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My first stop is before the
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Tech acquired for COVID-19 pandemic useful elsewhere, says Carby
WITH the Caribbean region being menaced by potential twin disasters, COVID-19 and predictions of an active hurricane season, head of the Disaster Risk Reduction Centre at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Dr Barbara Carby says technology acquired for managing the pandemic should be
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Covid-19: Why the Western Cape has an 18 000-test backlog
The Western Cape has an 18 000-test backlog for Covid-19, said Premier Alan Winde on
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Sobhraj Foundation donates 1,000 COVID-19 hampers
One thousand hampers have been donated to several organisations and communities in Guyana by the Jay and Silvia Sobhraj Foundation in an effort to provide relief to persons affected by the coronavirus disease
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UVA Doctors Discuss Impact of COVID-19 On Black America
Dr. Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia, moderated the distinguished panel which featured Hilton, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia and co-founder of GoodStock
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Mass Murder or was it Suicide?
More than nine hundred persons, most of them Black Americans, died in mass murder and suicide pact in Jonestown, Guyana.
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Latest tests uncover new COVID-19 case
Guyana has recorded a new positive COVID-19 case, taking its total number of cases to 159, according to the test results released yesterday by the Public Health
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Somalia: Govt Airlifts Medical Supplies to COVID-19-Hit Towns
Officials from Somalia's health ministry have delivered much needed medical supplies to Galkayo and Afmadow towns in the regions of Lower Jubba and Mudug
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Bank says my cheques would no longer be honoured if payee is not also a member
Bank says my cheques would no longer be honoured if payee is not also a member
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COVID-19 testing underway at La Parfaite Harmonie Police Station
The Ministry of Public Health’s Health Emergency Operations Centre (HEOC) is now conducting COVID-19 screening and testing at La Parfaite Harmonie Police
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
These decisions by the ministry on exams are reckless given our realities
In some of the wealthiest industrialised countries (Germany, China, and Taiwan) the reopening of schools has been followed by an increased number of COVID-19 cases among the
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Grant, Bernie (1944–2000)
Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 to serve as one of the country’s first black Members of Parliament (MPs). With a head teacher for a father and a teacher for a mother, Grant, the second of five children, was
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What has happened to all of the money?
As Guyana prepares to transition to a new Government, people are demanding to know where has all the money gone that was transferred to the outgoing Granger Government in May
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Disbelief and rumours lead to virus deaths in Haiti
CITÉ SOLEIL, Haiti (AFP) — On paper, Haiti so far has everything it needs to battle the novel coronavirus crisis — unoccupied hospital beds, medical staff, and
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Virtual Guyana Carnival parade set for Independence
The Guyana Carnival committee is set to host a virtual masquerade parade on Independence Day, May 26, after its planned celebrations were scuttled by the COVID-19
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Covid-19: Farmers, agro-processors feeling the pinch
Whereas unlike in other countries, some even here in the Caribbean, where the onset of COVID-19 has placed the issue of food security close to the top of the national agenda, this thankfully has not been the case in
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Granger says ‘outside’ verdicts on polls ‘reckless’ before end of recount process
While suggesting that comments by regional leaders on Guyana’s elections process have been “premature” and “reckless,” caretaker president David Granger last night urged that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) be allowed to do its work and once again pledged to abide by whatever declaration it
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Inventor Jan E. Matzeliger born
Inventor Jan E. Matzeliger was born in Dutch Guyana and immigrated to the US in 1878. He patented a shoe lasting machine in 1880.
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Exxon oil output falls as compressor problems continue
Production at Exxon-Mobil’s Liza-1 project in the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana, has plummeted from 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) to now between 25,000 and 30,000 bpd as compressor problems continue and the company would not increase flaring above about 15 million cubic feet of natural gas per
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‘It is safer to be in Ja right now’ - Younger Jamaicans turning down job offers, eyeing return to land of birth
According to chief representative officer of JN Bank in South Florida, Janice McIntosh, Jamaicans in this part of the diaspora are projected to spend an estimated US$4 million (J$581 million) on real estate investments in the near
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Seepersaud targets U19 spot
Former Guyana Under-17 vice-captain, Andre Seepersaud is working relentlessly towards securing a spot in the Guyana side for the Regional Under-19 tournament, tentatively set for later this
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US Secretary of State urges gov’t to respect wishes of voters
In an independence day message to Guyana, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday called on the Guyana Government to respect the wishes of voters as expressed on March 2nd
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CARICOM again calls for closer ties to Africa | New York Carib News
Mottley said it was also important to recognize that 75 years after the establishment of the United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions –the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – “to come together to determine how best we can re-fashion how they function and how they look to
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No new COVID-19 case, 22 tests done
No new Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) case was reported
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Rowley optimistic over CPL but warns of challenges | New York Carib News
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley said he was “cautiously optimistic” the entire six-week Caribbean Premier League could be staged here later this year but cautioned that the tournament would have to align with the country’s existing COVID-19
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Plans being made to address requests for stranded Guyanese to return home
Amidst continued calls by Guyanese stranded abroad for the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) to grant permission for them to return home, head of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Lt. Col. (ret’d) Egbert Field  has said that planning is ongoing to address the
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Doctor Considered To Be 'Jay-Z' Of Brooklyn Hospital, Who Delayed Retirement To Fight COVID-19, Dies Of The Virus - Blavity
Dr. James A. Mahoney spent 40 years serving hospitals in low-income
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Rubis in COVID-19 donation to CDC, GPHC
Joining the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Rubis Guyana Inc is  providing transportation for frontline workers and has also contributed more than $2M as part of its several initiatives aimed at providing relief to persons in need and to ongoing efforts of the Civil Defence Commission
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Eleven more persons tested, no new COVID-19 cases
Eleven more persons tested, no new COVID-19 cases
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Doctors Livestream to Discuss Impact of COVID-19 on Black America
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