‘Name and shame’ campaign to address patient abandonment at GPHC

A culture of patient abandonment continues to plague the country's premier public health institution – the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Guyana Standard has learnt...

No budget for 2020, COVID-19 led to project delays; we were not lapsing –...

The distressing financial state of several governmental agencies and the delays in several major infrastructural projects are no fault of former ministers under the...

Schools remain closed until further notice- National COVID-19 Task Force

Schools remain closed until further notice- National COVID-19 Task Force According to a statement this morning by the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF), schools across...

CARICOM SG requests approval for chartered flight from Guyana to transport recount observers

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has dispatched a letter to the Chairman on National Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Task Force (NCTF)...

Antigen tests to be used by hospitals soon

Health facilities throughout the country will soon have access to antigen testing kits. This follows the arrival of a shipment the Government ordered last...

Region Four markets to be reopened this week; wearing face masks mandatory

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown has informed that it is in the process of sanitizing the interior of the Stabroek and...

Central Bank recommends deferred loan payments, other relief measures as country grapples with effects...

In an effort to help individuals and businesses grapple with the effects of the Coronavirus outbreak, Central Bank is strongly encouraging commercial banks and...

Hazardous mining equipment no longer in Linden

The intervention of Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman has led to the removal of two water draggers used in Linden from the mining...

COVID-19 mobile testing units to visit Harmonie, South Ruimveldt next week

COVID-19 mobile testing units will be making their way to La Parfaite Harmonie on the West Bank of Demerara and South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, next...

Five more die of COVID-19; death toll reaches 692

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has informed that as of September 13, 2021, five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19),...

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