Guyana News

Residents of Region One are continuing to question the reliability of the Ministry of Public Health’s testing protocols after two persons were revealed to be positive almost two weeks after being tested for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

The family of the 10-year-old boy who was told he had to leave the examination room in Santa Rosa, in the Moruca sub-district of Region One, where he was preparing to write the National Grade Six Assessment, was never told that he was not going to be allowed to sit the exams.

With public sector construction now once again allowed, works are to recommence with the implementation of safety measures and policies onsite to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to Chief Works Officer at the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Geoffrey Vaughn.

As part of efforts to provide support during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has provided vouchers to 22 mothers with children born with microcephaly.

An asthmatic woman is among the country’s COVID-19 survivors after a near-death experience with the deadly virus.

A teacher who has been in isolation for almost three weeks at a COVID-19 facility in the Moruca sub-district in Region One, is concerned that hygiene standards at the facility may not be conducive for recovery.

A Corentyne woman has been arrested after she was found with a baby she is accused of keeping from its mother for four months.

The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) and the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) have received funding from the Latin American Trade Association (LATA) Foundation to create a Counter Wildlife Trafficking Communications Toolkit.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is planning to restrict road use by container trucks during peak hours on roadways in Georgetown, and the East Demerara and West Demerara, in order to ease congestion.

With Monday being a national holiday, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has announced that the payment of old age pensions will commence on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, at post offices countrywide.

Citing a series of allegations, the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) has written GECOM Chair Claudette Singh calling for the immediate dismissal of Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield.

A Corentyne woman was on Friday placed into police custody after she was found with a baby who was reported missing from Bartica in early March.

Following spikes in COVID-19 infections, the government yesterday announced that no one will be allowed into or out of Moruca in Region One and the mining area of Aranka/Arangoy Landing in Region Seven without the permission of the Minister of Public Health.

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque yesterday stressed that each action taken by the Community to help resolve Guyana’s elections crisis was “by invitation” and in an attempt to maintain regional grouping’s reputation as a bastion of democracy.

Georgetown Magistrate Faith McGusty yesterday ordered that Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield be summoned to appear before a city court after three private charges were filed against him over alleged chicanery in the tabulation of results from the March 2 polls.

Guyana has recorded six new cases of COVID-19, including the first in Region Eight, which means that the virus has now reached nine of Guyana’s ten Administrative regions.

Guyana’s economy grew by 5.4% and remained stable in 2019, with key macroeconomic variables, such as the balance of payment deficits and debt to GDP ratio continuing to be favourable, according to the Ministry of Finance. 

People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) candidate Anil Nandlall has filed a complaint with the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) accusing the Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan of inciting racial hostilities among Guyanese during an appearance on television programme broadcast in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T).

The Private Sector Commission on Friday expressed its disappointment over the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and said it was concerned that Guyana’s National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) is not functioning in areas it is expected to.

To ensure that an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) does not occur in Mabaruma, the Mayor and Town Council will be recommending that travel be restricted to and from the town considering that the locality already has three active cases and the isolation facility that was built can only accommodate a limited number of persons.