US Ambassador D Brent Hardt officially welcomed Daniel Smolka, Director of USAID/Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean to Guyana as oversight of the agency’s operations here has been transitioned to USAID Mission Barbados. According to a press statement from the US Embassy, the USAID Operating Unit in Guyana will continue to be served by a small Guyana-based staff who will liaise with local counterparts from the US Embassy in Georgetown.
Smolka is based in the USAID/Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean office in Bridgetown where he will provide management oversight for continuing USAID programmes in Guyana, including a