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 ...

Guyana and Suriname are set to heighten cooperation in health including the provision of highly specialised services, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony said Thursday shortly after inking an accord with his counterpart. He offered, as examples Guyana being able to offer kidney transplants to Surinamese, and this country sending patients to that Dutch-speaking nation for radiotherapy.  “In a way, we ...

Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony said 56 Cuban health care workers have arrived in Guyana and have been deployed to work at the Ocean View, Liliendaal-based COVID-19 hospital as the country prepares for wave of infections from the Delta variant. “We need people who can operate our Intensive Care Unit,” he said in his daily update on the viral ...

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira on Thursday said he and Pastor Nigel London convinced protesters to clear the Mackenzie-Wismar bridge after Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony opened the door to talks about the vaccination process. Dr. Anthony announced late Wednesday night that health care workers and public transportation workers would be given until August ...