With new COVID threat, Health Ministry may now test for variants
With the renewed threat of increased COVID-19 deaths and infections due to the new Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, Health Minister Dr. Frank...
Workplace accidents: Gov’t looking to impose hefty fines, stronger penalties on businesses
Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton says the fines and penalties laid out in Guyana’s Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act are “useless” and so,...
Pollard, Russell and Narine only West Indians retained by IPL franchises
The window for the franchises to retain players for the VIVO Indian Premier League 2022 season closed on Tuesday, with the teams making their picks....
Linden couple die days apart from COVID, pneumonia
A married couple from Mackenzie Linden, Hilton Lyle Snr and June Lyle died within two weeks of each other from COVID-19 and other respiratory...
Guyanese benefited from more cash transfers than other Caribbean countries – World Bank report
Households in Guyana have received social transfers to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a new World Bank report has found that...
Excitement defines opening night of ExxonMobil National Indoor Hockey Championships
Teams shared the spoils on the opening night of the ExxonMobil National Indoor Championships as hockey had its long-anticipated return to local competition after...
3 years jail for less than an ounce ganja; accomplice fined $5,000
Shem Winter, a 21-year-old barber of Tabatinga, Central Rupununi in Region Nine was sentenced to three years imprisonment and slapped with a $10,000 fine...
Cop in fatal accident did not have driver’s license, insurance; granted $1M bail
Aaron Rodrigues, 21, a Special Constable of Freeman Street, East La Penitence was placed on $1 million bail following an accident on the Mocha...
Construction worker fear drowned at Hope Canal
A search is ongoing for 21-year-old construction worker, Shaheed Alli of ‘B’ Field Sophia, Georgetown who is suspected to have drowned while swimming on...
Elderly woman dies in hit and run on Lamaha Street
Police are on the hunt for the driver of a white vehicle who fled the scene after hitting down and killing a 78-year-old woman...