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Japan solar project for Bartica launched

Tuesday, 18 July 2017

The Ministry of the Presidency (MotP), through the Office of Climate Change, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on July 13, 2017, launched the Japan-Caribbean Climate Change Partnership (J-CCCP) in Bartica, which will see the town benefiting from a 20Kwp grid connected Solar Photovoltaic (PV) system at the 3-Mile Secondary School along with the installation of energy efficient lighting, as well as light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting.

Familiarization visit to Germany by Permanent Representatives of member States of the Association of Small-Island Developing States (AOSIS) from 15-19 May 20017 on renewable energy technologies and efforts to combat climate change

Monday, 22 May 2017

 

Photo-op with the Chancellor of Germany, Dr. Angela Merkel

Guyana ranks 6th out of 180 countries when it comes to 'Air Quality'

Sunday, 16 April 2017

Guyana ranks 6th out 180 countries when it comes to ‘Air Quality’ – latest EPI study by Yale university

The 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), a Yale-based initiative that evaluates how 180 countries around the world protect ecosystems and human health, has ranked Guyana as 6 when it comes to ‘Air Quality’.

Newly elected President of the United Nations Staff Council, Guyanese Ms. Bibi Sherifa Khan pays courtesy visit to Ambassador Michael Ten-Pow

Monday, 03 April 2017

Newly elected President of the United Nations Staff Council, Guyanese Ms. Bibi Sherifa Khan (second from left) paid a courtesy visit to Ambassador Michael Ten-Pow on 30 April 2017. Accompanying Ms. Khan were Ms. Michelle  Rockcliffe of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (left) and Ms. Kamini Balram, Head of Administration at the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

Minister of Social Protection, Ms. Amna Ally, delivering an address on behalf of CARICOM, at the opening of the Sixty-First Session of the Commission on the Status of Women on Monday, 13 March 2017 at the United Nations, New York

Thursday, 16 March 2017

Statement on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)  by The Honourable Ms. Amna Ally, M.P. Minister of Social Protection of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana at the Sixty-First Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

"Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work”

Mr. Chairperson, I am honoured to speak on behalf of the fourteen member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). CARICOM thanks the Secretary General for the various reports issued for the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.