President Irfaan Ali, on receiving the Global Africa Leadership Award in Ghana, identified himself as a minority who has risen to become the leader of his country. “Today, I’m proud to lead a country where the people elected a minority. I’m from the minority religion of Islam and the people of that country elected me as their president. That is ...
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WPA accuses Muslim organisations of using observations to stoke racial divisions with Indo-Guyanese
The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Thursday defended the right of a woman at the recently held Cuffy250 forum to characterise the role and status of Muslim women at home and at mosques,and accused two Muslim organisations of creating divisions between the party and Indo-Guyanese. In a joint statement, the Central Islamic Organisation (CIOG) and the Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) ...
Read More »Burke fires back at Jagdeo’s plan to “embarrass” participants at US Conference on discrimination in Guyana
New York-based Guyanese opposition political activist Rickford Burke has fired back at Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s plan to go after participants at a conference on alleged racial and political discrimination against Afro-Guyanese that is expected to be headlined Democratic Leader in the United States House of Representatives, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Mr Jagdeo clearly expressed his disgust at plans by ...
Read More »IDPADA-G tells UN forum time for assessments of Afro Guyanese, Afro-Caribbean peoples
The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) on Tuesday told the United Nations (UN) permanent forum for the people of African descent that the time has come for Guyana and other Caribbean states to assess and compensate Afro-Guyanese for their contribution to the development of the country. “It is imperative that the government establishes a national commission ...
Read More »NGO lays groundwork for Hate Crimes legislation lobby
The non-governmental Guyana Equality Forum (GEF) said Friday’s release of a report titled ‘Hate Crimes Reform’ marked the start of an intensive lobby for legislation to punish persons who perpetrate hatred against others based on their gender, gender identity, sexual orientation and race. “Hate crime legislation should also reflect a sufficiently broad range of protected characteristics to ensure protection for ...
Read More »Jordan recommends African Development Fund, scientific study of Afro-Guyanese socio-economic conditions
Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Sunday recommended the creation of an African Development Fund and urged the government-funded International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly – Guyana (IDPADA-G) to conduct a data-driven scientific study on the social and economic plight of Afro-Guyanese. While IDPADA-G has conducted an analysis of the historical condition of enslaved Africans and their descendants, ...
Read More »Time to force conversation on the distribution of Guyana’s oil wealth- Hughes, Hinds
African Guyanese were Sunday night- Emancipation Day Eve- urged to agitate for a national conversation on the distribution of Guyana’s oil wealth. Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes and Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Executive Member David Hinds issued stirring appeals in speeches at the “Buxton Black is Beautiful Emancipation Cultural Programme”. Mr Hughes recommended that an analysis be conducted to ascertain how much ...
Read More »Racial slurs at centre of policewoman’s GY$150 million defamation lawsuit against lawyer
An Afro-Guyanese policewoman, who has accused an Indo-Guyanese lawyer of using racial slurs against her while she was on duty at his father’s residence, is seeking GY$150 million in damages for allegedly defaming her. “By reason of the publication of the said column, the claimant has been severely injured in reputation, credit, subject to ridicule and lowered in the estimation ...
Read More »Roysdale Forde supports Harmon for PNCR leadership; says no room for ‘Black people party’ tribalism
Prominent Attorney-at-Law, Roysdale Forde Thursday night came out with a ringing endorsement of Joseph Harmon for the leadership of their People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), saying there was no place for a tribal or divisive leader. Mr. Harmon has also publicly accused the governing largely Indo-backed People’s Progressive Party (PPP) of discrimination against Afro-Guyanese. In hailing incumbent leader David Granger’s ...
Read More »Attorney General suggests APNU+AFC Walton-Desir’s comments illegal
Attorney General Anil Nandlall has indicated that utterances by opposition lawmaker, Amanza Walton-Desir violate Guyana’s laws. “Racial discrimination is a wrong. It is an illegal act. It is outlawed by the most Supreme Law of our country,” he said. Mr. Nandlall said Guyana’s Constitution protects citizens against racial discrimination. “Racial discrimination is something that the constitution protects Guyanese from as ...
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