The Honorable Warren Kwame Eusi Mc Coy was appointed to a ministerial portfolio in the Cabinet of His Excellency, President Mohammed Irfaan Ali on August 5^th, 2020, and to a seat in the 12^th Parliament of Guyana, following the electoral victory of the Peoples Progressive Party-Civic at the March 2^nd General and Regional Elections.

Minister Mc Coy, who holds responsibility for Public Affairs, and who’s functions are embedded within the Office of the Prime Minister, brings to the portfolio a wealth of experience in media, strategic communication management, and executive administration; having accumulated more than two decades of professional industry experience.

Mc Coy started his career in broadcast journalism with the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation in 1993, and later moved on to serve as an Information Officer with the Ministry of Information between 1998 and 2001. He would spend another six years honing public relations skills with the Ministry of Health, before being elevated to the prominent senior role of Communication Coordinator/Press Officer within the Office of the President, where he served with distinction until the change of government in 2015.

During the years prior to the reelection of the People’s Progressive Party-Civic to government in 2020, Mc Coy administered the communication and coordination portfolios in his role as Executive Assistant to the then Leader of the Opposition, former President and now Vice President, His Excellency Bharat Jagdeo.

Some of the outstanding accomplishments for which Minister Mc Coy is credited, include the founding and development of the National Youth Parliament; fostering stronger and deeper regional communication for the integration movement through a CARICOM Youth Ambassadorship; advancing the rights and protection of children as a Commissioner of the ‘Rights of the Child Commission’; and consolidation and modernization of the State Media  apparatus as a Board Director and through his information liaison and oversight role at the Office of the President.

Minister McCoy holds a Master of Political Marketing from the Rome Business School, and a Graduate Certificate in Public Relations. He is also professionally accomplished and certified in the areas of media ethics, media and broadcast journalism, and crisis and strategic communication management.

Minister Kwame McCoy is now entrusted with the task of furthering the advancement of the consolidation and modernization of the state media and communication apparatus, while expanding the reach of government communication to community levels nationwide, and across the digital and social media spectrums to reach Guyanese at home and abroad.

His passion and drive for bridging social and developmental gaps between the citizenry and their elected officials through the power of communication, will see the Minister leveraging the resources at his disposal in a concerted effort to better connect citizens with their government, while concomitantly strengthening the Public Affairs outlook of the Executive and their supporting public agencies.

Sharon Claydon is a fifth-generation Novocastrian. She was first elected in September 2013, becoming just the sixth Federal Member for Newcastle since Federation in 1901.

Sharon is an Honours graduate in Anthropology and, before entering Parliament, worked in remote Aboriginal communities and the community-based disability services sector. She also served in local government as a Newcastle City Councillor.

In the Federal Parliament Sharon is the Deputy Speaker.

Sharon is the Chair of the Joint Select Committee on Parliamentary Standards. She is also a member of the House of Representatives Committees for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Appropriations and Administration and Privileges and Members' Interests, as well as the Joint Standing Committee for National Capital and External Territories.

She has previously served as a member of the Reference Group on the National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse.

As a member of the Federal Labor Caucus, Sharon is the Chair of the Federal Labor Caucus and Labor's Status of Women Committee. She is also the Commonwealth of Australia representative to the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Steering Committee for the Australia region.

Sharon is committed to social justice and throughout her career has worked to improve the lives of working people. She is passionate about fighting discrimination and ensuring we leave a better world for the next generation.

George Amoh is the Executive Secretary of the National Peace Council of Ghana. The Peace Council was established by an Act of the Ghanaian Parliament in 2011 (Act 818)

He has over 22 years professional experience in the fields of Conflict/Peace, governance, human rights, project management, data management and community development. He gained these experiences in public office, private and civil society working environments.

Mr. Amoh holds an MA in Social Work from the University of Ghana, and a second MA in Human Rights from the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. Additionally, he has a post graduate Diploma in Human Rights, from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the University of Lund in Sweden and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from the University of Ghana. Currently, he is pursuing PhD programme in Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Cape Coast.

Mr. Amoh has had considerable experience working as workshop facilitator for institutions including, the World Bank, Ghana Anticorruption Coalition (GACC), the Legal Aid Scheme the School of Public Health, Legon, short course on Ethics, part-time teacher in contemporary issues at the Methodist University College, Action Aid Ghana among others. Besides, he has facilitated several training programmes in most parts of Ghana, and also participated in both international and local workshops and conferences in capacities such as facilitator, discussant, panelist or ordinary participant.

At the Peace Council, where he serves as the Executive Secretary, he was a key facilitator for the 2016 and 2020 High Level Meetings that brought all the presidential candidates for the signing of the Peace Accord in Accra. In 2019 he served as the convenor and the interface between the National Peace Council Mediation Team on the Dialogue against Vigilantism and the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party.

In terms of interfaith Dialogue, he was the convener of dialogues, particularly, among Christians and Muslims in Ghana in Ghana at the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Centre (KAIPTC) in 2015 regarding the issue of the “Hijab”. Currently the National Peace Council is supporting the Ministry of Education Service to develop an MoU to guide the conduct of religious activities in the Senior High Schools. He is currently, training and facilitating workshops across Ghana, to build resilience against violent extremism and terrorism.

Prior to joining the National Peace Council, Mr. Amoh had worked for the Commission on Human Rights & Administrative Justice, the Legal Aid Scheme, and Ghana Integrity Initiative, all located in Ghana, in different capacities.

On several occasions, he has been invited by International Institutions including the EU, UNDP, AU, ECOWAS, and governments namely, South Sudan and Sierra Leonne, the Gambia among others to share the experiences of establishing a National Infrastructure for Peace (I4P).