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The Guyana Public Service Union today signaled its intention to take the Government to Court over the ongoing lockout of unvaccinated healthcare workers from their jobs at the public hospitals. The public hospitals have issued a directive to staff members that they must either be vaccinated against COVID-19 or produce a negative COVID-19 test result […]
Oral arguments got underway this afternoon in the High Court in the application filed by Attorney General Anil Nandall to strike out President Ali from legal proceedings brought by the Police Service Commission, lawyers from the two sides maintained their differing views. During his arguments, the Attorney General said the Police Service Commission’s naming of […]
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 […]
Opposition Leader Joe Harmon has poured cold water on the two no-confidence motions brought by members of the Alliance For Change against the Chairman and Vice Chairman of Region Four, who are both APNU members. The motions filed by the AFC members are seeking to remove their coalition partners, Chairman, Daniel Seeram and Vice-Chairman, Samuel […]
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 […]
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