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A 60-year-old gold miner who is originally from Turkeyen on the East Coast of Demerara is expected to be medevac to the city today from Region 8 after exhibiting symptoms of the coronavirus. According to information from the Police Commander in the area, at around 11:40 last evening, the miner turned up at the Mahdia […]
The Private Sector Commission which serves as a local observer group for the 2020 Elections, wants the Guyana Elections Commission to only recount the votes for Region 4 and not the other nine regions in its agreed recount process. On Friday, the Elections Commission decided to recount all of the votes cast in the elections […]
Hours after the Minister of Public Health revealed that there were eight persons in the special COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, one of the persons who was in a critical state succumbed to the respiratory disease. He has been identified by close friends as local drag-racer Deryc Jaisingh aka “Mad Dog”. He was well known at […]
There are now eight persons being housed in the coronavirus intensive care unit and one of those persons is in a critical condition. The development was announced today by Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence. It was also announced that the total number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Guyana now stands at 31, […]
With the Court of Appeal clearing the way for the Guyana Elections Commission to move ahead with its recount of votes from the 2nd March elections, the Commission met today and started to look at the modalities that will have to be put in place to facilitate the start of the recount. The Commission has […]
The Georgetown City Council has announced that Municipal Markets will be allowed to operate between the hours of 7 am and 2 pm daily in keeping with measures implemented by the Government to fight the coronavirus. Over the weekend, the markets were closed to facilitate further sanitizing by the City Council. Initially, the City Council […]
The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Guyana jumped to 29 last evening. In a late-night statement, the Ministry of Public Health also reported that 110 persons have now been tested. The total number of deaths remains at four. Over the past week, 21 new cases have been recorded and that figure […]
The Appeal Court of Guyana this morning essentially dismissed the appeal of a Full Court ruling that the High Court did not have jurisdiction to hear a judicial review case taken before it by private citizen and APNU+AFC Candidate Ulita Moore. While the Court dismissed most of the appeal about jurisdiction, it noted that the […]
The Guyana Civil Defence Commission will begin the distribution of relief hampers to citizens today as part of the government’s efforts to tackle the coronavirus by encouraging persons to stay home. The hampers will consist of food and cleaning essentials and the most vulnerable communities across the country will be targeted first. The Head of […]
Guyana entered a month’s long 6pm to 6am curfew on Friday with other measures aimed at reducing social gatherings as part of the efforts to fight the coronavirus. While many businesses made a decision to close up operations on their own, others have now been forced to follow the curfew order. Under the order, banks, […]
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