Guyana News

Two more women were yesterday confirmed by the Ministry of Health (MoH) to have died from  COVID-19  bringing the total number of fatalities to 78.

A 22-year-old man died last night after the car he was driving crashed into a canter along the Lima Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

A fifty-two-year-old businessman is now a patient at a city hospital where he is nursing a gunshot wound to the neck following a shooting at his Roxanne Burnham Gardens residence.

‘Relief’ and ‘enthusiasm’ are words that can be used to describe the feelings of two of the forty-nine repatriated Guyanese who returned from Suriname on Monday after much anticipation.

The National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) has issued a public warning over land in the vicinity of Eccles on the East Bank that persons are attempting to sell/sublease.

Ninety-two families of Gordon Table, a farming community in the Mahaicony Creek will soon have access to potable water.

An 85-year-old woman is currently a patient at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after she was struck down by a speeding car yesterday afternoon while attempting to cross the La Grange Public Road on the West Bank of Demerara.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday said that around 30% of those employed in the tourism sector have lost their jobs and another 36% had been furloughed or placed on unpaid leave as a result of the fallout from COVID-19. 

President Irfaan Ali today said that around 30% of those employed in the tourism sector have lost their jobs and another 36% had been furloughed or placed on unpaid leave as a result of the fallout from COVID-19.

Guyana’s COVID-19 fatality figure now stands at 78. The latest fatalities are a 55 -year-old female from Demerara-Mahaica (Region 4) who died while receiving care at the Ministry of Health medical facility.

While maintaining that his government is committed to improving the lives of all workers, President Irfaan Ali yesterday suggested that recent protests staged by frontline health care workers over demands for better wages and salaries and conditions were being instigated by persons seeking to exploit current circumstances.

The police are probing the death of a two-year-old child, who succumbed on Friday, almost one month after he allegedly consumed milk laced with a methamphetamine.

President Irfaan Ali has said a planned 5,000 turn-key homes project will create at least 25,000 jobs within just one year as part of the 50,000 new jobs he promised to create within his five-year term.

Government has begun the distribution of the promised $25,000 cash grant for COVID-19 relief, according to President Irfaan Ali.

The use of antiviral medication remdesivir to treat on COVID-19 patients in Guyana has started as part of the World Health Organization’s Solidarity trial and Head of Medical Services at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation Dr Mahendra Carpen has said the results have been promising.

A 62-year-old pedal cyclist, who was struck down in a hit-and-run accident along the Liliendaal Railway Embankment on Friday night, succumbed at a city hospital early yesterday morning.

As the criminal investigation into the attempts to manipulate the results of the March 2nd polls widens, Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield was yesterday arrested in connection with allegations of criminal conduct and subsequently released on station bail after invoking his right to remain silent.

Two more deaths and 16 additional novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases have been confirmed by the Ministry of Health.

Finding evidence of poor performance and substandard works on a number of capital projects, President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that the Attorney General’s Chambers will be tasked with conducting a review of projects that will hold contractors, supervisors and project unit heads accountable for lapses.

From Monday, print material for students to study and continue learning from home will be available at schools and Neighbour-hood Democratic Councils (NDC) nationwide.