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STORY: BARBUDA / DSG AMINA MOHAMED VISIT
TRT: 03:30
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 31 MAY 2024, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
31 MAY 2024, HELIPORT, ST JOHN’S, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
1. Wide shot, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and her delegation walking towards helicopter
2. Various shots, view of Antigua from helicopter
3. Various shots, UN Deputy Secretary-General and her staff watching
4. Med shot, helicopter radar map
31 MAY 2024, AERIAL VIEW OF BARBUDA
5. Wide shot, resort destroyed by hurricane Irma in 2017
6. Med shot, DSG Amina Mohammed taking picture
31 MAY 2024, CODRINGTON, BARBUDA
7. Various shots, DSG Mohammed, staff from Green Barbuda Hybrid Solar energy plant, solar panels, Knacyntar Nedd Charles, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Trade & Barbuda Affairs, hybrid solar plant manager
8. Tilt up, delegation watching solar panels
9. Various shots, DSG Mohammed and Senator on a boat visiting fishing preservation lagoon
10. Various shots, DSG Mohammed with fisherman, opening a conch
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohamed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Well for me, coming to Barbuda is an expression of the day after commitments are made in a conference that should have a reality to it. And so visiting here, seeing women’s leadership, visiting what is a green transition with their power here, but also looking at the livelihood and what is the opportunity to scale that up, to make it more resilient. To make sure that young people have jobs, that women see a future and really this is the reality check that we have to do of ABAS (the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Development States).”
12. Wide shot, DSG talking to Senator Charles
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Knacyntar Nedd Charles, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Trade & Barbuda Affairs:
“No other island has faced what we have faced, and I can only say that’s a category five plus hurricane. The damage was astronomical, and Barbudans are resilient people and of course, with partnerships such as the UN we are able to build back and to build back better and stronger.”
14. Wide shot, DSG waving from helicopter
15. Various aerials, Barbuda
16. Wide shot, aerial of Antigua
Visiting the island of Barbuda, on the wake of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) in Antigua, UN Deputy-Secretary-General Amina J. Mohamed said, “Coming to Barbuda is an expression of the day after commitments are made in a conference that should have a reality to it.”
The Deputy SG witnessed several projects that enhanced the twin Caribbean island’s resilience, including hurricane resistance facilities.
Accompanied by the country’s Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Trade & Barbuda Affairs, Knacyntar Nedd Charles, she visited the Green Barbuda Hybrid Solar energy plant, combining solar and diesel energy with a capacity of 863 kWh battery storage.
They also met with a fishermen’s community organized as the so-called Fisherfolk Association riding on a boat tour on the protected lagoon where lobsters and conch can grow naturally.
Mohammed said, “visiting here, seeing women’s leadership, visiting what is a green transition with their power here, but also looking at the livelihood and what is the opportunity to scale that up, to make it more resilient. To make sure that young people have jobs, that women see a future and really this is the reality check that we have to do of ABAS (the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Development States).”
Senator Knacyntar Nedd Charles welcomed the UN’s support.
She commented, “No other island has faced what we have faced, and I can only say that’s a category five plus hurricane. The damage was astronomical, and Barbudans are resilient people and of course, with partnerships such as the UN we are able to build back and to build back better and stronger.”
