Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence today confirmed three positive cases of COVID-19(coronavirus) bringing the total number to date to four. According to the ministry’s statement,the three patients who have tested most recently positive have been identified as the husband of a 52-year old woman who died from the virus earlier this week, one of

Minister of Public Health  Volda Lawrence Saturday confirmed three positive cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number to date to four. The three patients who have tested most recently positive have been identified as the husband of the 52-year old woman who died from the virus earlier this week, one of her children and another…

President David Granger convened a meeting of several government officials this morning to finalise the government’s action plan in wake of the first case of the coronavirus being confirmed in Guyana. Though details of the meeting were not forthcoming, the Ministry of Education has since announced the closure of schools for two weeks, beginning on…

A 27-year-old Lethem man died on Thursday after a tree fell in the mining pit he and others were working in at Kumung Backdam, Region Seven. According to reports, Carlson Moses and another man went to visit a friend at another mining camp and later, he decided to ‘jet’ in a mining pit at the

President David Granger, this afternoon, convened a meeting of ministers to better coordinate Government’s action plan in response to the presence of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Guyana. A ministerial task force headed by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and including Minister of Public Health, Ms. Volda Lawrence; Minister of Education, Dr. Nicolette Henry; Minister of…

Days after the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that he had discussions about the election situation in Guyana with the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, the Acting Assistant US Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Michael Kozak, issued a warning on Twitter for Guyana. “Under U.S. law and practice those who participate…

…CAL quarantines crew of flight on which Guyanese woman travelled …Balwant Singh Hospital quarantine’s staff who treated woman before she went to GPHC Trinidad and Tobago has recorded its first case of the Coronavirus, government officials reported today. The patient, a male, travelled to the twin-island republic from Switzerland, officials noted at a press briefing

By Akeem Greene Guyana Jaguars are slightly in a position of comfort in the top-of-the table clash, compliments of their menacing seamers who managed to restrict Barbados Pride to 174 in their Regional Four-Day match at the National Stadium, Providence, Thursday. Pride’s fast men struck back by the close, leaving Jaguars 19-2, still trailing by 155…

Over 14 Doctors and Nurses at the Georgetown Hospital have been ordered into self-quarantine following the death of a 52-year-old woman at the hospital. They will remain quarantined for 14 days in keeping with the protocols of the World Health Organisation. Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence this morning confirmed the quarantine of the health workers…

Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Cuban national, Lopez Perez Jair, who is  is wanted by for questioning in relation to murder committed on Marva Oudkerk at at Bourda Street, Lacytown, Georgetown back in October last year. Oudkerk,67, was the caretaker of a home at Lot 241 Bourda Street.The woman was killed sometime between 16:30hrs on October 9