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Opposition Leader Joe Harmon has written to the Prime Minister requesting the immediate removal of businessman Roshan Khan as a member of the Ethnic Relations Commission. Khan who has been serving on the ERC since 2018 has been making a number of racially insensitive statements on Facebook over the past few weeks, triggering widespread condemnation. […]
Local and regional mobile service operator, Digicel, has welcomed the government’s announcement of the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector in Guyana. Digicel, which has been pushing for a liberalised sector since it entered the market more than a decade ago, believes the move is coming at a right time, as Guyana prepares for unprecedented growth […]
Three persons lost their lives to the coronavirus disease in Guyana on Monday, taking the total number of deaths to 93. A 38-year-old man, a 55-year-old retired male nurse and an 84-year-old woman were identified as the three latest fatalities. They were all from the Region 4 area. The male nurse only retired from the […]
In a late night address to the nation, Prime Minister Mark Phillips formally announced the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector with the Commencement Orders being issued which will fully bring into force the Telecommunications Act 2016 (the “Act”) and the Public Utilities Commission Act 2016. The Prime Minister said “the commencement of these Acts is […]
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs under the PPP Civic government, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has officially taken up the office as Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Ms. Rodrigues-Birkett will be based at the Guyana UN Mission Office in New York. Just after the 2015 elections, the former Minister left Guyana and took up a job […]
With an ultimatum about to expire for the beginning of talks to address the concerns of healthcare workers, the opposition is warning the government that now is not the time to go to war with the nurses and doctors in Guyana. The APNU+AFC today said it was horrified by the “abhorrent and disgusting threats” issued […]
The Government of Guyana through the Ministry of Home Affairs has rehired former Head of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit, James Singh to once again serve in that position. Singh was removed from the position in 2017 under the last government following a Commission of Inquiry into the release of a drug boat and its […]
The number of Coronavirus deaths in the country jumped to 92 this afternoon as the Ministry of Health reported on the death of a 38-year-old Region Four man. Another death was recorded early this morning in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit and five other deaths were recorded this past weekend. Since the start of October, […]
Several nurses stayed away from their jobs today while other picketed outside the hospital, pressing the hospital’s management and the government to address their concerns about risk allowances, improved salaries, and adequate protective gear. With the government giving no indication of its next move, the Hospital has started preparations for any widespread strike that it […]
The nursing fraternity at the Georgetown Hospital has been plunged into mourning with the passing of a beloved male nurse who retired just two months ago. 55-year-old Mark King passed away early this morning in the Coronavirus Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital. He was a patient in the COVID-ICU for the past ten […]
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