Georgetown: Former president, Bharrat Jagdeo is among four outstanding individuals to receive honorary degrees at Trent University’s 46th convocation ceremonies to be held on June 5 and 6, 2013.
The university announced that it is honouring an international group of individuals for their remarkable achievements and extraordinary contributions to making the world a better place.
Mr Jagdeo said he is delighted to accept this honour but interpret it as recognition of the vision and hard work of everyone in Guyana who is striving to show the world that it is possible to create a new global economy built on clean energy and sustainable land use.
He said creating this new economy is one of the defining challenges of this generation, and centres of learning like Trent University to continue to lead the way to the innovations that the world urgently needs.”
The university, in profiling Mr. Jagdeo noted that he oversaw a period of strong economic growth in Guyana and the introduction of major social reforms in health, education, and housing.
During his presidency, Guyana embarked on one of the world’s most ambitious low carbon development strategies, maintaining 99.5 per cent of its rainforest, and is on track to become the world’s number one user of clean energy by 2017.
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