Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 16:27 by Denis Chabrol Several anti- vaccination protesters were Wednesday afternoon arrested as they were proceeding on Brickdam to the Ministry of Education’s offices, amid stiffer rules and enforcement for teachers and staff. Police said eight persons were arrested as they marched west on Brickdam from the Square of the Revolution. They were ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 10:04 by Denis Chabrol Ministry of Human Services-crafted manuals on how police must deal with reports and victims of domestic violence are to be entrenched in the training of members of the Guyana Police Force, government ministers said. Speaking with reporters after the official launch of COPSQUAD, an initiative to train at least ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 7:58 by Denis Chabrol Three men have been arrested in connection with the alleged theft of several blank COVID-19 vaccination books, medical equipment and other items from the Ministry of Health, police said. The Guyana Police Force said that the men- ages 24, 42 and 37- were arrested 11 AM Tuesday at the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2021, 21:16 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Education Priya Manickchand on Tuesday said an assessment of schools is underway to determine how schools would function from the beginning of the new school year. Ms. Manickchand also suggested that the extent to which nursery schools would reopen would depend on the conditions of each school. ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2021, 17:11 by Denis Chabrol A pensioner has been robbed of almost $190,000 shortly after he collected several pensions from the Leonora Post Office. The robbery occurred Monday at about 10:30 AM. The 72-year old man told police that a man pounded on him at about 10:30 yesterday morning and robbed him of $187,000 ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2021, 17:05 by Denis Chabrol A Guyana Defence Force soldier was killed early Tuesday morning in an accident on the Hauraruni Public Road, Soesdyke, Linden Highway. Dead is 26-year old Wilmot Ward of 1608   Central Amelia’s Ward Linden. Police say that Ward was driving his car at a fast rate of speed. Investigators ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 August 2021, 22:13 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) on Mon Monday night announced that it was pulling out of a school assessment exercise unless the Ministry of Education pulls back a directive that warns teachers that they would be marked as absent if they do not take a COVID-19 vaccine or produce ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 August 2021, 21:52 by Denis Chabrol The People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR)  Congress can cost the party at least GYD$25 million if it is held onsite at its Sophia headquarters, a cost that is now expected to be trimmed substantially when the next highest level decision-making body of that party meets again. “The committee has ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 August 2021, 21:04 by Denis Chabrol The Ministry of Education on Monday night urged teachers to be vaccinated to avoid dying, falling seriously ill or spreading the coronavirus, COVID-19, but they have the option submitting a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. “Teachers who do not wish to be administered any of the above-mentioned vaccines will ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 August 2021, 21:50 by Denis Chabrol An ad-hoc committee of the People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) executive has recommended that the long-awaited Congress be held in November in a mixed format of in-person and virtually, but already excuses are being made for delaying the holding of a Central Executive Committee meeting to discuss the report ...