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Wednesday february 7th 2024, Georgetown, Guyana.
The government of Guyana and FAO launched the 38th Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean.
The event was attended by Guyana's Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, Guyana's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hugh Todd, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, Mario Lubetkin, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Guyana, Yeşim Oruç, Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Carla Barnett and Gillian Smith, FAO Representative in Guyana.
The Regional Conference is held every two years and brings together the governments of all 33 Member States of FAO in Latin America and the Caribbean to establish the regional priorities of the Organization for the next biennium.
Photos: ©️Courtesy Minister of Agriculture of Guyana
Belém Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Belém, pronounced [ˈtoʁɨ ðɨ βɨˈlɐ̃j]; literally: Bethlehem Tower), officially the Tower of Saint Vincent (Portuguese: Torre de São Vicente) is a 16th-century fortification that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon. It symbolises Portugal's maritime and colonial power in early modern Europe. It was built during the height of the Portuguese Renaissance, and is a prominent example of the Portuguese Manueline style, but it also incorporates other architectural styles, such as the minarets, which are inspired by Moorish architecture. The structure was built from Lioz limestone, a material local to the Lisbon region, and is composed of a bastion and a 30-metre (100 ft), four-storey tower.
Since 1983, the tower has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the Jerónimos Monastery. It is often portrayed as a symbol of Europe's Age of Discoveries and as a metonym for Portugal or Lisbon, given its landmark status. It has incorrectly been stated that the tower was built in the middle of the Tagus and now sits near the shore because the river was redirected after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. In fact, the tower was built on a small island in the Tagus river near the Lisbon shore. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%A9m_Tower.
This was well worth the queue of over an hour and fifteen minutes when I visited the day prior. A fascinating place.
This photo was taken from aboard P&O Cruises - MS Iona - IMO: 9826548, on 20/11/2024, which having reversed away from the cruise terminal on the Tagus river and has done a 180° turn to begin her journey back to Southampton, where she would arrive in the early morning of 23/11/2024, has now passed under the iconic 25 de Abril Bridge. Iona had arrived here in the morning of 19/11/2024, for a two day visit, after an overnight sail from Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain.
The Tagus is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. It rises in the Montes Universales between Cuenca and Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows 1,007 km, generally westward, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean, not far from where this photo was taken.
MS Iona was completed on 09/10/2020 by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany. She was laid down on 29/05/2019, launched on 18/02/2020 and Christened by Dame Irene Hays(Hays Travel), on 16/05/2021 with her maiden voyage on the 07/08/2021. She is from the Excellence Class of cruise ships and is British registered in Southampton. She has a GTW of 184,089, has nineteen decks of which eighteen are passenger accessible, eleven of those with cabins, giving a maximum passenger capacity of 5,206 and 1,762 crew. She is powered by Wärtsilä LNG engines giving a total installed power of 67.1MW(82,700hp) giving a service speed of around 17 knots.
The itinerary was: Southampton - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain - Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain - Cádiz, Spain - Lisbon, Portugal - Southampton. © Peter Steel 2024.
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