Category: Speeches

President Ali’s address at the inaugural Caribbean Agtech Investment Summit 2021 (CATIS2021)
Your Excellencies
Heads of Delegations
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen
I am exceedingly pleased to have been afforded the opportunity to deliver the keynote address at today’s launch of The Inaugural Caribbean AgTech Investment Summit 20 [...]

Keynote Address of President Ali at the Opening Ceremony of the Sixteenth Caribbean Week of Agriculture, 2021
Chairperson, Your Excellency Dr Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of the CARICOM Secretariat, Heads of Organisations, Heads of Agencies, ladies and gentlemen, especially those fo us in the audience who are farmers and stakeholders in the agriculture [...]

President Ali’s message on Agriculture Month 2021
Agriculture is on a transformative trajectory
The designation of October as Agriculture Month is in recognition of the importance of the sector’s contributions to the country’s economy, and its critical role in guaranteeing food security and supp [...]

President Ali’s message to the White House’s Global COVID-19 Summit
I welcome the White House’s Global COVID-19 Summit and support its draft targets.
In response to the pandemic, Guyana designated the safety of our people as paramount even as it instituted policies to prevent the collapse of the economy. As [...]

President Irfaan Ali’s statement at the High-Level Meeting to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Madame Chair
I am pleased to participate in today’s commemoration under the important theme of “Reparations, racial justice and equality for people of African descent”.
The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action is a comprehensive, action- [...]

President Ali’s statement to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Moment at the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
Mr. Secretary-General,
Please accept my Government’s congratulations on the renewal of your term of office and be assured of Guyana’s continued cooperation and support in the execution of your duties.
Guyana welcomes the convening of the SDG M [...]

VI (Sixth) Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)
Address of His Excellency Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana
His Excellency, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of the United Mexican States
Fellow Heads of State and other Heads of Delegation,
Disti [...]

President Ali’s message on International Day of Democracy 2021
The General Assembly of the United Nations has designated September 15 each year as International Day of Democracy. In proclaiming this ‘Day’, the United Nations affirmed democracy as a universal value, one which is based on the freely expressed wil [...]

President Ali’s statement on additional support measures to vulnerable groups
My Fellow Guyanese,
As you know, since my Government assumed office last August, we have spared no effort to ensure the reversal of the severe and punitive conditions created by five years of misrule and mismanagement by the APNU/AFC dictatorship [...]

President Ali’s statement at the swearing-in ceremony of the Law Reform Commission
Attorney General, Minister Teixeira, DPP, President of the Bar Association, Newly sworn members of the Law Reform Commission, other lawyers, members of the media, let me welcome you to this simple but significant event.
Society does not remain st [...]
