16 orphans of Bless the Children’s Home in Georgetown on Saturday benefitted from eye care screening and examination through a project executed by the Office of the First Lady in partnership with Optique Vision Care. Bless the Children’s Home is one of the orphanages which benefits from the First Lady’s Adopt-an-Orphanage initiative, which was launched…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has officially launched his re-election campaign, as he trails his main rival badly in opinion polls. Thousands of the far-right president’s supporters gathered at a stadium in Rio de Janeiro, where he was nominated. He promised to retain a welfare programme that makes cash payments to poorer Brazilians. His left-wing rival,…
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the News Amsterdam Hospital Dr. Bob Ramnauth The New Amsterdam Hospital is set to undergo major upgrades in the near future. This was revealed by the Hospital’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Bob Ramnauth during an engagement with the press last week. Ramnauth, who is also a general surgeon, took over…
— national athlete involved in accident undergoing rigorous training and therapy IT was Napoleon Hill who once said, “Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” While this may seem like a simple quote for many, these words, however, are more than just quotes for 22-year-old Kristoff Shephard. Shephard, who is…
Impressions Branding, a local company, was selected as the branding and logistics partner for this year’s International Building Expo and the company believes that it has been instrumental in promoting the image of hundreds of exhibitors at the expo. Creative Director at Impressions Shane Sukhlal, in an interview with the News Room, related that the…
THE first flock of the Black Belly sheep from Barbados is expected in Guyana shortly, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha announced recently. He was at the time addressing residents of No.28 Village and surrounding communities in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice). Some 1,000 sheep will be transported in smaller flocks over the coming weeks. “We will be having…
The government and opposition are yet to resolve the ongoing stalemate over attempts to merge the 2019 and 2020 Auditor General Reports for review by the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC). It was expected that the issue would have been discussed at Monday’s statutory meeting but that never got underway. Opposition Parliamentarians on the Committee…
President Irfaan Ali is leading a Guyana Government delegation to Washington DC to meet with US lawmakers and various groups on issues related to Guyana and US relations. Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd, and Foreign Secretary, Robert Persaud, are the other members of the delegation. The high-level…
— selling rust-proof alternative to steel rods ENCOURAGED by the massive construction boom in Guyana, US-based company, Basanite Amazon, which offers a construction alternative to steel rods, is looking to set up an office and eventually a factory, in Guyana. The company is one among several overseas-based businesses that are on show at the International…
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in Georgetown on Monday said the group was “extremely saddened” over the deaths of 17 Haitians who perished after the boat carrying them capsized off the coast of the Bahamas on Sunday. “This latest disaster brings to the fore once again the desperate situation in Haiti and the reprehensible nature…
