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Guyana may be facing a tougher battle in its fight against mental illness with the current state of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. That is the warning of the Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony. Speaking at a virtual training session for frontline workers, the Health Minister focused on mental health awareness during the COVID-19 […]
A total of 32 coronavirus related deaths have already been recorded since the start of October and the majority of the deaths were patients in the COVID-19 ICU at the Georgetown Hospital. The Health Ministry is still not providing details on the deaths other than the age of the persons and the Region where they […]
The Ministry of Housing’s two day event for the distribution of land titles and new house lot applications saw more than 600 first time applications being made for house lots. The new applications add to the more than 30,000 applications already on file in the housing system. Housing Minister Collin Croal has assured the new […]
With the state-owned sugar company, GUYSUCO, continuing to flood its lands at Success to get squatters off, the government has moved to set up sleeping facilities at an East Coast Primary School to house squatters who have been displaced. Many of the squatters have rejected the offer made by the Prime Minister for them to […]
Guyana recorded two more Coronavirus deaths on Sunday, taking the death toll to 111. The latest fatalities have been identified as a 78-year-old man from Region One and a 55-year-old man from Region Four. No other details were released on the two deaths. The country has also recorded 24 new cases as of Saturday night […]
Leader of the Opposition Joe Harmon led an Opposition Parliamentary team to the community of Success on the East Coast of Demerara this morning to meet with squatters who are being flooded off state lands by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO). Mr. Harmon called out the government for its treatment of the squatters and made […]
While squatters are being flooded off of Guysuco lands at Success, President Irfaan Ali today called on those squatters to do the right thing, adding that squatter settlements are not sustainable. Speaking at the opening of a two-day event organised by the Ministry of Housing and Water for new house lot applicants and those receiving […]
The number of COVID-19 deaths in Guyana climbed to 109 today as the Ministry of Health reported that a 71-year-old woman from Region Four and a 48-year-old man from Region One were the latest fatalities. The death toll has been climbing steadily in the past two and a half months. New cases have been climbing […]
A 46-year-old woman from here in Region Four became the country’s latest COVID-19 fatality when she passed away late yesterday. The woman’s death has taken Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll to 107. In its dashboard report, the Ministry of Health today reported 31 new cases. The total number of active cases now stands at 975 with […]
The Guyana Sugar Corporation continued the flooding of its lands at Success on the East Coast of Demerara this morning in its efforts to force squatters off. Despite many of the squatters pleading with the state-owned company, thousands of gallons of water was released on the lands this morning to destroy the small shacks that […]
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