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Thursday, December 26, 2024

211,000 women to be screened for cervical cancer by 2030 – Dr Anthony

In keeping with the commitments made in Budget 2024, the Health Ministry on Friday inked several Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with various partners to...

Govt commissions Waramuri telemedicine centre

The government has commissioned a telemedicine unit in the village of Waramuri, located in the Moruca sub-district, Region One ( Barima-Waini) in an effort...

EMTs Deliver 1st baby in Berbice Region

Within a month of commissioning the Emergency Medical Services in Berbice, EMTs attached to the New Amsterdam Fire Station were called to a critical...

$97M digital x-ray unit commissioned at Fort Wellington

Residents of Fort Wellington and other neighbouring communities can expect expedited X-ray services as a modern, $97 million digital X-ray unit was commissioned at...

GPHC announces 1st paediatric liver resection in Guyana

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) proudly announces the successful completion of the first paediatric liver resection in Guyana. This groundbreaking surgery was performed...

Eccles Health Centre now equipped with Nicotine Replacement Therapy

The Ministry of Health's Chronic Disease Unit on Wednesday handed over a quantity of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) supplies to the Eccles Health Centre...

GPHC performs landmark reproductive surgery

Full Statement: The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is proud to announce a remarkable medical achievement by a dedicated team of gynecologists and obstetricians led...

7 students at Port Mourant Training Centre test positive for dengue

    Seven students housed at the Port Mourant Training Centre (PMTC), Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) have reportedly tested positive for dengue. This was only after...

Family protests NA Hospital seeking answers over deaths of siblings

Some five weeks after the deaths of two siblings, who died a day apart from each other, a Berbice family has staged a protest...

GPHC receives modern devices to facilitate better treatment of persons with kidney diseases

Through a collaborative effort between the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), and Boston Scientific, several LithoVue scopes were...

Recent Articles

Vessels fraudulently using Guyana’s flag sanctioned by US Treasury Dept

See full statement from the Maritime Administration Department: The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) wishes to share the facts in relation to information shared in a...

Historic moment for Guyana & US – Ambassador Theriot on Gte loan approval

    Today, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM), announced an approval of more than $526 million to the Ministry of Finance of the...

US EXIM Bank Grants Final Approval for US$526 M Gas to Energy Loan to...

Today at noon, His Excellency the President Dr. Mohammed Irfaan Ali received a telephone call from the President and Chair of the United States...

$100K cash grant: Rigid systems in place to avoid registration, issuance of cash grants...

                In light of specious and baseless claims by some sections of the public that dead people were registered for the 100,000 one-off cash grant...

ExxonMobil now owns all 3 FPSOs operating in Stabroek Block

      The purchase of the Liza Destiny Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel by ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL), was recently completed for US$535 million,...

Christmas 2024 in Guyana – When the tradition keeps on living – by Sébastien...

An account from Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana Sébastien Sigouin on his 1st Guyanese Christmas experience  If there was one distinctive part of my Christmases...

Pedestrian killed in Corentyne accident

    A Corentyne man is now dead after being hit by a car about 30 minutes before Christmas Day.   Dead is Jermaine Fraser, 40, of Auchlyne...

E-bike rider killed after colliding with minibus at WCB

      An electric bike rider is now dead after colliding with a minibus at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) on Christmas Eve. Dead...

25 years of hard work burnt to the ground, rebuilt for Christmas

By: Mishael Henry The smell of burnt charcoal lingers in the nostrils of Andrew McBean, and is etched into his memory like a sore scar. Exactly...

A soldier’s boots under the tree, but no son to wear them

By: La'Wanda McAllister  Festive homes all over Guyana are glimmering with Christmas lights and the melody of carols float in the warm December air. But...