Guyana's ruling party urges international community to step up measures to combat global warming
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| Published on Thursday, September 4, 2008 |
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By Kevin Lindon
Caribbean Net News Guyana Correspondent
Email: kevin@caribbeannetnews.com
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Following the recent upsurge of hurricanes and tropical storms in the Caribbean region, Guyana’s ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has called on the international community to look more seriously at measures to combat global warming.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, the PPP’s General Secretary Donald Ramotar said that his party believed that the upsurge and intensity of natural disasters was a consequence of global warming.
“The PPP believes that the international community must take decisive actions in the fight against global warming,” Ramotar said. “Each country must take the necessary measures to cut its emission of green house gases and do more to protect the natural environment.”
The General Secretary said that scientists had been warning about global warming and its effects for quite some time, adding that a lot of “lip service” from many quarters has so far been paid to the issue.
Several Caribbean countries have been bracing themselves for the past three weeks as a number of tropical storms have made landfall in the region. Haiti has been the hardest hit Caribbean nation with three storms in three weeks and many more heading in its direction.
“The People’s Progressive Party wishes to extend its solidarity with the people of Cuba, Cayman islands, the Dominican republic, Haiti, Jamaica, the US and India who have suffered greatly in natural disasters that have recently struck those countries,” Ramotar said.
Ramotar told the media that the international donor community needed to boost its assistance to these Caribbean countries that were recently hit by a series of hurricanes and tropical storms. | | | | Reads : 226 | | | |
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