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International Women’s Day

Moruca-born former Guyanese Foreign Minister honoured for outstanding achievements

Happy Christmas Guyana

Group photoof the honourees and Consuls General forthe International Women’s Day Reception(DPI photo)

GUYANA’S PermanentRepresentativeto the United Nations in New York and formerMinisterof Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, was, on Friday, honoured on the occasion of International Women’s Day by the Society of Foreign Consuls in New York, at its Annual Award Ceremony. According to a release from the Consulate General of Guyana in New York, the special ceremony was hosted at the Consulate Generalof Indiain New York. At this year’s event, fifteen women were awarded with a Certificate of Recognition by the Society for their outstandingachievements and contribution to community empowermentin the United States. The honourees were from Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, El Salvador, Guyana, India, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Peru, Serbia, and Türkiye. (continued on page 3).

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The Guyana Institute of Historical Research is a partner of the Guyana Cultural Association of New York. Professor Dr. Aubrey Thompson, of Morgan State University is the GIHR representative. The Institute is also a partner of the Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre.

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Editorial Team

Caribbean Life

Tangerine Clarke

Dawn Holder

James Rose

Office of the President

Office of the First Lady

Office of the Leaderof the Opposition

Stabroek News

Guyanese Online

Demerarawaves

GuyanaChronicle

GuyanaTimes

Caribbean Life

The

GuyanaBroadcastingCorporation.

Newsroom

Dennis Chabrol

KaieteurNews

Acknowledgements

Deon Abrams

Paul Moore

Dillon Goring

Tota Mangar

Nigel Westmaas

Timothy Crichlow

Fitz Gladstone Alert

David Hinds

Thomas Singh

Hazel Woolford

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It was noted thatshe created history as the first female and the youngestperson to hold this office. She was later appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in April 2008, and herelevation to this office made her the highest-ranking Guyanese of Indigenous descent in the governmental hierarchy. Then, in 2009, Foreign Trade and InternationalCooperation was added to her portfolio. The release explained that since its founding in 1925, the Society of Foreign Consuls in New York has represented the world’s largest diplomatic community. This unique organisation, whose members are gathered from the 113 NYC-based Consulates General, is steered by the Executive Committee made up of elected members representing all countries via regional groupings. The Society strives to promote good relations between the NYC Consular Corps and our hosts, New York and the United States of America.

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awardee, Ambassador Rodrigues-Birkett, was born in Moruca and she has reportedly accumulated over20 years of experience in the public sector, working with some of the mostvulnerable communities in Guyana, and in the international arena.

2001, Ambassador Rodrigues-Birkett became the youngest Minister in the Guyana’s Cabinet, having been appointed by then PresidentBharratJagdeo as the Ministerof Amerindian Affairs.

Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana’s Permanent Representative tothe UnitedNations (centre), Ambassador Michael E. Brotherson, Consul General of the Cooperative Republicof Guyana (right) and Marita Landaveri, President, The Societyfor ForeignConsuls in NewYork (DPI photo)

Observing International Women’s Day

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A joyous and festive Lunar New Year and Spring Festival to

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all!

The National Assembly of girls

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Changes with the second coming of age.

By ClementJ. Rohee

The first was our political independence from Great Britain. The second is our economic independence with the discovery of oil and gas

A clear and unquestionable factof life in Guyanais that the oil and gas industry is now a fully established reality, entrenched in the country’s national economy. Soon, this fact will find expression in the creative works of our poets, writers, comedians, playwrights, novelists and otherartistes justas they did with our rivers, forests, savannas, sugar, rice and our mineral resources.

At the same time, this phenomenon has broughtin its wake, a new situation whereby certain sections of the city of Georgetown are likely to lose that familial, if not romantic connection with those of us who were born and grew up in the city that is fast becomingone that neversleeps.

The possible loss of that connectedness, is compounded by the fact that some edifices in Georgetown remain standing only because the Atlantic winds are mild, the sea levels have not risen to threatening levels nor do we sufferthe consequences of naturaldisasters save forthe occasional floods due to heavy rain fall. Proprietary neglect is probably the fundamental reason for the rundown condition of those buildings.

In the humdrum of everyday city life, container hauler trucks and others laden with all kinds of huge funny lookingpieces of equipment, neverseen before butmostlikely related to the oil industry, can be seen moving up and down city streets. The whole country seems to be in the heady throes of a long economicboom.

An integral part of Guyana’s current economic boom is that there appears to be more contracts for infrastructural works than there are reliable contractors, skilled-men and laborers in the labour market. Of interest, there are some contractors who are workingovertime on two or three projects atthe same time. But that is only part of the big picture where numerous governmentfinanced infrastructuralworks are concerned.

