Guyana is one of several Caribbean countries that will benefit from the Inter-American Development-funded Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF), which provides funding and technical assistance for countries to improve weather forecasts, early warning systems and climate information services.
The SOFF initiative, a direct response to the recent rampage which by Hurricane Beryl that ravaged a number of the region’s island territories will, however, target the more vulnerable territories of the region frirst, with Belize, reportedly, being the first CARICOM state expected to benefit from the IDB-funded support measure through a grant of US$800,000.00. This, reportedly, will be followed by projects in The Bahamas, Barbados, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts-Nevis, and Trinidad and Tobago.