Another person has died from COVID-19, taking Guyana’s death toll to 207, the Ministry of Health revealed on Saturday. The latest fatality is a 71-year-old male from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) who died while receiving care at a medical facility on Saturday. This is the tenth person to have died this month. The ministry is also…
The former Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the Lands and Surveys Commission Trevor Benn was today charged for misconduct in public office relating to the sale of Government land at Ogle to an investor while he served as the Head of the Lands and Surveys Commission. He was released on $200,000 bail. When Benn…
–plans to hire over 40 Guyanese WITH services ranging from the supply of equipment needed to service the petroleum sector to consultancy and strategic planning, Vitality Inc., through an investment of US$10 million (approximately G$2 billion), will be looking to position itself to not just tap opportunities in the burgeoning oil-and-gas sector, but to also…
Under the theme ‘Operation RESCUE’, aspiring Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Anand Sanasie and his running mate Calvin Hope on Friday made public their manifesto ahead of the March 28 elections of the regional governing body for the sport. Sanasie and Hope are both Directors of CWI; Businessman Sanasie is the current Secretary of the…
An 11-year-old boy was shot dead by bandits in C’ Field, Sophia today during a robbery. The child has been identified as Anthony Cort. A Police report said the boy and his mother were at the home of a businesswoman when two armed men invaded the property. The boy was in the upper flat of…
–in just two months; over 5,000 hectares harvested so far ONE of Guyana’s most lucrative traditional sectors, rice, continues to show positive prospects for the nation, raking in over US$13 million (G$2B) in just two months. The rice sector has earned exactly US$13,497,660 from the exportation of some 28,936 tonnes of paddy, rice, and rice…
(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said her Government received 5 000 doses of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines from Guyana yesterday and expects 33 600 through the COVAX Facility soon. Mottley, who was speaking during a live press conference on the management of COVID-19, said this would allow Government to continue its National COVID-19 Vaccination…
With schools across the country still closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Education plans to move ahead with the sitting of the National Grade Six Assessment Examinations this year. Education Priya Manickchand announced this morning that the NGSA exams will take place on the 4th and 5th of August. The…
— as local measures ‘mask’ communities from deadly virus IT is just after the crack of dawn on Monday morning. Dorothy James, an elderly guest house proprietor in the indigenous community of Aishalton, is busy preparing breakfast. For her guests, she prepares a jug of juice using fresh oranges that she grew in her garden.…
By Isanella Patoir March 11, 2021, marks exactly one year since Guyana recorded its first COVID-19 case and death. To date, 205 persons have died of the 8,928 who have tested positive while a total of 8, 211 have recovered. With a rush of vaccines into the country now, could this be the beginning of…
