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In its latest travel health notice, the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has listed Guyana as a country where there is a very high risk of contracting COVID-19 and has warned against travelling here.
Forty-two businesses have been warned about breaches of COVID-19 protocols according to the Ministry of Health and the National COVID-19 Task Force Secretariat (NCFTS).
The lack of human resources and infrastructure are two of the major factors which contributed to the recent escape of two inmates from the Lusignan Prison, Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels says.
Twenty-one new cases of COVID-19 were recorded yesterday. This was revealed through the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard.
On November 10, the United States announced that it will be imposing visa restrictions on wildlife and timber traffickers.
Attorney-at-law Maxwell Mc Kay has died. The criminal defence attorney is said to have died sometime during the course of Sunday evening.
A woman remained critical in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday after a vehicle toppled at Hill Foot Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway on Sunday.
President Irfaan Ali is on an official three-day visit to the Republic of Suriname.
Three men were yesterday charged with robbing a Corentyne boat owner of cash when they appeared at the Whim Magistrate’s Court.
After being remanded to prison for just over a week on charges of unlicensed gun and ammunition possession, national cyclist Hamzah Eastman was on Thursday granted High Court bail in the sum of $150,000.
The trial of Alvin Jones who is accused of the 2017 murder of amateur footballer, Paul Daniels, will commence on Thursday morning before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the High Court in George-town.
The University of Guyana (UG) has started mailing certificates to graduates.
The man who was shot in an attack in Albouystown on November 1st has been discharged from the hospital but the shooter is still on the run.
The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo is to procure peanut shellers to boost the industry’s prospects.
A Cuban doctor attached to the Skeldon Public Hospital was yesterday robbed of cash, jewellery and a television after two persons broke into his quarters.
The services of the Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Dr Vincent Adams were today officially terminated.
Caribbean Airlines is now offering a weekly service between the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana and the Jose Marti International, Havana, Cuba, which started on November 21.
Soesdyke businessman Terrence Dickie, 53, was this morning fatally shot during a home invasion by four armed men.
The police today said that they are probing the murder of Alex Morgow, 20.
Government’s discussion with The University of the West Indies (UWI) to train at least 20,000 persons here is by no means bypassing UG but is aimed at providing online tertiary education for the many who lobbied for it, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday said.
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