SHAS­TRI BOODAN

Res­i­dents of Pe­nal will get a new state-of-the- art li­brary soon said Sta­cy Roop­nar­ine, the Oropouche West MP.In a me­dia re­lease Roop­nar­ine said she and of­fi­cials from the Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tems Au­thor­i­ty (Nalis) toured the pro­posed site on Tues­day.She said the its con­struc­tion in the area was time­ly since she had been lob­by­ing Nalis for the fa­cil­i­ty for over a year. Roop­nar­ine said she was pleased that a site had been iden­ti­fied and agreed on.

She said the ben­e­fits to hav­ing a li­brary in­clude "per­sons hav­ing ac­cess to a wide range of ref­er­ence ma­te­ri­als; hav­ing iso­lat­ed fo­cus for a num­ber of stu­dents who may want to study and hav­ing ac­cess to mul­ti­ple com­put­ers."Roop­nar­ine said the site at Ramjohn Av­enue, Pe­nal, was ide­al­ly sit­u­at­ed be­tween the Dayanand Memo­r­i­al Vedic School and the Pe­nal Pres­by­ter­ian School, which would al­low stu­dents from the pri­ma­ry schools to al­so ben­e­fit from the li­brary.