AS the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) races to restore operations at its Garden of Eden power plant on the East Bank of Demerara, Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar, has disclosed that some 20 engineers from the Wartsila Corporation are currently working to rectify the issue that led to Friday night’s…
There are now more than 11,000 active cases across the country after hundreds of people are being infected with the novel coronavirus daily. Added to that, there have been at least 20 deaths reported over the past four days. Even so, however, Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony does not believe that the local health…
The number of active COVID-19 cases in the country continues to climb and has now become very worrying for Health officials. With 897 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours, the total number of positive COVID-19 cases in the country has jumped to 11, 494. The Minister of Health said that is the highest…
Fifteen children have lost their lives to COVID-19 in Guyana since the pandemic was first detected here almost two years ago. Four of the deaths were recorded less than a week ago and three of those children died before arriving at a Hospital. An investigation has been launched into the deaths, Health Minister Dr. Frank…
A late-night fire at two bonds at the GNIC shipping terminal and the Laparkan Shipping company’s facilities on Lombard Street has left hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and losses. Several imported vehicles are among the items that were badly damaged and destroyed by the blaze. The Guyana Revenue Authority will be assisting with…
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has joined the outpouring of sadness following the death of local business icon Dr. Yesu Persaud. The organisation has hailed Dr. Persaud as someone who possessed a myriad of outstanding qualities. See below full statement from GAWU: The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) was saddened…
A THREE-MONTH-OLD baby girl and a six-year-old girl are among nine more persons who have died after contracting COVID-19, taking Guyana’s overall death toll to 1,095, the Ministry of Health has reported. The latest fatalities are four persons from Region Three: a 72-year-old fully vaccinated woman who died on January 1; a 70-year-old unvaccinated man…
Opposition Member of Parliament Sherod Duncan was on Monday released on $200,000 bail for a cybercrime offence committed against Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) IT Manager, Aneal Giddings. He was charged under the Cybercrime Act 2018 – a legislation introduced and passed in the National Assembly by his own party, the APNU+AFC during its tenure in…
By Vanessa Cort LAST Monday evening I attended a small celebration to mark my friend Andre Wiltshire’s 20th drug-free year. As we chatted about what he termed the “insanity” of crack-cocaine use, Andre, an accomplished dramatist and actor, said that now he just feels “high on life” and the fact that he can “get up…
