King Charles closes two-day Guyana visit at the Kingston Seawall
King Charles III closed his two-day State Visit to Guyana on Friday, October 30, at the Kingston Seawall, where he was briefed on Georgetown’s mangrove restoration project and greeted members of the public.
The Seawall stop was his last engagement in Guyana. He met participants in the Wilton Park Commonwealth Sustainable Cities Initiative Dialogue and heard about the effort to restore mangroves along Georgetown’s coastline. The briefing involved Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, mangrove coordinator Kene Moseley and National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) chief executive Jagnarine Singh.
Earlier on Friday, the King attended a reception for British businesses and local stakeholders celebrating innovation, enterprise and economic partnership. He also visited the Global Biodiversity Alliance Conference at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, where he met scientists, Indigenous community members and innovators and was briefed on the work of the Iwokrama International Centre.
The visit marked 60 years of relations between Guyana and the United Kingdom, and was the first visit by a reigning monarch to Guyanese soil in more than three decades. The King had arrived on Thursday, October 29, and began with a meeting with President Mohamed Irfaan Ali at State House, followed by a reception in the State House gardens.
The palace has said the King will not shy away from the legacy of slavery, but that apology and reparations are matters for the UK Government, which has reiterated that it will not pay financial reparations. President Ali has previously set out a development-focused reparations framework — financing, debt relief and targeted investment, rather than cash payouts — as his proposal.
From Guyana, the King travels to Antigua and Barbuda, where Queen Camilla joins him for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, running November 1–4.
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