Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2021, 12:18 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) will this week file court action against the locking out of nurses and other government employees because they are not vaccinated or refuse to take a PCR test, a top union official said Monday. GPSU Vice President Dawn Gardner made the announcement during ...

Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2021, 9:02 by Denis Chabrol Suriname’s former President Desi Bouterse’s 20-year jail sentence for the murder of 15 persons while he had been a military ruler in 1982 was Monday morning confirmed. Starnieuws reports that Bouterse was not in court, saying he was sick and no arrest has been ordered. The session lasted a ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 August 2021, 15:04 by Denis Chabrol A Plant Operator at the Bosai Minerals Group was early Sunday morning burnt to death in the compound of that Mackenzie, Linden-based bauxite mining company. He has been identified as 39-year old Kersa Robertson of Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden. Investigators have so far been informed that the man went ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 August 2021, 13:51 by Denis Chabrol More than 1,000 school-age children by midday Sunday took a Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine, as a steady stream of vehicles continued  to enter the Movietowne compound at Liliendaal where the jabs were being provided. “This is a great response. We have a lot of parents bringing their children out to ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 August 2021, 10:18 by Denis Chabrol Firefighters Saturday night contained a blaze to a house at Coghlan Dam, West Bank Demerara but the lone occupant sustained burns and was rushed to a nearby hospital, police said. Investigators said they believed that the 45-year old man, who is “believed to be of unsound mind”, set the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 August 2021, 9:56 by Denis Chabrol Ten men have been arrested in connection with the late Saturday night killing of a man at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice after he asked them to remove from outside his premises where they had been drinking and using indecent language, police said. Dead is 6o-year old Rishi Barrat of ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 August 2021, 9:26 by Denis Chabrol Principal Research Scientist at United States drug maker, Pfizer, Dr Vidia Roopchand has sought to dispel concerns that COVID vaccines were developed overnight, but said they date back to the fight against two other coronaviruses. He said research in tackling Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the early 200s ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 August 2021, 6:24 by Denis Chabrol A Guyanese senior virologist at United States drug maker, Pfizer, Dr Vidia Roopchand, has hailed the quality of education being offered at the University of Guyana from which he obtained his first degree. “I know a lot of students in Guyana are sometimes tentative about the standard of education ...

Last Updated on Friday, 27 August 2021, 21:56 by Denis Chabrol One of three persons was Friday arrested in connection with the gunpoint robbery of a woman  who had just arrived at her Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara home from a bank at Diamond, police said. The woman alleged that she was robbed of US$1,500 , GY$290,000, an iPhone XR ...

Last Updated on Friday, 27 August 2021, 21:30 by Denis Chabrol Retired Assistant Superintendent of the Guyana Police Force, Gordon Mansfield was Thursday morning killed in a road accident on the Buck Hall Road while travelling in a vehicle owned by Aurora Gold Mines, police said. “It was alleged that motor pick # PVV 8623 was proceeding east along the ...