Georgetown : New Amsterdam Secondary School emerged the winners of the just concluded Climate Change-Low Carbon Development Strategy (CC-LCDS) Secondary Schools’ Quiz. They faced St. Joseph Secondary in the Finals.
The Head of the office of Climate Change, Mr. Shyam Nokta, congratulated both teams in finals and all the other schools that participated in the Quiz for their role in spreading important information on Climate Change and Guyana’s LCDS programme to all Guyanese.
The CC-LCDS Quiz involved 16 top secondary schools drawn from all ten regions of Guyana and was organized by the Office of Climate Change in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and NCN, with veteran broadcaster Dr. Rovin Deodat as Producer and Quiz Master.
All the secondary schools that participated in the Quiz received various types of prizes from the Office of Climate Change. The Champions and Runner-up both received trophies and individual gift vouchers for each team member as well as trips to places of interest in Guyana.
Mr. Nokta indicated that the Office of Climate Change is planning to have the Quiz as an annual event.
