The Ministry of Public Health will this year construct a new bond to store medical supplies, even as it has allocated GYD$150 million to next year continue renting the controversial bond at Sussex Street, Albouystown from a businessman. During consideration of the 2017 Budget estimates of expenditure, Public Health Minister George Norton announced that GYD$250 million have been set aside ...
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$100M allocated for rebuilding Health Ministry building destroyed in 2009 arson
Government has earmarked $100M to have the Public Health Ministry building at Brickdam rebuilt, which was gutted by fire set by an arsonist in 2009. “It is a known fact that the head office of the Ministry of Public Health was burnt to the ground nearly 8 years ago since July 2009 during the past regime,” Public Health Minister Dr ...
Read More »Hotels to replace kaimoos in mining districts- Broomes
Government will be accommodating women working in the mining districts in hotels instead of the shanty structures known as ‘kaimoos’, Junior Minister of Natural Resources Simona Broomes announced on Wednesday. “The word ‘kaimoo’ will be a word of the past. We inherited a government who had women in kaimoo. Let me put you on notice. We will have them in ...
Read More »14% VAT on condoms is a tax on safe sex- Opposition MP Dr. Frank Anthony
Opposition MP and former Culture, Youth and Sport Minister, Dr Frank Anthony had the National Assembly in an uproar this morning when he rose in the House to declare the new 14% value added taxes for a number of items is a tax on safe-sex, as well as the deaf, the elderly, the disabled, and the sick. “This year is quite ...
Read More »Mining activity not linked to death of Region 7 boy, brain-dead brother – Minister Norton
The death of A 9-year-old boy from the Kako village in Region 7 and the brain-dead state of his 11 year old brother has health officials still asking questions about the circumstances surrounding their death. But Health Minister Dr George Norton told the press corps today at the Public Buildings that the boys conditions was not linked to meningitis as ...
Read More »Team dispatched to Mazaruni after boy dies, brother “brain dead”
Health officials suspect that toxicity of a waterway in Region 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) may have caused the death of a boy and the “brain dead” state of his brother, Public Health Minister, Dr. George Norton said Sunday night. Based on symptoms and an autopsy, he said medical experts have ruled out an infection such as meningitis but rather the possible consumption ...
Read More »Prince Harry interacts with teenage mothers and TIP victims
First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger on Sundayt hosted Prince Henry of Wales, familiarly known as Prince Harry, at a reception on the Lawns of State House where he had the opportunity to interact with teenage mothers and victims of Trafficking In Persons. The Ministry of the Presidency said the Women’s Empowerment Programme is responsible for the teenage mothers and they were ...
Read More »US President recognises work of Guyanese home care CEO
United States (US) President, Barack Obama on Saturday recognised the contribution of a young Guyanese lady in her homeland in the area of care for the elderly, in his address at a Town Hall meeting in Peru. “We need leaders like Abbigail Loncke of Guyana; Abigail are you there? So after struggling to find her own grandfather a home care, Abigail ...
Read More »Nursing exam paper leaked, sold
Investigations are ongoing to identify person or persons who may have been responsible for the leak of examination papers before the sitting and assessment of 250 nursing students on October 19 and 20, 2016, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported on Tuesday. Nurses who sat the Clinical and Functional examination in October were informed by Principal Tutor of the Georgetown ...
Read More »Guyana to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates with IDB support
Program seeks to strengthen the country’s healthcare network, benefitting some 140,000 women and 9,000 newborns a year The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on Thursday announced that it has approved an US$8 million loan for a program to help reduce maternal, perinatal and neonatal deaths in Guyana. This program seeks to improve the quality of care at 140 health facilities and ...
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