26/05/2016
Mayor receives Deputy Mayor of Newark, NJ who is involved in Roatan's energy project - http://bit.ly/1sA7cFg
Yesterday at noon the Vice Mayor of Newark, Ugochuko Nwaokoro was received upon arrival in Roatan by Mayor Dorn Ebanks, members of the Corporation, municipal officials and the special presence of the Presidential Designee Lorena Herrera Estevez, who arrived accompanied by her husband.
This visit aims to share experiences and boost the work Mayor Dorn Ebanks is doing in renewable energies.
Garifuna and traditional dances welcomed the Deputy Mayor, who also demonstrated his skills as a dancer as well as the Municipal Chief and the other personalities present.
Mr. Nwaokoro declared to be very happy in his first visit to Roatan and that he felt at home. He also explained that he is in the search and also has a task to engage in renewable energy and at the same time expects that Roatan can change its energy matrix into a renewable, and that is one of the purposes for which he is visiting Roatan."
He added that "Very important global representatives will arrive like individual investors and scientists, in this week and we will discuss global issues and locally, how it is that Roatan could benefit from new, green and also clean energy. "
Mayor Dorn Ebanks said Mr. Nwaokoro "comes to bring us new hope, with respect to renewable energy and our ambitious project to convert Roatan in a carbon neutral community or rather, zero carbon. And he has come because we had several approaches starting in the continent of Africa where we met in the country of Ghana it's capital called Accra, then again we were in Bogota, Colombia, with Colombian scientists into electrical energy and then in Germany, and now in Roatan. It means it is a line-up to carry out this project that is not just local, that is a global project. "
The presidential designee, who had previously visited Roatan on the occasion of the signing of the Declaration of Paris with the UN Advisor Djibril Diallo, said that "this is the fruit of the work done by the Mayor of Roatan when we went to Africa to represent the Government of Honduras in a conclave that was of African descent worldwide leaders and then we made an approach with Mr. Vice Mayor of Newark and he was interested what we are doing here in Honduras and he was interested what our Mayor of Roatan is doing. That's the reason why he's here today to share experiences and come to also stimulate the work the Mayor is doing right now in Roatan."
She also shared the agenda that will develop in the coming days: "He'll be on tour here on Roatan and will be on tour also on the mainland, they will go to Tegucigalpa, will have several meetings in which they will present what the alternatives are concerning renewable energy."
