Prize Giving Ceremony for World Ozone Day Competition

The Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources distributed prizes to the winning participants in the National Ozone Unit’s Poster Competition where kids were asked to submit poster on ozone layer depletion and saving the ozone layer.

This country is signatory to the Montreal Protocol and is obligated to phase out substances that damage the ozone layer together with all other 197 signatories. The children were able to display creatively the value of the ozone layer being a natural UV shield, without which life on earth can be harmed by UV rays causing skin cancer, eye cataracts and weakened immune systems.  Trinidad and Tobago has phased out all imports of the refrigerant chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) since 2008 and is now phasing out hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) since January 1, 2013.  From the start of this year all assembled HCFC equipment such as R 22 air conditioning units are no longer allowed. The posters below are from the winning entries in the two categories Andrew Raghunanan (shown first)  and Stacey Jagoonanan (shown second) and all the  prize winners of the Competition (shown last).