Guyana News

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The Ministry of Health today said that a pre-existing condition led to the death of a vaccinated boy from Moruca on October 4.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) this afternoon confirmed the deaths of nine more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the country’s death toll from the pandemic to 816.

Bartica miner Eon Anthony Ramnarine, 38, was stabbed to death on Monday at Obanna Backdam, Kuribrong in Region Seven.

The Ministry of Finance’s Mid-Year Report for 2021 says that Guyana recorded real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 14.5 percent while non-oil GDP grew by 4.8 percent, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and floods experienced in May-June.

Only five of the nine companies pre-qualified to submit technical and financial proposals to build and design the New Demerara Harbour Bridge did so yesterday when tenders for the project were opened.

Days after the Guyana Fire Service faced scathing criticism over its performance in fighting the Brickdam Police Station blaze on Saturday, Fire Chief Kalamadeen Edoo was yesterday sent on leave.

An autopsy performed on the 13-year-old Moruca boy who died hours after he was administered the second dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, gave his cause of death as haemorrhaging in the brain.

Murder has been ruled out in the death of Dannie ‘Rickey’ Persaud who was found in the upstairs of a wedding house at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara.

Political confrontation would lead us nowhere, PNCR Chair and acting party leader Volda Lawrence told an event to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the party yesterday while former President and party leader, David Granger warned against factionalism.

Four more unvaccinated persons are Guyana’s latest fatalities as a result of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

In the quest of a new paradigm in relations, Guyana and Barbados yesterday discussed a range of natters including how they can work together to lower their food import bills.

The judiciary yesterday launched its revised code of ethics for judicial officers, which seeks among other things, to ensure integrity, impartiality and independence in upholding the Rule of Law.

Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday formed a committee in the Upper Corentyne which will be responsible for selecting the 150 fishermen to be sent to Suriname to acquire licences to fish in Suriname’s waters.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the rehabilitation of the Main access road at Ituni/Tacama in Region Ten.

Over 1,200 persons were inoculated at the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 vaccination drive-thru on Sunday at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) in Georgetown.

The Minister of Health yesterday stated that the administration of the Pfizer vaccine has been extended to cover pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers.

“We shall always protect the rights of the people,” is what President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Adrian Saunders said is the court’s “solemn promise” to the Region.

A Corentyne family is now mourning the loss of their loved one after he fell from his work truck along the Number 65 Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice, on Monday.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) believes that sugar workers nationwide, who it claims were all unfairly punished by the previous administration, are deserving of government’s recently announced financial support  programme.