With 107 cases last year, Health Ministry moves to launch “aggressive” prostate cancer campaign...
With prostate cancer on the rise in Guyana, the country’s Health Ministry will be collaborating with a local non-governmental organization to launch a special...
Gov’t recalls substandard hand sanitizer
The Government Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has immediately recalled the PURCILL Brand Hand Sanitizer from our local market.
The Department said that on...
COVID-19: Emergency measures to continue until June 3rd; airports remain closed
The National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) advises that:
- the emergency COVID-19 measures gazetted on April 9th by the Minister of Public Health, Hon. Volda...
Faith-based leaders urged to spread COVID-19 awareness as more men continue to die from...
Of the 10 COVID-19 related deaths recorded in Guyana, eight of them are males. For Guyana’s relatively small population, Health Officials said that there...
GECOM should not be seeking NCTF’s permission to establish additional workstations to speed up...
The nation was told yesterday that a team from the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) was going to inspect the Arthur Chung Conference Centre...
COVID-19 Update: Two new cases recorded
Guyana has recorded two new cases of the COVID-19 virus, says Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Shamdeo Persaud. This takes the number of confirmed...
COVID-19: Over 6,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine administered to adolescents
A week into its adolescent vaccination campaign, and the Health Ministry has already administered some 6,052 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Rollout began in...
Education Ministry employing several techniques to identify, effectively respond to varying learning disabilities
Dear Editor,
I am writing to clarify a critical distinction that is frequently misunderstood: the distinction between Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) and intellectual disabilities (ID)....
Persons encouraged to apply for relief kitchen garden initiative
As the global COVID19 Coronavirus pandemic continues to affect many Guyanese, the Rural Affairs Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture is encouraging persons to...
Decreased recovery time, reduced infections from surgeries when laparoscopic suite is added to New...
Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony says the New Amsterdam Hospital will be outfitted with a laparoscopic suite for the conduct of minimally invasive...
