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Friday, March 29, 2024

All persons travelling from China now need negative Covid test to enter Guyana

COVID-19 TRAVEL ADVISORY TO GUYANA (1 of 2023) dated 5th JANUARY, 2023 Variants of the SARS-CoC-2 virus continue to emerge worldwide. In light of the...

Boa Vista records 1st suspected case of monkey pox

Boa Vista Municipal Health Department (SMSA) on Wednesday reported that a 44-year-old man is the first patient with suspected condition for smallpox of monkeys...

11 new Covid deaths take toll to 1,122

The Ministry of Health has announced that as of January 21st, 2022, eleven more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have...

$205.8M Japanese grant to boost COVID-19 fight

Guyana’s ability to fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) will be boosted with a $205.8 million (US $1,029,000) grant from the Government of Japan. This was disclosed...

88 new COVID-19 cases detected

An additional 88 persons have contracted COVID-19 in Guyana, taking the country's total number of cases to 3,093. Of these, however, only 1,087 are active...

COVID-19 patient shares near death experience

As COVID-19 confirmed cases continue to increase, the Ministry of Public Health is exploring avenues to teach Guyanese of the harmful effects of the...

14 parliamentary staff test positive for Covid-19

Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir has announced that 14 parliamentary employees have tested positive for Covid-19. This announcement was made at the start...

99 new COVID-19 cases recorded

A whopping 99 new COVID-19 cases were detected in the last 24 hours. This now takes the total number of confirmed cases in Guyana to...

Govt making provisions for possible closure of National Psychiatric Hospital

The government is making provision for the possible closure of the National Psychiatric Hospital in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne). Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony...

Visitation ban to be lifted at Infectious Diseases Hospital

The Health Ministry will be lifting the visitation restrictions in place at the Infectious Diseases Hospital as early as next week. Speaking during today’s COVID-19...

Recent Articles

18 areas earmarked for new housing developments

The government has revealed a comprehensive strategy aimed at further reducing the backlog of house lots within the Ministry of Housing and Water’s database. Minister...

Legal icon Justice (rtd.) Désirée Bernard dies

Former Chancellor of the Judiciary of Guyana Justice Désirée Bernard has died. Justice Bernard’s biography is chronicled on the CCJ’s website. It states that she...

Traffic Advisory for Easter Monday

Traffic Advisory from the Guyana Police Force: Be informed that in on Monday 1st April, 2024 Easter activities will be celebrated country wide with an...

UK donates drone to GMCS for mangrove monitoring

A group of young indigenous girls and boys are being trained to champion conservation efforts in the Barima Mora Passage. They are being trained...

Counselling, other support for families of girls that died in Massara

The government has pledged to provide counselling and other support that may be necessary to the families of the three young girls who lost...

Current dry spell to persist until end of April, desist from lighting fires –...

Public Advisory from the Ministry of Home Affairs:  In recent developments, there has been a significant decrease in visibility attributed to a combination of ground...

Death of GDF rank: Truck driver says highway was dark, soldiers were not wearing...

See full statement from the Guyana Police Force:  Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 21:00 hrs last night (Wednesday) at Madewini,...

Texas-based Lindsayca to work on petrochemical plant, refinery & oil block in Guyana

Texas-based oil and gas firm Lindsayca has revealed that it will be doing critical work on three major local initiatives: a petrochemical plant, as...

GDF rank struck, killed by truck during annual walk

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant was struck down and killed by a vehicle while participating in the Force’s annual walk. Dead is Sergeant Deslyn...

Guyana will aggressively pursue oil for national development – Pres Ali to BBC

  An interview between President Dr Irfaan Ali and Stephen Sackur, the host of BBC’s “HardTalk” show, saw the Head of State forced to defend...