On the human resource developmentside, there appears to be acute shortages. Accordingto the World Bank Resident Representative; ‘’Guyana has less than half of the needed technical skills in the areas of engineering, environmental specialists and welders only 49,6% of those skills are readily available.” We have to play ‘catch-up.’ GOAL scholarships have been introduced and while a significant number have enrolled, more takers are needed.

Decades ago, many Guyanese would have thought it absurd to imagine a free and open press, buttressed by social media that has produced a community of dispersed but enthusiastic letter writers who chose to express their views and ideas on topical issues that some might view as weird or preposterous. Similarly, very few Guyanese would have considered it impossible that non-coercive citizen cooperation such as the Men on a Mission initiative would have joined hands to build houses free of costfor seniorcitizens.

Of unimaginable proportions is the utilization of Guyana’s standingforests as carbon sinks that generate impressive financial resources from the sale of carbon credits, initially, for the benefitof our indigenous

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peoples. Years ago, it would have been unthinkable to accept that money could be garnered through whathas become popularly known as a low carbon developmentstrategy.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle and media noises created over the oil and gas industry, the State has initiated numerous events thatconnectand reconnectthe lives of Guyanese from allwalks of life. Events such as the recently concluded Energy Conference in Georgetown and the launch of the construction of the Berbice stadium and multipurpose facility at Palmyra, capture the ties that bring people together whether in city or country, obliging them to interact and to benefit from each other in one way or another.

I once suggested to a city taxi driverthat 10 to 15 years from now Guyanawill be a differentcountry and inquired of him how he plans to make use of the transformation, he couldn’t answer. I then suggested that he buy anothertwo or three cars and add them to the two he claimed he already had with a view to establishinga taxi service of his own. He accepted the advise.

On anotheroccasion, I put the same question to anothertaxi driverwho was more positive. He told me he was investing in a poultry farm on the Highway, his intention was sell eggs to supermarkets and Chinese restaurants and to eventually link up with larger poultry rearers on the eastbank.

Experiences of city life and the things we observe and learn by living in the city have, no doubt, helped form the scaffolding of our identity. The city is both the problem and the solution to the quandaries of its inhabitants everyday lives.

Being part of Georgetown is no longer determined by ownership or wealth, but by participation. In consequence, ouractions change and refine the city. Considerfor example, the people’s participation in the justconcluded Mash Day float parade.

It should be noted howeverthatthe massive replacementof private residences orknown city landmarks especially at corner spaces by humungus, glassified ten story buildings are proliferating but is often too subtle to notice.

For the elderly, and the physically disabled, Georgetown must be a territory of no-go areas, hidden threats and restrictions. Regrettably, there are places that no longer seem open to them since they would have lost their freedom of movement.

Guyanese stilllook forward to meetingat outdoorplaces in the city where they could congregate, relax and enjoy the ambiance.

A welcome sightis where some publicplaces are beingpopulated with trees resulting in the emergence of green spaces making them more people-friendly by providing cycling lanes, trees, lighting and outdoorseating.

Spaces that once fell into disuse for one reason or another are now being repurposed as public and green spaces, these can be seen at the Lamaha Boulevard; the walkway at JP Latchmansingh highway, the Kingston Beach Front;walk-ways along the East Coast and East Bank highways, the SeaWall and the PuntTrench Dam Boulevards and Parliament gardens

At the same time, we have lost some public spaces in the city without realizing it. The ‘urban renaissance’ or creeping modernization of Georgetown is slowly but surely changing much of what the city used to be. Sections of the city are experiencing modernity with high rise office buildings of steel, concrete and glass while hotels and shopping malls, restaurants as well as pricey supermarkets and boutiques are eitherspringing up or aboutto do so.

The Roman-Dutch architecture of buildings in certain parts of Georgetown such as Brickdam, Queenstown, Albertown, Bourdaand Lacytown have undergone dramaticchanges. Georgetown appears to be either in a constant state of transformation, demolition and rebuilding, but it is this repeated change that makes the city look vibrant. There are wards in Georgetown like Kingston, Bourda, Lacytown, Alberttown, Kitty and Worthmanville that have modernised infra-structurally, but still hold tight to architectural iconoclasms and tales rooted in Guyanese folklore.

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Georgetown is a city in flux, and transformation, many residents are movingout preferringto live in the new housingschemes and sub-urban gated communities outside the city. Change is inevitable, and the dismantling of old buildings sold to either the nouveau riche or to local or foreign entrepreneurs have not gone unnoticed.

