to serve as regional secretariat
 Minister McCoy served as panelist during conference

THE Parliament of Guyana will serve as the Secretariat of the Region for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) for the next three years.
Also, for this year’s Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC), Minister within Office of the Prime Minister, Kwame McCoy, served as a panelist for Workshop D: Youth Roundtable–‘Role of the Commonwealth in international security and peacebuilding’ on Tuesday, October 3, 2023.
The conference is being held under the theme: ‘The Commonwealth Charter 10 years on: Values and Principles for Parliaments to Uphold,’ and commenced on October 1, 2023, and will conclude on October 5, 2023.

“The Caribbean, Atlantic and Americas Region of the CPA is also slated to meet during the CPC, at which time the Parliament of Guyana will formally accept the Secretariat of the Region for the next three years,” a release read.

The 66th CPC is being held in Accra, Ghana, by the CPA and Rt. Alban Bagbin, MP, Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana.
According to a press release: “The Parliament of Guyana is represented, at the Conference, by the Hon. Collin D. Croal, M.P., Minister of Housing and Water; the Hon. Warren Kwame E. McCoy, M.P., Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister; the Hon. Nima N. Flue-Bess, M.P.; the Hon. Dr. Asha Kissoon, M.P., Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Mr. Sherlock E. Isaacs, A.A., Clerk of the National Assembly; and Ms. Carlleta Charles, Parliamentary Executive Officer.”

It also read: “More than 500 Parliamentarians and parliamentary staff from across the Commonwealth are participating in this event which is seeing several workshops discussing critical issues such as, inter alia, climate change adaptation, the impact of population changes in small countries, the threat of terrorism, gender quotas in Parliaments, energy poverty and achieving sustainable trade and economic development, youth engagement and e-Parliaments.”