A Superbet outlet at Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara was Thursday night robbed of GY$220,000 cash by two men who also robbed three other persons at the same location of cash and valuables including a car valued GY$2.6 million. Investigators were informed that the two men, one of whom was dressed in a camouflage outfit, attacked the cashier at gunpoint ...
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AFC wants APNU Region Four Chairman, Vice Chairman removed
The Alliance For Change’s (AFC) Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) councillors want the Chairman and Vice Chairman removed from office over claims of poor performance that has led to a loss of jobs and non-payment of persons. “This action was in direct response to the continued failures and shortcomings in the management of the affairs of the people in this key geographical ...
Read More »Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to be rolled out at each school, community
The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is to be taken to schools and communities to target only children between 12 and 18 years old to prevent them from getting seriously ill or dying from the virus, the Health and Education Ministers announced on Thursday. “When we come out to a school, we would really like to see that all the students from ...
Read More »Guyana Teachers’ Union plans to take legal action, demand free PCR tests, protest against COVID-19 rules
President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU), Mark Lyte late Wednesday night announced that that workers’ organisation was on standby to take legal action against government if teachers are prevented from entering their workplaces because they have not been vaccinated or tested negative for the coronavirus. After a more than two-hour long virtual meeting with more than 1,000 attendees, he ...
Read More »Venezuelans, Guyanese charged with murder of two Guyanese at mining camp
A Guyanese man and three Venezuelans were Wednesday arraigned for the murder of two Guyanese men at a mining camp at Blackwater, Region Seven. Those charged with the murder of Suresh Bachan and Steven Niles are 22-year old Nicholas ‘Wild Buck’ Caesar of Yarrowkabra Village, Linden Soesdyke Highway, and Venezuelans 25-year old Juan Oscar Calderon ‘Gordo’ Lopez; 24-year old Jose ...
Read More »West Demerara Hospital driver admits to stealing 12 COVID-19 vaccine books- police
Police on Wednesday said that a West Demerara Hospital driver has admitted to stealing a dozen COVID-19 vaccine books from a quantity that he had uplifted from the Ministry of Health. “One of the suspects admitted to being the one that sometimes would uplift the COVID-19 books from the Ministry of Health in Georgetown and take them to the West ...
Read More »Anti-vaccination protesters locked up for alleged illegal procession
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 nabbed and put into a police police bus. Sources said that ...
Read More »Human Services Ministry strengthens police training capacity to address domestic violence
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 2,000 members of the police force in dealing with domestic violence, ...
Read More »Three held with stamped sick leave forms, COVID vaccination books- police
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 Vreed-en-Hoop Health Centre after two of them went to the nurse ...
Read More »Assessment of schools for reopening underway
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. The Education Minister made known this position while speaking during a ...
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