As Guyana looks on ruefully at the still ongoing cleanup and rebuilding operations arising out of Hurricane Beryl and its consequences elsewhere in the Caribbean, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture has announced the undertaking of a U$US 45 million investment in the strengthening of the its resistance capacity against the backdrop of what is now an enhanced obligation to consolidate the country’s food production capabilities.
Even as combined public/private sector effort was ongoing to support the now further weakened food security bona fides in countries in the region possessed of fragile credentials in the first place, Guyana’s Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh was signing off on a US$45 million agreement with the World Bank, for the Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (CARes) project, according to a release from the Department of Public Information (DPI).