Guyana News

The police yesterday said the medical certificates presented to them purporting to show that accused ‘Ponzi’ scheme operators Yuri Garcia and Ateeka Ishmael were COVID-19 positive have been found to be forgeries.

The Health Ministry on Thursday announced that patients seeking care at public health facilities must be allowed access whether or not they are vaccinated.

The Ministry of Health today said that unvaccinated persons must be allowed to seek treatment at health ministry facilities throughout the country.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) this afternoon approved motions to terminate the employment contracts of the Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield, Deputy Chief Election Officer Roxanne Myers and Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo. 

Fed up of medical staff and several severely ill patients being locked out of the Linden Complex Hospital (LHC) due to new COVID-19 vaccination requirements, over a hundred residents of Region Ten yesterday blocked the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge in protest.

Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony last night announced that healthcare workers and public transport operators will be given a two-week extension to comply with the recently instituted COVID-19 vaccination protocols.

As investigators continue to probe Tuesday’s night killing of Brazilian Euclid Da Silva, one of the suspected motives is that he may have been targeted as a result of an altercation involving his son and a known individual.

Police yesterday recovered the getaway car used by the men who carried out the $58 million robbery at Wallison Enterprise in Kitty last week.

Almost 70% of the 6,000 scholarships handed out recently by government through the Guyana Online Academy for Learning (GOAL) have gone to women, while nearly half of the overall 14,699 applications received could not be processed as the applicants failed to submit compulsory information, the agency disclosed said.

The members of this country’s first Law Reform Commission were yesterday sworn in by President Irfaan Ali, who charged them to ensure to not only work on changes to Guyana’s archaic laws but to keep abreast with the rest of the world, particularly with an oil and gas economy set to economically transform the country.

A Corentyne teenager has succumbed to injuries he suffered days ago when the motorcycle on which he was the passenger crashed into a cow along the Crabwood Creek Public Road.

In one of its final decisions before going into its annual recess, the National Assembly in the early hours of Tuesday passed a motion to adopt the findings of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of historian Dr Walter Rodney.

In announcing conditions for the implementation of the presidential directive for the reduction of freight charges to pre-pandemic levels, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday warned that any attempt to use the concession to evade taxes would attract penalties.

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond on Wednesday handed over cheques worth $7.4 million for the development of 15 small businesses in Region Two.

The Health Ministry on Wednesday reported three more COVID-19 fatalities. In a press release, the ministry said that the country’s total deaths as a result of COVID-19 increased to 567 with the latest fatalities.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has received a donation of US$18,000 in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to support its response to COVID-19.

A Corentyne man was on Tuesday evening rescued from a sluice, where he was thrown after he was struck by a car.

A man was on Tuesday sentenced to 36 months in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of break and enter and larceny.

Guyanese children could soon be vaccinated with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine following the announcement by the US today that it is donating 5.5 million of the shots to  CARICOM.

Health care workers, public transport workers and others who have have been mandated to take COVID-19 vaccines to continue functioning have been given a further two weeks to comply, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health.