Three employees of the Ministry of Health, who were allegedly involved in a racket where COVID-19 immunisation cards were offered for sale to unvaccinated persons were yesterday slapped with forgery charges.
Prime Minister Mark Phillips today rejected statements by Deputy Speaker of the House Lenox Shuman that the government has not been consulting with the indigenous peoples.
As had been expected, Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall has informed municipalities and Neighbourhood Democratic Councils across the country that Local Government Elections will not be held this year as had been scheduled.
Both Vishnu Persaud and Jamaican Leslie Harrow were interviewed by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday for the vacant post of Chief Election Officer (CEO) and a decision could come as early as today.
Parliament is to meet on Monday, December 13th when the report of the Auditor General on the Public Accounts for the year 2020 will be presented along with a number of performance audit reports including one on the COVID-19 Pandemic Assistance Voucher Programme.
Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday dismissed an application by former Attorney General Basil Williams SC that she recuse herself from presiding over a 2017 libel case brought against him by now Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC in relation to Commonwealth Law Reports.
Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand has given directives to the Chief Education Officer to grant a waiver for the issuance of permanent certificates to all teachers who have completed five years of post-graduate training.
President Irfaan Ali yesterday said that the government is seeking partnerships with universities to establish a biodiversity research centre in Guyana even as he boasted about the high forest cover.
The statue of famous trade unionist, Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow, located in the compound of Public Buildings, George-town, was rededicated on Thursday evening, 57 years after it was first unveiled.
The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of December 06, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.
A former Berbice journalist who came from humble beginnings, and was raised to believe that a woman’s sole purpose is to be a housewife, has defeated the odds and was sworn in as an attorney-at-law last month.
Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the company contracted by ExxonMobil to conduct the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Yellowtail well development, has since apologised for “mistakenly” releasing the findings of the EIA with the signature of consultant Shyam Nokta.