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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 […]
The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education will roll out the vaccination programme for children 12 years and over this morning as the government prepares to reopen schools on the 6th September. According to the Ministry of Education, it has already received permission from parents for the vaccination of 4000 children. There are […]
Leader of the Opposition Joe Harmon has dismissed the letter sent by the Guyana Government to the US Congress and Diplomatic and International communities complaining about a recent anti-racism protest by Guyanese in New York. In response to the letter signed by Governance Minister Gail Teixeira, the Opposition Leader said the Government can make all […]
Four Venezuelan nationals along with one Guyanese were today charged and remanded to jail for the murder of a mining camp manager and his security at Blackwater backdam in the Region 7 area. The two men, Suresh Bachan and Steven Niles were hacked to death in their sleep between the 4th and 5th of August. […]
Two protests in two different parts of the country took place today against what is being seen as the Government’s policy to “force” persons to get vaccinated. At the Square of the Revolution in Georgetown, scores of persons gathered with placards to make known their disagreement with the Government’s vaccination policy which sees persons wanting […]
Applicants for US immigrant visas and people seeking refugee status or medical attention in the United States will from the 1st October 2021, be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The US Centre for Disease Control has informed the various embassies of the new regulation. Persons being processed for a US Immigrant visa, commonly referred […]
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