Guyana to receive award for cutting extreme poverty, hunger – President

From left are President Donald Ramotar, Minister of the Environment, Robert Persaud and US Ambassador Brent Hardt.

Speaking at an event commemorating World Environ-ment Day yesterday, President Donald Ramotar said that Guyana is one of 17 countries out of 189 selected to receive an award in Rome, Italy at the end of the month, aimed at the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 1: ‘Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.’

World Environment Day was celebrated under a three-part theme involving thinking, eating and saving. The focus has been to