement in place for non-Guyanese nationals traveling to Guyana from Trinidad and Tobago. The requirement does not exist for persons coming from any other country. Speaking to News Source on Tuesday, Minister Edghill said Trinidad […]
The Giftland Mall has announced that all staffers of Giftland Officemax who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 will have to submit a negative COVID-19 PCR test result at the beginning of every week and they will have to stand the costs for those PCR tests. It is not clear whether the company is instituting […]
Leader of the Alliance for Change and Opposition Member of Parliament Khemraj Ramjattan today said the Speaker was wrong when he sought the advice of Attorney General, Anil Nandlall on the three no-confidence motions submitted to him. Two of the motions are against two senior Government ministers while the third was filed by the Government […]
Family members of the Providence woman, Patricia Dhanraj who was arrested after the stabbing death of her common-law husband during a fight, are standing at her side. The woman’s family believes that she should not face any criminal charges since she was defending herself after years of physical abuse at the hands of the now-dead […]
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