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The government is assessing new ways to increase vaccination, while cautiously reopening, according to President Irfaan Ali. Among the proposals being examined is for social gatherings and special venues to only allow fully vaccinated persons. “So, if you want to go to Palm Court, you want to go to the movies, you want to go […]
General Secretary of the Alliance for Change (AFC) David Patterson has announced that the party is gearing up to host its biennial delegates congress to elect new leadership. The last AFC congress was held in July 2019 and was slated to be hosted at the end of this month. However, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Leader of the People’s National Congress David Granger fired back today at party members who have publicly criticized him declaring that internal elections are not won by destroying the party. Appearing on his weekly programme, “The Public Interest”, Mr. Granger said there seems to be an attempt by a small group within the party to […]
Education Minister Priya Manickchand is encouraging parents to get vaccinated, which she believes could lead to the safe reopening of schools. Schools across Guyana have been closed for over a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the distribution of the cash grant for public school students in Linden on Thursday, Minister Manickchand made it […]
The Ministry of Health recorded three more COVID-19 related deaths yesterday with one of the latest victims being a 38-year-old man. With Guyana still to confirm the presence of the fast-spreading Delta variant of the virus being here, the number of new infections continues to rise. 74 new cases of the virus were recorded yesterday […]
The Regional Executive Officer for Region 9, Karl Singh, remains in Police custody over the shooting of a woman in his car. Singh is accused of shooting the woman to her abdomen around midnight on Tuesday in the Lethem business district. The woman has been hospitalised in a serious condition. Details of the shooting incident […]
The Guyana Teachers Union is not taking kindly to recent statements by the Minister of Education Priya Manickchand, who accused the union of behaving like a political entity because of its protest outside her office. She said the union will be treated as a political entity if that’s how it wants to behave. GTU President […]
The Ministry of Health has once again found itself in the spot of running out of 2nd dose shots of the Sputnik coronavirus vaccine. The recent shipment of 2nd dose shots was a small quantity. Only 5000 shots arrived and were administered within days across the country. Some regions complained about the small number of […]
An 18-year-old Corentyne man is nursing multiple chop wounds to his body after he was reportedly caught in a duck pen with five ducklings valued at $5000 in a shopping bag. The farmer who owns the ducks has been taken into custody after admitting to chopping the teen. But the farmer has claimed that it […]
Police investigators in Region 9 are probing the death of a 31-year-old teacher whose body was found in his South Pakaraimas home three days ago. It is suspected that the teacher, Peter Christian, was murdered as several marks of violence were found on his body. The man’s father claims that earlier in the same day […]
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