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The National COVID-19 Task Force today announced its decision to extend the current curfew and health emergency measures until the 17th June as Guyana continues with its efforts to fight the spread of the coronavirus. There were calls for a full lockdown of the country but the Task Force decided against such a move. Under […]
Flamboyant Guyanese American businessman, Marcus Bisram, walked out of the Camp Street prison a free man this afternoon after High Court Judge, Simone Morris-Ramlall, ordered his release while dismissing the committal for him to stand trial for murder. Back in March, Bisram was set free after a Berbice Magistrate upheld the no-case submission by his […]
As Guyana prepares to begin accepting flights with Guyanese nationals who are stranded abroad, those nationals will be required to home quarantine for seven days, once they produce a negative COVID-19 test two days before their arrival and successfully pass the COVID-19 screening at the local airports when they arrive. The measure is applicable to […]
The Caribbean Examinations Council has released the timetables for this years CSEC and CAPE examinations. The CSEC exams will begin on the 13th July with the foreign languages and music. The exams will continue until the 4th of August. Unlike previous years and owing to the current COVID-19 measures, for many of the examinations, CXC […]
Of the active cases of the coronavirus disease in Guyana, at least fifteen are from the Region Seven mining community of Aranka. Aranka is close to the border with Venezuela and there has been growing concern in many of the bordering communities with Brazil and Venezuela about the possibility of imported cases because of persons […]
Guyana recorded no new case of the coronavirus from 40 tests completed in the past 24 hours. There are however 71 active cases with 70 recoveries and the number of deaths remains at 12. According to the Director of Primary Health Care, Dr. Ertensia Hamilton, Coronavirus cases have been recorded in seven of Guyana’s ten […]
The recount of votes has been completed for seven of the ten regions with just Regions 4, 6, and 10 having their votes still being counted. During an afternoon briefing outside the Arthur Chung Convention Centre today, Public Relations Officer for GECOM, Yolanda Ward also revealed that five of the twelve workstations being used for […]
Guyana’s Commissioner of Police and Chief Immigration Officer, Leslie James has responded to a letter from the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission and has indicated that based on a list of persons sent to him by her, 172 of the 207 persons on the list were out of Guyana on elections day, based on […]
Police investigators in Berbice have arrested a West Coast Berbice man for the murder of his own brother. 44-year-old Shieldstown village resident, Khemlall Bisnauth is accused of stabbing his 45-year-old brother, Saranandand Bisnauth to death over an argument over a plot of land. Moments before the incident, the two men were seen enjoying alcoholic drinks […]
Guyana recorded three new cases of the coronavirus over this past weekend. The total number of active cases now stands at 71. A total of 70 persons have now made full recoveries from the coronavirus while the total number of deaths still stands at 12. The latest death from the disease is a 78-year-old […]
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