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A 27-year-old driver from Goed Intent on the West Bank of Demerara has been charged and remanded to jail over the theft of blank COVID-19 vaccination booklets and other items. The man, Avinash Ramaherwar reportedly worked at the West Demerara Hospital as a driver and would be in charge of collecting the booklets and other […]
Education Minister Priya Manickchand has defended the government’s decision to reopen schools on the 6th September even as the country continues to experience a spike in the spread of COVID-19 with all indications pointing to the presence of the Delta variant of the virus. At an afternoon press conference with all of her senior Education […]
While all schools across the country will reopen on the 6th of September, students attending Secondary schools will only return to the classroom for face-to-face learning based on the rollout of the vaccination programme. The Government has started the vaccination against COVID-19 for children who are 12-years-old and older. There are 58,000 students who fall […]
With unvaccinated healthcare workers being locked out from their workplaces at the public hospitals, the Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony said those who are absent from their jobs will face a cut to their salaries for the absent days. He said the workers can either get vaccinated or provide a negative COVID-19 test result. […]
The APNU+AFC Region 4 Councillors who are members of the Alliance For Change have filed notices of no-confidence motions against the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Region 4, who are both members of the APNU. In a statement last evening, the AFC said the action was in direct response to what its Region 4 Councillors see […]
Vaccination sites for children above the age of 12 will be rolled out at a number of schools in the coming days. In addition, to the need for parental permission to be granted for a child to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the Education Ministry and the Health Ministry are now requiring a parent to accompany […]
While Guyana’s Ministry of Health is yet to confirm the presence of the highly contagious Delta variant of Coronavirus in the country, the Ministry of Health in neighboring Trinidad has reported that a passenger who arrived in the country from Guyana recently has tested positive for the Delta variant. The person is now in isolation […]
Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony said the COVID-19 situation in Guyana is worrying with the trend of positive cases in the past few days. Guyana has recorded close to 1000 new cases of COVID-19 in the past week alone and more persons are being hospitalised. During his Covid-19 update today, Dr. Anthony said over the […]
The Guyana Public Service Union is taking the Government to task over its vaccination policy, which led this morning to the locking out of unvaccinated health workers at the public hospitals in Georgetown and Linden. Public Health workers in Guyana are represented by the Guyana Public Service Union. The union has made it clear that […]
Scores of medical and other staff members attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital were prevented from entering the hospital’s compound this morning because of their unvaccinated status. The Georgetown Public Hospital is the country’s largest hospital and health emergency centre. In a memo to staffers earlier this week, the management at the Hospital informed them […]
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