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The Ministry of Housing and its Central Housing and Planning Authority will be moving to construct 500 low-cost homes at Plantation Golden Grove on the East Bank of Demerara. The announcement was made today by Housing Minister Collin Croal as he distributed house lots and land titles at the National Stadium for areas along the […]
The Leader of the Liberty and Justice Party and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Lennox Shuman has issued a call on the Government to only provide its cash grant for children to fully vaccinated parents. In a statement on his Facebook page, Mr. Shuman is also recommending that house lots only be provided to […]
Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony has announced that his Ministry will continue its nationwide inoculation of persons who have already received a first shot of the Sputnik vaccine from tomorrow. A total of 10,000 2nd dose shots arrived in the country this morning and will cater for the remaining persons who received the first shot […]
The Government of Guyana has announced that all passengers traveling from Trinidad and Tobago to Guyana who are not Guyanese nationals will now be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter Guyana, in addition to providing a negative COVID-19 PCR test result. The announcement came in the form of the publishing of an […]
The Coronavirus death toll in Guyana has reached 527. The Ministry of Health reported 9 additional deaths over the weekend. The majority of deaths were recorded in Region 4. The death toll for the month of July has now climbed to 51. Meanwhile, the number of new cases of the virus continues to climb. The […]
General Secretary of the Alliance for Change (AFC) David Patterson has announced that the party is gearing up to host its biennial delegates congress to elect new leadership. The last AFC congress was held in July 2019 and was slated to be hosted at the end of this month. However, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Leader of the People’s National Congress David Granger fired back today at party members who have publicly criticized him declaring that internal elections are not won by destroying the party. Appearing on his weekly programme, “The Public Interest”, Mr. Granger said there seems to be an attempt by a small group within the party to […]
Education Minister Priya Manickchand is encouraging parents to get vaccinated, which she believes could lead to the safe reopening of schools. Schools across Guyana have been closed for over a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the distribution of the cash grant for public school students in Linden on Thursday, Minister Manickchand made it […]
The Ministry of Health recorded three more COVID-19 related deaths yesterday with one of the latest victims being a 38-year-old man. With Guyana still to confirm the presence of the fast-spreading Delta variant of the virus being here, the number of new infections continues to rise. 74 new cases of the virus were recorded yesterday […]
The Guyana Teachers Union is not taking kindly to recent statements by the Minister of Education Priya Manickchand, who accused the union of behaving like a political entity because of its protest outside her office. She said the union will be treated as a political entity if that’s how it wants to behave. GTU President […]
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