Caribbean family planning associations’ skills boosted in disaster risk reduction
Caribbean islands are among the most vulnerable to climate change impacts and are threatened by extreme weather patterns with hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding, volcanoes, droughts...
Two more fatalities take COVID-19 death count to 877
The Ministry of Health has informed that as of October 18, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have...
Caribbean Surgery lab is 23rd local facility to attain GNBS Certification
The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) Certification Services Department on Tuesday certified another laboratory under its Laboratory Certification Programme.
Caribbean Surgery Inc. Laboratory was...
MOE gets thousands of protection gears for distribution in schools
The Ministry of Education today received a quantity of COVID-19 personal protective equipment from Sewa International Guyana.
Some 80,719 face shields, 24,190 KN95 masks, 126,500...
Gov’t eyes former Ocean View Hotel, GBC building to be use as dedicated COVID-19...
The Government of Guyana (GOG), through its National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) has plans to modify the building that once housed the Ocean View...
Reconstituted NCD Commission gets PAHO/WHO support
The National Commission on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) has been reconstituted to serve for the period of February 2019 through December 2021. To...
More than 4,600 Guyanese vaccinated in one day; Minister says new COVID-19 measures contributed...
Some 4,613 persons have received vaccines within the last 24 hours. This 'record' turnout is all thanks to the new COVID-19 guidelines issued by...
National Suicide Prevention Commission on the cards with passage of bill
The Ministry of Health’s ‘comprehensive and transformational’ Suicide Prevention Bill 2022 was on Monday passed in the National Assembly, enacting the decriminalisation of suicide...
Gov’t begins consultations to draft plan to end AIDS by 2030
Local stakeholders in the fight to combat HIV/AIDS have set a new target to end the epidemic by 2030. The path to achieving this...
Three more COVID-19 fatalities
Three more persons, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), have died. This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to...
