Dear Editor,
As you may be aware, Guyana will be celebrating Environment Week beginning on June 2nd, 2013, and World Environment Day on June 5th. This annual event, run by the United Nations Environment Programme, is held to raise global awareness of the need to take positive action for the benefit of the environment.
Given today’s challenges with climate change issues, we need to be more cognizant of our practices and the related impacts that they have on our environment and country at large. We believe that an individual effort will make a collective and visible difference. Therefore, we are urging you to make some small changes to your daily habits.
Join with us and take a stand to clean up your offices, work environs and premises during Environment Week and adopt practices that will reduce waste in your environment. Some of these include banning styrofoam materials in your offices, using recyclable paper, duplexing documents, cleaning your building environment, enhancing and beautifying your landscape by fixing parapets and planting trees, cleaning your drains and drainage system, fixing potholes in front of your premises, fixing your fences and gates and reusing office supplies among others. We implore you to reduce, reuse and recycle.
We also encourage you to have an ongoing practice of keeping our environment clean. Remember that dirty surroundings reflect a dirty mind and cleanliness is next to godliness.
Yours faithfully,
Indranauth Haralsingh
Director
Guyana Tourism Authority