It s pleasingto see the transformative work currently underway atthe old railway station currently being converted to a railway museum, a place for the exhibition and sale of local handicraft and a restaurant for local cuisine. The repurposed facility will serve as a tangible reminder to older folks and to educate young people about the location where trains that carried hundreds of passengers to and from Georgetown wereonce stationed.

In the meanwhile, Georgetown still lacks a modern transport system. Stabroek market square, the old ferry stelling, the east coast, the west bank, east bank and Berbice car parks have long become the locations where people must go in search of transportation irrespective of where they live in town or country.

On a daily basis, between 4.30 to 6.30 pm, in that section of the city, throngs of people can be seen headingout of the city in search of land or watertransportation. The morning hours between 7and 8.30 am are no differentwith hundreds enteringthe city from the same location.

It is in the context of these changes that we must accept, rather than reject the new realities that confront us whether we live in town or country. When one reflects on all the transformative occurrences that have happened and about to happen, astonishment would be a reasonable and appropriate reaction to the remarkable changes we are witnessing.

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The National Congress Of Women Region #10

WOMAN THOU ARE LOOSE!

YOU'RE NO LONGER A SLAVE TO FEAR!

THANK YOU ALMIGHTYGOD!

"Matthew 18:20 says "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."

Heart feltThank you to all those who played a part in making this eventasuccess!

Thank you to the Leaderof the PNCRand Leaderof the Opposition Cde. Aubrey Norton who graced us with his presence and encouraged the women to continue to work together.

Special Thank you to our NCW Chair Woman Volda Ann Lawrence who not only graced us with her presence butalso encouraged and charged the women to continue to hold the forward work in unity.

HeartfeltThank you to the following Mighty Men of GOD who graced us with their presence and Prayed with us!

Pst. Andy McKinnon

Pst. Reuben Stuger

Pst. Selwyn Sills

Pst. Rollingston Mitchell

Pst. Gordon Bishop

Pst. Romaine Ross

Bishop. Carl Allen

Special Thank you to the following Members of Parliamentforthe contributions!

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The National Congress Of Women Region #10, brought it's curtains down on Sunday 19th March,2023 with a Breakfastand A Prayerfor the month of celebrations forInternationalWomen's Month!

MP. Annette Ferguson Annette,

MP. AmanzaWalton Desir

MP:Natasha Singh

MP. Vinceroy HanselJordan

MP. Roysdale Forde

MP. Devin Sears

HeartfeltThank you to the following persons fortheircontributions and continued support:

Regional Chairman Region #10 Cde. Deron Adams, Her Worship The Mayor sister Waneka Arrindell, sisterCarol Smith Joseph, sisterSinettaLondon, sisterAltheaSealey, Sisters Bonita Montaque and AmabelClement, BrotherCharles Corbin, WURLDKLASSKLOTHING!

Last but in No way least Heartfelt Thank you to brothers Sharma Raheem Solomon and Dennis Muhammad aka brother Jafar for their continued support and contributions to our women and our beautifulcommunity of Linden and Region #10 and to all those who attended yourpresence was much appreciated!

To all the wonderfulladies of the NCW Region #10 especially those who worked beyond the call of duty and supported and contributed SpecialHeartfeltThank you to you my beautifulsisters!

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Birth anniversaries

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Carl Greenidge b.3March

Eddy Grant b. March 5.

Late PresidentHugh DesmondHoyte Francis Quamina Farrier b. 12 March b. 9 March

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Baroness Valarie Amos ClementRohee

Late President Cheddi Jagan b. 13 March b. 16 March b. 22 March

AndrewPercival Weeks

b. 31 March

Death announcement

Legal luminary Stanley Moore, 87, dies

LEGAL luminary and retired Justice, Senior CounselStanley Alfred Moore died on Friday,31 March, at his Kitty, Georgetown home. He was 87 years old.

The retired judge joined the BarAssociation on July 25, 1970. His legal careergoes beyond the Caribbean to the mostdistant lands of the African Continent, where he calls Botswana and Eswatini home. Eswatini, officially the Kingdom of Eswatini, was formerly renamed Swaziland.

Attorney Moore was born in New Amsterdam, Berbice. He was married to Cheryl Moore and was the fatherof five children, one of whom has since passed away.

In 1979, he acted as a judge in Guyana, and in 1990, he was the Attorney General in Montserrat. Then, in 1992, he became a Supreme Court judge in the Eastern Caribbean, spending his first stint in Grenada until 1996, and the second in the British Virgin Islands until 2000. After that, he joined the Commonwealth Bahamas Supreme Court.

