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Optique Vision Care’s first specialty eye hospital set for Aug. 2024 completion
As Optique Vision Care celebrates its 10th anniversary, the company’s management on Friday announced that it will be spearheading the establishment of the country’s first privately-run specialty eye hospital.
Construction is currently in…
Though encouraged to do business, new lawyer keen on ‘fighting for what’s right’
A career in business was what Simone Singh’s parents encouraged her to pursue.
She was, however, not keen on that path and instead, wanted to study law.
On Wednesday, years after she started her legal studies and job as a paralegal…
Money from trees: What of Indigenous people and their rights? And do they benefit from the carbon…
By Neil Marks
neil@newsroom.gy
After years of campaigning by Guyana and other forest-rich nations, there is finally a mechanism to value the carbon dioxide stored in trees and to pay countries which have kept their forests standing.…
Dancer & entrepreneur now among Guyana’s newest lawyers
Shania Persaud is a dancer and small business owner. On Wednesday, she was admitted to the local bar and is now among Guyana’s newest lawyers.
Persaud’s petition was presented before Chief Justice Roxane George, SC, by Attorney General…
Guyana’s Rea Harris is Hugh Wooding Law School valedictorian
Guyanese Rea Harris is the valedictorian of the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) class of 2023, and she will be graduating on Saturday with other top honours.
Harris told the News Room that she also copped the Mediation Board of Trinidad…
Guyanese foodie creates new cookbook, paying homage to her mother’s recipes
By Vishani Ragobeer
Vishani@newsroom.gy
Althea Brown, a Guyanese food enthusiast, has been sharing Guyanese food with the world for years now. She does this through her social media and website, where she’s better known as ‘Metemgee’.…
Why is Guyana spending big to replant patches in its forest?
By Neil Marks
neil@newsroom.gy
At Dakoura, 65 miles south of Guyana’s capital Georgetown, bulldozers and excavators work to fill in a crater left from bauxite mining.
Once this work is done, it will be time to treat the land and…
Naya Zamana 25: A theatrical spectacular with deep meaning
By Jessica Callender
After 25 years of high-quality production, Naya Zamana has earned the reputation of being one of Guyana's monumental annual dance and theatrical extravaganzas, and arguably the zenith of Indian dance productions in…
Guyanese woman ‘reaching for the stars’ as a NASA researcher
US-based Guyanese Keanna Jardine will soon join a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research team to study the OSIRIS-Rex samples at Arizona State University.
In an emotional interview with the News Room on Friday, the…
Guyanese beauty brings home the Caribbean Culture Queen crown
By Lazeena Yearwood
Lazeena@newsroom.gy
It was a triumphant win for Guyana and a spectacular opportunity for 20-year-old Shemena Peroune who emerged as the Caribbean Culture Queen at the pageant’s 15th edition.
Peroune’s win is…