July 28, 2021

After nearly two years without international cricket being played in Guyana, local cricket fans will be able to witness the T20 faceoff between World champions West Indies and the Babar Azam-led Pakistan from this weekend. On Wednesday…

The free PCR COVID-19 tests offered by the government should be used for those people exposed to the deadly virus or those at-risk and not for those who must test regularly because their workplace demands it, Minister of Health Dr Frank…

A Roraima Airways aircraft was involved in an incident at the Aricheng airstrip in Region Seven Wednesday afternoon. “We had an aircraft that had a runway incursion at Aricheng today,” Gerry Gouviea Jnr, Director of Roraima Airways told…

Some 2,000 residents, including migrants, residing in Region One (Barima- Waini) will benefit from a range of medical services during a medical outreach from August 2 to 6. The team of US and local medical personnel and volunteers will…

All of the children who were hospitalised in the COVID-19 Unit at the National Infectious Diseases hospital have been discharged, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony said on Wednesday. A few children were receiving treatment in the ICU…

Three women who tested positive for COVID-19, have died, the Ministry of Health reported in a statement on Wednesday. This takes the country’s death toll from the virus to 533. The ministry noted that the latest fatalities were all…

To further build its capacity to effectively monitor activities offshore Guyana, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon set up is own Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system. “What we are trying to do here is to…

Four years after the brutal murder of Tain, Corentyne domestic worker Leelawattie Mohamed, the case against three of the men who were charged has been dismissed for lack of evidence. Berbice High Court Judge Justice Jo-Ann Barlow ruled…

The body of a 1-year-old boy was on Tuesday pulled from a fishing pond by his mother at Onderneeming Sand Pit along the Essequibo Coast. Police said the woman, 32-year-old Elizabeth Henry was washing clothes in the yard but left the…

With employees in the private sector being told to get a COVID-19 vaccine or present a negative PCR-COVID-19 test weekly, Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Wednesday said this is one way of “encouraging a safe environment.” Further,…