Following days of debate and the consideration of estimates, the 2022 Budget of $552.9 billion was passed yesterday by the National Assembly and it also approved the amount of $129.6 billion to be withdrawn from the country’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF) to help fund the expenditure.
The Ministry of Health will no longer be issuing discharge certificates for persons who were on home isolation after testing positive for COVID-19 and PCR tests will now be used only for a small category of persons.
With fully-vaccinated persons making up almost 40% of COVID-19 deaths for the month, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony has said comorbidities and waning immunity may be among the responsible factors.
The sum of $434 million was yesterday approved for the procurement of more tractors for the development of projects in Amerindian communities after some questioning by Parliament’s Committee of Supply.
SBM Offshore Guyana, a key ExxonMobil contractor, yesterday celebrated its fifth anniversary of operations here and officially opened its new head office.
The family of Elsa Simpson, a 76-year-old No. 1 Village, Corentyne woman who succumbed at the Infectious Disease Hospital at Liliendaal last Friday, is seeking answers from health authorities about her death and the treatment she received leading up to it.
Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Wednesday disclosed that there has been minimal spoilage of COVID-19 vaccines in Guyana even as he mentioned that there are enough shots to give second doses to those still to be fully vaccinated.
Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital recently saw success in performing an emergency aortic aneurysm repair, with the patient expected to make a smooth recovery.
International real estate company, RE/MAX, last evening made its official entry into the Guyanese market with the hope of expanding and bringing a higher level of service in the country.
A just over 25% decrease in COVID-19 deaths and an almost 40% decrease in infections were reported in October as compared to the previous month.
Although not officially completed, the new Festival City Polyclinic was on Monday opened to offer services to the public.
A fire of unknown origin last night gutted a Charlotte Street home and left several homeless.
Guyana on Friday received 100,620 doses of the Pfizer vaccine that are intended for inoculation of pregnant women and lactating mothers.
It has been one year since the first set of persons were treated at the country’s Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal and the Minister of Health has stated that expansion plans may have to be put in place if Guyana’s COVID-19 cases continue to rise.
Over 200 children were yesterday administered their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine as the adolescent COVID-19 inoculation programme was officially launched.
Guyana on Friday received a third shipment of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines through the global COVAX initiative and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) representative Dr Luis Felipe Codina announced that a consignment of 100,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine is due to arrive here next month.
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last month successfully conducted its first kidney transplant surgery on a non-Guyanese patient.
Two sisters died within days of each other late last month after contracting the novel coronavirus.
A 55-year-old vendor says that he might not be able to work again after battling and surviving COVID-19 even as he spoke out on the food served to patients at the country’s Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal.
Guyanese neurosurgeon, Dr Amarnauth Dukhi, on Monday performed Guyana’s first paediatric brain aneurysm surgery on a 13-year-old high school student.
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