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The General Council of the Guyana Teachers Union is to meet this Friday to discuss the union’s official position on the decision by the Ministry of Education and the Caribbean Examinations Council to move ahead with Common Entrance and CSEC Exams in the month of July. GTU President Mark Lyte explained this afternoon that the […]
The Commissioner of Police, who is also the Chief Immigration Officer, is standing by the information provided to the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission on persons who were out of the country on Elections day. In response to a Kaieteur News article that sought to discredit the information provided by the Immigration Department to […]
The Public Health Ministry revealed this afternoon that for the 2nd straight day, there were no new cases of the coronavirus recorded in Guyana. Fourteen tests were completed over the past 24hrs and all 14 of those tests returned a negative result. The total number of active cases remains 71 with two of those persons […]
The Ministry of Education has decided that the National Grade Six Assessment Examinations, popularly known as common entrance, will take place on the 1st and 2nd July, senior Education officials have confirmed to News Source. The examinations were originally scheduled for the 8th and 9th April but were canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. As […]
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 […]
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