ATLANTA, (Reuters) – An array of U.S. merchants in Georgia and other states prepared yesterday to reopen for the first time in a month under newly relaxed coronavirus restrictions, as another week of massive unemployment claims highlighted the grim economic toll of the pandemic.
India is assisting Antigua and Barbuda with funding to the tune of US$1 million for that country’s community development projects in the context of the current situation of COVID-19 with an immediate assistance of US$150,000 for medical supplies and equipment.
An East Canje Berbice couple who were busted with a quantity of cannabis at the Berbice River Bridge outpost on Sunday, were yesterday charged jointly with possession of narcotics when they appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate Court.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The coronavirus appears to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat and humidity, a U.S.
(Trinidad Express) The 70 posthumous tests for Covid-19 have all returned with negative results.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a $484 billion coronavirus relief bill yesterday, funding small businesses and hospitals and pushing the total spending response to the crisis to an unprecedented near $3 trillion.
HeroCart, a small business that offers delivery services for food, laundry and nearly any day-to-day request around Georgetown, has risen to the challenge of meeting the needs of those stuck indoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Barbados Nation) The criteria have been revised for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) testing referral as the Ministry of Health and Wellness seeks to expand testing.
The Ministry of Public Health today said that the number of confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus rose to 70 from 67 yesterday.
The US Embassy today said that US$475,000 ($100m) is being released by the US to Guyana’s COVID-19 fight.
The Police say they are investigating the murder of Zahir Ali , aged 40 years, a fisherman of Lot 78 Mosquito Hall, Unity, Mahaica, East Coast Dememara which occurred on 2020-04-22 about 7.20 pm allegedly by two males, one of whom has since been detained while the other is being sought.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A record 26 million Americans sought unemployment benefits over the last five weeks, confirming that all the jobs created during the longest employment boom in U.S.
FRANKFURT, (Reuters) – The European Union’s drug regulator warned again today against using two older malaria drugs to treat COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus, outside trials or national emergency use programmes, citing potentially lethal side-effects.
Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll percentage of 10.4 is far beyond the World Health Organization’s estimated 3 – 4 % mortality rate and this is of great concern to the Public Health Ministry.
Both the Aircraft Owners Association of Guyana (AOAG) and the National Air Transport Association (NATA) have expressed grave concern over the accusation by the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCCA) of ‘price gouging’.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is expected to meet today to discuss the draft order for the proposed recounting of votes for the 2020 General Elections and opposition- Commissioner Sase Gunraj is hoping for finality on the terms so that the counting can begin soonest.
The financial crisis facing the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is likely to force the company to approach the caretaker government for aid in order to pay employees’ wages and salaries for May, a source on Tuesday told Stabroek News.
The residents of Dantzig and Columbia villages in Mahaicony are becoming increasingly alarmed as the sea defences in the area erode more and more every day.
While a number of businesses remain closed to the public on Regent Street, those of the non-essential type which keep their doors open are saying that they have no other choice in order to keep bread on their tables and those of their employees.
At least 32 Crabwood Creek loggers, who are stuck at various points up the Corentyne River are running out of supplies since neither they nor their employers are able to traverse the river, after the Suriname authorities closed access due to that country’s COVID-19 curfew.
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