Health

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 a negative test once weekly. “The Guyana Teachers’ Union withdraws with ...

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 be required to submit a negative PCR test once a week. ...

Three more persons, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died, taking Guyana’s death toll since last year March to 594, the Health Ministry said. The patients were admitted with COVID-19 like symptoms but died while receiving care at government medical institutions. The Health Ministry says samples were taken at the time of admission which subsequently returned positive ...