The Ministry of Health is aiming to begin the payout of up to $600,000 in financial support to each hemodialysis patient countrywide from next week, Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony said on Friday.
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said his recent statements positing that Trinidad and Tobago is “falling apart” was based on economic reality and not intended as an attack on its Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, the country or its people.
The Traffic Department of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is moving to digitalise the learner driver programme and beginning April, some candidates will be able to sit the examination online and their results will be available immediately after.
Levelling allegations of serious mismanagement against their toshao, some residents of Wikki/Calcuni Village in the Berbice River has petitioned the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs seeking his immediate removal.
Proprietors of the tugboat that crashed into the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB), dislocating a pontoon anchoring chain last week Friday, have agreed to stand the cost for expenses incurred.
Matthew Ambedkar, who is accused of causing the deaths of three persons in an accident at De Willem, on the West Coast of Demerara (WCD), was on Thursday asked to post a total of $1.5 million bail for his release pending trial.
Two NGOs have collaborated to analyze the prevalence of hate crimes in Guyana with a view to helping to protect those persons and groups that suffer from these crimes.
A contract for the construction of the road link between Eccles, East Bank Demerara, and Ogle, East Coast Demerara, will soon be signed, according to Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill.
The current climate crisis requires immediate action in order to avoid a global disaster and this is especially critical for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and low-lying coastal states like Guyana, whose very survival is at stake, Attorney-General Anil Nandlall has said.
It is now urgent, more than ever before, that concerted global action be taken to tackle global issues, such as COVID-19, global warming and food security, says Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Federal Police have opened an investigation into allegations of corruption in the Education Ministry, a police source told Reuters yesterday, potentially adding to pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of October elections.
BUCHA/LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Moscow signalled yesterday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the East as Ukrainian forces went on the offensive to recapture towns outside the capital Kyiv.
The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board on Tuesday opened bids for the construction and rehabilitation of roads and streets across the various administrative regions in Guyana under the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development.
(Reuters) – Messaging app Telegram yesterday signed an agreement to join a program created by Brazil’s Electoral Court to combat misinformation ahead of the country’s presidential election in October, the court said on its website.