Introduction
Surprise would be a mild word to describe the reaction of many Guyanese to the report by Minister of State Joseph Harmon that President Granger had appointed Dr. Mark Bynoe to head the Department of Energy in the Ministry of the Presidency. Dr. Bynoe was identified in a 2017 news report in Caribbean Climate, a regional climate change blog as a senior environment and resource economist with the Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC).
The CCCCC helps countries develop Green Climate Fund programmes and projects and acts as a vehicle for the dissemination of relevant information to help the Green Climate Fund process and to help countries development priority programmes and projects under the Fund. Dr. Bynoe was particularly involved in a project in Belize to assist residents of Trio Village in combating the effects of climate related events such as deforestation due to lack of water, insufficient arable land and forest fires which threatened crops.
