-cites `alarming’ increase in online attack on media workers
As the Guyana Press Association (GPA) observes World Press Freedom Day 2024 today, it said that the country is facing an environmental crisis.
In a release yesterday in recognition of the day held under the UNESCO theme, “A Press for the Planet: Journalism in the face of the Environmental Crisis,” the GPA saluted all media workers, noting that this not only places media workers on the frontline of another crisis but it also gives the Association an opportunity to work towards solutions.
According to the release, the country faces a prolonged dry spell, which in some regions only now seems to be abating, an uncontrolled solid waste management crisis, varying in severity in different areas, and dismally poor environmental management of a number of gold mining and coastal sea defence areas. It pointed to the dried and cracked canals, increased food prices, and shortages of staples such as cassava, as evidence of a country and planet in the throes of a deep environmental crisis.