New $45M health administrative building, training centre for Lethem commissioned

A spanking new health administrative building and training centre costing approximately $45 million was commissioned in Lethem, Region Nine on Saturday. The building which was...

COVID-19: 1759 households in 25 communities benefit from relief distribution

As the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) continues to work to bring relief to citizens and communities, which have been affected by the Ministry of...

Over $3.7M in PPEs donated to Ministry of Education

The Ministry of Education on Friday received a quantity of Personal Protective Equipment from Logistics Gy Express Inc., valued at $3,790,000. Permanent Secretary, Mr. Alfred...

Matured vaccination programme bearing fruit

Guyana’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has matured from the initial tight focus on children when it began some 40 years ago to targeting...

COVID-19 Update: Guyana records another COVID-19 case; eight cases confirmed in two days

Director of Primary Health Care Services, Dr. Ertenisa Hamilton, reported today that Guyana has recorded another COVID-19 case; taking the total number of cases...

Message from Health Minister on Int’l Day of Persons With Disabilities

See full statement below: Theme: “Building Back Better: Toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world” Guyana is joining with the international community to once again...

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...

PANCAP youth meeting to draft tactical HIV response roadmap

Set for July 30–August 2, 2019, the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach...

Partnership initiative to help sustain HIV/AIDS gains

The Ministry of Public Health is currently piloting a tactical Public-Private Partnership (PPP) which will see it partnering with private physicians to join the...

DDL postpones Annual General Meeting until further notice

Demerara Distillers Limited’s (DDL) Annual General Meeting that was scheduled to be held on April 3, 2020, has been postponed until further notice. The...

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