Month: <span>April 2018</span>

Transcript of the address by His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, at the kite distribution exercise held in Lusignan, East Coast Demerara March 23, 2018

  • Posted: April 18, 2018
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President David Granger: Thank you for your welcome. As you know, I keep coming back here every year at Easter time and also at Christmas time so you all have to make me an honorary member of the Lusignan-Good Hope Learning Centre. How about that? You can give me an honorary number or make me …

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Transcript of the address by His Excellency, Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, at the Bartica Regatta April 1, 2018

  • Posted: April 16, 2018
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President David Granger: Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr. Basil Williams; Chairman of the Cuyuni-Mazaruni Region, Mr Gordon Bradford; Mayor of the town of Bartica – you don’t know how good that sounds to me – Mayor of the town of Bartica. I should have been saying that a hundred years ago; and Deputy Mayor, Ms. …

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Transcript of the remarks by His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, at the kite distribution exercise held in Anna Regina March 29, 2018

  • Posted: April 16, 2018
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President David Granger: It’s good to be here again. Honourable Amna Ally, Minister of Social Protection; Honourable Annette Ferguson, Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure; Regional Executive Officer, Mr. Rupert Hopkinson; Regional Executives; good people of Anna Regina and Region Two: I didn’t expect this big ceremony; I expected just a simple engagement- particularly …

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President Congratulates Troy Doris on ‘golden achievement’

  • Posted: April 15, 2018
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Georgetown, Guyana – (April 14, 2018)President David Granger extends congratulations to Mr. Troy Doris on what he described as a golden achievement on receiving the news of the national athlete’s outstanding performance at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which concludes tomorrow in Australia. Doris, won gold in the Triple Jump with his 16.88m second round leap, …

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45 trained in Initial Damage Assessment by Civil Defence Commission

  • Posted: April 15, 2018
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Georgetown, Guyana – (April 14, 2018)Even as the Regional Chairman of Pomeroon-Supenaam (Region Two), Mr. Devanand Ramdatt, informed the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) of the destruction of three homes in Lima due to heavy winds, the Commission, yesterday, concluded an Initial Damage Assessment training for 45 persons from that region, as well as, Essequibo Islands-West …

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Office of Climate Change launches website -to raise public awareness, provide up to date information

  • Posted: April 14, 2018
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Georgetown, Guyana – (April 13, 2018) The Office of Climate Change (OCC), which falls under the purview of the Ministry of the Presidency, today, officially launched its website, www. climatechange.gov.gy, as part of the it’s programmatic responsibility to enhance the availability of quality climate change and other related environmental data to its partners and other …

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President Granger accredits Thai, Pakistani envoys

  • Posted: April 11, 2018
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Georgetown, Guyana – (April 11, 2018) President David Granger said that there is much that Guyana can learn from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan with regard to the application of environmental monitoring technologies and policies to promote ‘green’ growth and address the adverse effects of climate change. Delivering remarks at the Accreditation Ceremony of His …

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Ten-point plan for Department of Energy being reviewed -includes organisational structure, legislation and capacity building measures

  • Posted: April 11, 2018
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Georgetown, Guyana – (April 11, 2018) President David Granger, today, said that as Guyana works toward developing a world-class oil and gas industry, a High-level Planning Committee, which includes the Ministers of Business, Finance, Natural Resources, Public Infrastructure and State and the Presidential Adviser on Petroleum, is currently reviewing a ten-point plan aimed at ensuring …

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