Guyana News

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has  condemned the actions of public transportation operators, who since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Guyana, have been discriminating against healthcare workers.

The Port Mourant land surveyor,  Mahendra Mangru, who was picked up in an unconscious state in front of his property on Tuesday, died as a result of a fractured spine due to a blunt trauma, a post-mortem examination revealed yesterday. 

Works on the Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue project are still ongoing and are being executed under the precautionary protocols mandated to arrest the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) according to Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson.

MANAUS,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Amazonas state warned today that its health system has been overwhelmed by the coronavirus epidemic, with all intensive care beds and ventilators already taken as a result of the outbreak.

The Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has issued an immediate recall of the Purcill brand of hand sanitizer from local shops and stores.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield yesterday proposed a 156-day-long recount of ballots from the disputed March 2 general and regional elections, which the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) defended even as most of the contesting parties dubbed it unacceptable.

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has claimed another life in Guyana, bringing the death toll to six while the number of confirmed positive cases has risen to 37.

Merely 12 days after his 80-year-old wife reportedly died of pneumonia, Colonel John Percy Leon Lewis, popularly known as ‘Uncle John,’ passed away on Tuesday night after he began displaying severe symptoms of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Veteran trade unionist and long-time PPP executive Komal Chand died yesterday morning in Cuba where he had gone for treatment.

The Ministry of Finance yesterday said it wished to categorically state that the salaries of public servants, and pensions, are guaranteed for the rest of the year.

It should not be forgotten that the reason why the March 2nd elections results have not yet been declared is that on March 4th senior officials of GECOM began a treacherous campaign to steal the election from the people by bastardizing, then aborting the count for District Four.

A 46-year-old miner was allegedly shot and killed on Saturday afternoon by a police constable after he attempted to rob a group of men including the rank at Stevedore Housing Scheme, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

The main suspect in the murder of Rose Hall, Corentyne grocer Lomenzo Johnny, who was killed at the end of February, was arrested in Georgetown yesterday, a senior police source con-firmed.

Sohan Ramdial, the cattle farmer whose body was found in a shallow grave on Monday morning, was stabbed multiple times, an autopsy yesterday confirmed.

A unidentified motorcyclist died yesterday afternoon after he lost control of his bike and collided with a concrete median on the Houston, East Bank Demerara Public Road.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) yesterday announced that it has debarred Mohan Surujpaul trading as M Surujpaul General Construction and General Service from bidding for state contracts for three years.

The People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) Masking Guyana initiative that has seen persons from Regions 3, 4, 5, and 6 getting onboard to create thousands of cloth masks to protect from the coronavirus that has claimed six lives here is well on its way to reaching it’s 10,000 goal this week.

Ruling among other things that the law leans in favour of limiting fundamental rights in the interest of public health to detect, prevent, contain and eliminate infectious diseases, the Full Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal filed by Kennard Gobin, who challenged the detention of his son at a government quarantine facility.

Just a few days before one of Christianity’s biggest celebrations, the COVID-19 shutdown has left persons with no other option but to celebrate Easter at home.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has urged countries in the region to ensure that health care workers have access to the personal protective equipment (PPE) and supplies they need to care for patients affected by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.