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Caribbean Public Health Agency warns of possibly major dengue fever outbreak
While chikungunya and zika, which swept the region in 2014 and 2016 are not expected back anytime soon, the Caribbean...
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Four regions get newly-graduated Patient Care Assistants
The Patient Care Assistants who graduated in May, 2018 Approximately seventy-four residents from Regions Three, Four, Five and Ten have...
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Guyana Gold Board stops burning gold at Brickdam location; new locations for selling gold to be announced
Left to Right: Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman; General Manager of the Guyana Gold Board, Eondrene Thompson and Gold...
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Gold Board’s mercury polluting lab that sickened GGMC workers to be moved “within the shortest possible time”
Left to Right: Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman; General Manager of the Guyana Gold Board, Eondrene Thompson and Gold...
Read moreDetailsGGMC’s Board recommends temporary closure until mercury clean-up, removal of Gold Board’s laboratory; decision rests with Minister Trotman
Chairman of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Stanley Ming and Acting GGMC Commissioner, Newell Dennison. The Board of...
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Occupational Safety and Health experts probing mercury poisoning of GGMC workers
Chairman of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, Earl Morris. The Ministry of Social Protection's Occupational Safety and...
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Guyana to update Occupational Safety and Health regulations in preparation for oil and gas
Occupational Safety and Health consultant at the Ministry of Social Protection, Gweneth King Guyana is moving to update its regulations...
Read moreDetailsMercury-poisoned GGMC workers threaten protest over govt’s silence; refusal to shutdown or improve Gold Board’s lab
Guyana Gold Board Workers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) are threatening protest action if other relevant government...
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Pan-Caribbean multi-stakeholders to discuss strategy for ending AIDS
The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean’s...
Read moreDetailsGold Board tasked to review location, operations of laboratory in wake of mercury levels
Left to Right: Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman; General Manager of the Guyana Gold Board, Eondrene Thompson and Gold...
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