Substandard drugs and other medicines not registered by authorities in Guyana continue to be sold to the populace and the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD), despite progress made in curbing this trend, will be upping the ante to deal with this situation. Prevention, detection and response are key steps to dealing with substandard and falsified medicines, and a recent study done globally has revealed that one in every 10 drugs released in the market, is a substandard drug. Director of the GA-FDD, Marlon Cole on Tuesday stated that the…
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Guyana needs to maintain positive track record on Yellow Fever virus – PAHO
Guyana has been free of the Yellow Fever virus for many years but maintaining this positive track record will require stringent efforts by public health and other related officials. This is according to Country Representative of the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO), Dr William Adu-Krow, who shared that Guyana sits between countries in South America where the virus is endemic – a factor which should not be ignored. He was speaking at an event organised to create capacity in handling Yellow Fever in the country. This was amid…
Read MoreAnd they’re off…
…to divide Guyana! In what will certainly be the longest political campaign in Guyana’s history, David Granger led his PNC into one of its traditional strongholds – Linden – in their opening sortie. Not the so-called “five party coalition”, APNU…not the APNU/AFC coalition, but the PNC!! Of course, we know Granger and company have been campaigning even as they fought their rear guard, Court battle against the NCM! Surely, dear readers, you didn’t think all those ministerial “outreaches” were belated mea culpas for ignoring areas outside their air-conditioned offices since…
Read MoreGECOM officials need to present themselves to be interviewed by the media
Dear Editor, On Sunday last I saw an American network television interview with the Head of the Broward County Elections Commission in Florida responding to questions about the competence of the administration and the integrity of the county’s elections commission. It occurred to me, while watching this programme, that it is high time that the Chairman and Chief Elections Officer of our Elections Commission do the same and present themselves to be interviewed by our media. Why? Because: 1. President Granger (Yes, he is still President) messed with the Commission…
Read More‘Please help us’
…Mother of 6 pleads for assistance after husband dies at sea A mother of six is pleading for public assistance after her husband died at sea in April. Narainee Chunilall of Number 56 Village Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), is seeking help to ensure that five of her six children can complete school. The 33-year-old lost her husband six months ago when crew members returned to shore with his body and reported that he died at sea. She said she has been able to get part-time employment at a…
Read MoreCops destroy small ganja field on WCD
Police ranks in Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) on Monday managed to locate a patch of land that had been cultivated between bushes on which 750 cannabis sativa plants were growing. According to Commander of that region, Senior Superintendent Linden Lord, an operation was carried out between 10:15h and 11:00h on Monday where several ranks from the La Grange Police Station conducted a “drug farm eradication” at the Inner Bagotville Backdam, West Bank Demerara. He noted that each of the suspected cannabis sativa plants measured between one to 12 inches…
Read MoreJagdeo urges immediate action to defend coastal region from flooding
…says shift to higher land will have to be done gradually In light of the recent overtopping caused by abnormally high tides, the topic of relocating Guyana’s coastal populace to higher grounds has reignited but Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo said it is unrealistic to do so now and instead, it will have to be done gradually. “It’s unrealistic to expect people to move [now]. So I see the move as a gradual one, people going to high ground but we can’t give up our productive assets on the coast. We…
Read MoreSpending the loot…
…from oil Your Eyewitness has been thinking about why exactly all those countries that found oil and had oodles of money pouring into their treasuries yet contracted the dreaded “Dutch Disease”. Did the money itself have a virus with it or something, or was it one of those non-communicable diseases we’ve been hearing so much about? For Guyana, your Eyewitness believes the cause is that virus called “greed”! And going by what’s been going down ever since oil was struck in 2015, we’ve already contracted the disease bad! And why…
Read MoreGail Teixeira cleared to be included on PPP/C List after renouncing Canadian citizenship
Former Opposition Chief Whip and parliamentarian Gail Teixeira has officially renounced her Canadian citizenship, paving the way for the veteran politician’s return to the National Assembly and her Party’s candidate list. Teixeira made this revelation on Monday, on the sidelines of the first day of the National Toshaos Conference at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre. When asked, she informed Guyana Times International that her documents were in fact finalised a couple months ago. “I received my renunciation since June 26, 2019. My Canadian citizenship was renounced by the Canadian authorities.…
Read MoreECD man remanded for fatally stabbing wife
The 35-year-old man, who allegedly stabbed to death the mother of his three children, was on Thursday, arraigned for the crime at the Vigilance Magistrates Courts. Clive Wilson, a pork knocker of Montrose, East Coast Demerara, appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore and was not required to plead to the indictable charge. The charge detailed that on the August 25, 2019, at Victoria Village, East Coast Demerara, he murdered Shamain Frank, 27. Based on information received, the suspect was seen entering the woman’s yard at about 03:00hrs, but was ordered by…
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