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Friday, March 29, 2024

Blackout delays COVID-19 testing

A prolonged period of power outage has resulted in the Ministry of Public Health not being able to provide an update on the COVID-19...

COVID-19 screening & testing unit established at Buck Hall

A COVID-19 screening and testing unit has been established at Buck Hall in the Essequibo Islands. Buck Hall is the main access point to several...

Family suspicious of COVID-19 diagnosis, accuses GPHC of covering up death of 76-Y-O woman

By: Shemar Alleyne Family members believe 76-year-old May Portsmouth - who has been recorded as the country's latest COVID-19 death - died as a result...

Coronavirus: WHO rethinking how Covid-19 spreads in air

(BBC) The World Health Organization has acknowledged there is emerging evidence that the coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air. The...

7 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Region One

The upward trend continues for Guyana’s COVID-19 curve, with the detection of seven new cases on Tuesday – all of which were from the...

Lethem man demands full probe into how his wife contracted COVID-19 and died at...

By: Shemar Alleyne Franklin Greaves is demanding answers into how his wife, Donna Greaves contracted COVID-19 and died whilst receiving medical attention at the Georgetown...

Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for coronavirus. He took the test, his fourth, on Monday after developing symptoms, including a high temperature. Mr...

UK: Majority testing positive for COVID-19 have no symptoms

(BBC) Only 22% of people testing positive for coronavirus reported having symptoms on the day of their test, according to the Office for National...

Guyana records 16th COVID-19 death

The Ministry of Public Health this evening confirmed Guyana’s 16th COVID-19 related death. According to the Ministry, the person is a 76-year-old female, May Portsmouth,...

WHO: Access to HIV medicines severely impacted by COVID-19 as AIDS response stalls

Seventy-three countries have warned that they are at risk of stock-outs of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to...

Recent Articles

“Gunbutt” shot by armed men who took advantage of stepson

An investigation has been launched into a shooting incident involving 41-year-old Calvin Johnson, called “Gunbutt”, of East Ruimveldt Trench Road in Georgetown. That incident reportedly...

Man chops reputed wife after threatened with eviction

Overseas-based Guyanese Deomattie Rampersaud of Highbury Village, East Bank Berbice (Region Six: East Berbice-Corentyne) is now a patient of the New Amsterdam Hospital after...

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...