Order of Roraima conferred on Brazil’s External Affairs Minister

Brazil’s Minister of External Affairs, Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira (centre) flanked by President David Granger (left) and Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

President David Granger yesterday conferred Brazil’s Minister of External Affairs, Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira with the Order of Roraima, Guyana’s second highest National Award.

The investiture ceremony was held at the Ministry of the Presidency.

President Granger, according to a Ministry of the Presidency statement, said that the conferral of the award was in recognition of Vieira’s decades of outstanding service in the