The latest COVID-19 measures now indicate that educators as well as well as other employees working in all government-owned and privately-owned buildings being used for public purposes must now be vaccinated or have a negative PCR test within seven days. The September 4, 2021 measures, signed by Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony and published in the Official Gazette, state that ...
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Government continues to order workers to rotate staff, amid rising COVID-19 cases
The Government continues to order the rotation of staff in the public and private sectors, amid a sharp rise in the number of COVID cases and deaths, according to the latest Order issued on Saturday. “All persons employed within the Public Service, a semi-autonomous agency, statutory body or State-owned enterprise shall work on rotation unless otherwise instructed by their respective ...
Read More »GTU sounds strike call but Education Minister relying on teachers’ commitment to students
The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Wednesday called on all teachers to go on strike from next Monday if any unvaccinated teacher is turned away from school, but Minister of Education Priya Manickchand remained optimistic that many schools would be manned by teachers who have taken a jab against the coronavirus. “We will be monitoring very closely what will take ...
Read More »Trade unions ask High Court to quash latest COVID-19 vaccination measures
The Guyana Teachers’ Union, Guyana Public Service Union and their umbrella Guyana Trades Union Congress on Tuesday asked the High Court to quash government’s vaccination policy that they say amount to coercion to take the jab against the viral disease. Also named as applicants are GPSU Vice President Dawn Gardner, GTU General Secretary Coretta Mc Donald and GTUC General Secretary ...
Read More »GPSU to challenge legality of lock-out, removal of unvaccinated, untested workers
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 an interview with the media in the presence of about 30 ...
Read More »Huge turnout of school-age children for Pfizer vaccine at Movietowne
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 get vaccinated,” said Health Minister Frank Anthony, a medical doctor by ...
Read More »COVID-19 vaccines were not developed overnight “humanity was lucky” — Guyanese virologist at Pfizer
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 and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2012 formed the basis ...
Read More »Top Guyanese scientist at Pfizer hails quality of UG education
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 they are receiving but I can tell you this that the ...
Read More »PNCR’s Mervyn Williams in COVID-ICU
Former People’s National Congress Reform parliamentarian, Mervyn Williams was Friday still in the Intensive Care Unit of the COVID-19 hospital, well-placed sources said. The sources said Mr. Williams was not vaccinated against the virus that has so far claimed the lives of more than 600 persons in Guyana. “He is having a hard time,” the source said. A former ministerial ...
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 ...
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