President David Granger on Sunday morning kicked off the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s National Congress (PNC), now the PNC Reform, with a tree planting exercise on Burnham Drive in Wismar, Linden in Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice.
“What Guyana is doing is not only for us but for the rest of the world. Green is what we are, green is what we do. Our national development policy depends on keeping Guyana green. Every year we will get hurricanes and the warmer the water gets, the more frequent and fierce those hurricanes will be. These events are catastrophic and that damage is being caused by global warming. It is being caused by climate change. We are seeing frequent and fiercer storms largely because of global warming and our brothers and sisters in the Caribbean are in jeopardy. These difficulties will go on unless we change the way we treat the environment,” a release from the Ministry of the Presidency quoted him on Sunday as saying.