Health
UN urges the world to ready for extreme heat risk from El Niño
GENEVA, June 2 (Reuters) – The United Nations weather agency forecast on Tuesday a moderate or possibly a strong El Niño that could drive up global temperatures and increase the risk of extreme weather over the coming months. El Niño is a periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, which typically lasts...
Guyana prepares for historic robotic surgery as healthcare enters new era
Guyana is preparing to make medical history with what could become the longest-distance robotic cardiac surgery ever performed. President Irfaan...
Caribbean eating too much salt as hypertension, heart disease surge — CARPHA warns
The Caribbean Public Health Agency, CARPHA, is sounding the alarm over dangerously high salt consumption across the region, warning that...
Prisoners to use iPads to talk with lawyers, family members
See below statement issued by the Guyana Prison Service on the use of iPads by prisoners: Guyana Prison Service Protocols/...
COVID-19: Guyanese writers stuck in Trinidad
Today marks one month since Kevin Garbaran and fellow Guyanese writer Scott Ting-a-Kee travelled to Trinidad for a two-week writer’s residency at...
COVID-19: Handcuffed Venezuelans attempted to escape to Mahdia, Lethem
Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence on Tuesday said the four Venezuelan women who were handcuffed to beds at a...
Reg. 4 accounts for 86% of COVID-19 cases in Guyana
Forty-eight persons have tested positive for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as of April 14, with Region Four accounting for...
Region Ten confirms second COVID-19 case
A 29-year-old woman of Linden, Region Ten has tested positive for the new Coronavirus Disease. This is the second case...
Guyanese couple dies hours apart from COVID-19 in the U.S
A US-based Guyanese woman has lost both of her parents to COVID-19 in Houston, Texas, United States at the weekend....
Guyanese doctor in critical condition after testing positive for COVID-19 in U.S
Dr Ramesh Sugrim, a 66-year-old general practitioner who has been serving Guyana for over 30 years, is currently battling for...
COVID-19 cases jump to 47; five persons in ICU
Guyana has recorded two new cases of COVID-19 taking the total number of cases to 47 as of April 13,...
COVID-19: Elections threaten Guyana’s potential for ‘unprecedented’ growth –World Bank
By Ravin Singh The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which is unfolding amidst a deepening political crisis in Guyana could threaten the...
COVID-19: Four Venezuelans handcuffed to beds at quarantine facility
Four Venezuelan women were on Saturday night taken to one of the Ministry of Public Health’s COVID-19 quarantine facilities in...
Samples from 6-Y-O Lindener who died test negative for COVID-19
Laboratory results have determined that a six-year-old girl who died at the Linden Hospital Complex on April 08 was not...
US Coronavirus death toll becomes world’s highest
[BBC] – The United States has now overtaken Italy to have the highest death toll from coronavirus in the world....
British PM Johnson discharged from hospital after Coronavirus treatment
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital and will continue his recovery from COVID-19...
No Church services, kite flying in public places – Nagamootoo reaffirms
In accordance with emergency measures implemented by the Government to tackle the spread of COVID-19, no one will be allowed...
‘Protect, respect frontline workers’ in COVID-19 fight- President urges
Statement by His Excellency, David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, on the Coronavirus Disease Today, 11th April...
200 Guyanese on cruise ships and thousands in NY want to return home
The National COVID-19 task force has received requests from an estimated 200 Guyanese nationals who are on cruise ships and...
34 Guyanese nationals die from COVID-19 in NY
Thirty-four Guyanese is on record to have died in New York, the United States of America, from the Coronavirus Disease...
45 confirmed COVID-19 cases now in Guyana
As of April 11, Guyana recorded five new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 45 in...