Moore was born on July 1, 1935 to Olive Isabella Walcott-Moore and Llewellyn Cornett Moore. At age two, the family relocated to Thomas Street, Kitty, Georgetown. He also once served as a Ministerof Home Affairs in Guyana.

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Death anniversaries

OCTOBER 2Oth: REMEMBERING JANETJAGAN

By ClementJ. Rohee

There are few politicians, who on theirarrival on the political scene, bringwith them an air of freshness to the humdrum of local politics.

JanetJagan was one of such.

Born on 2Oth October1920, she broughtwith her a huge amountof freshness, thatpushed against the stale and male-dominated politics obtainingat the time in colonial British Guiana.e

Suffice it to say that the freshness of her appearance on the political scene was felt not only in the first years of her arrival in the colony, on the contrary, that freshness was manifested in thought, word and deed continued throughoutherentire life as a political leader, journalistand stateswoman.

Arriving in British Guianaas a White, attractive American woman, JanetJagan was, politically aware that coloured people in a colonial society would talk amongst themselves about their precarious lives, but would dare not implicate the high and mighty outside their company nor resort to political action to change that precariousness so typical of the colonial order.

Long before the digital age, and, under seemingly insurmountable conditions, compounded by limited resources, Janet Jagan turbocharged into the prevailing backward socio-economic conditions that shackled women as hapless victims of colonial rule.

What made her stand out as the primus inter pares amongst women, was her immersion in and advocacy of left-wing politics characterized by her anti-colonial, freedom-loving and internationalist outlook powered by her commitment and dedication to a national struggle to set Guyana free as an independentnation.

Left-wingorradical politics in those days was cast in the mode of anti-establishmentand to be engaged in subversive activities aimed at overthrowingthe established order.

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Janet Jagan

The political and social vineyards in which Janet Jagan laboured was cultivated by the Whitehallpedigreed sugarbarons and colonial overlords who shared the same class identity and unity of purpose in maintaining the existing order of oppression, suppression and exploitation of the poor and dispossessed.

Small wonder why in 1952, the satraps of the colonial powers squatting in the Legislative Council, moved and supported passage of the Subversive Literature Motion to ban the entry of progressive and anti-colonial literature into the colony.

JanetJagan ‘stormed the Bastille’ as it were, wagingbattle to educate women and men who laboured at the sugar plantations, the waterfront, the fields and factories as well as domestics, as they were known in those days, about theirfundamentalrights.

Janet Jagan’s groundings with the people in general, and mobilization of women in particular, were considered hostile and unfriendly acts by the colonial authorities who viewed her political activism as disruptive aimed at fomenting unrest in what the colonial authorities considered to be the ‘serene and benevolent’ orderof the day.

Stereotyped as a ‘White American Jew’ who had no place in Guyanese politics, racist epithets leveled against herneitherdistracted nordissuaded JanetJagan from discharging herheavy responsibilities with vigour and selflessness never seen before by any woman in the colony at that time. To her, life was as SamuelJohnson described it; ‘an arduous and tragic struggle with more to endure than to enjoy’. The 1960’s was probably the most difficult period in her political life. What today would qualify as crimes against humanity were perpetrated while she served as Minister of Home Affairs during the 1963-1964 period.

To this day, modern-day quasi ideologues who dislike Janet Jagan continue to label her, even in death, as a ‘hardliner’ and ‘Old Guard’ without having the slightest notion of her contribution to Guyana as a trade unionist, woman activist, politician, Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Minister of Government, Member of Parliament, diplomat, first ever Prime Minister and woman President of Guyana.

JanetJagan’s whiteness was neitherahumbugnor some ethnichonorific right of passage to meet, greet and ground with Guyanese workingpeople.

At bottom-houseand street-cornermeetings, Mrs Jagan spoke freely and understandably. She chose her words carefully duringdebates in parliamentand privately as at internal party meetings orat cabinet. In exceptional circumstances, she did not mince words in letting her interlocutor know what her views were on matters underdiscussion.

For a left-wingpolitician to run forpolitical office and win at elections was unprecedented in those days. But JanetJagan did justthat in 1953.

44 Years later, she was elected the world’s 22 Woman Head of State. Long before then, she helped dismantle legally, the sexist and structural barriers against women though many are still with us culturally to this day.

Images still linger in the heads of some who stubbornly refuse to accepther apology and ex planation for throwinga CourtOrder overhershoulder.

“Yes, I regret what took place and I wish to apologize for my action... I also wish to mention very categorically, that it had nothing to do with disrespectforthe laws or our Constitution.”

The brightest political act in another dark period of our country’s recent history was manifested when JanetJagan was sworn in on December18, 1997, as the fifth Executive Presidentof Guyana’s followingthe election where she won a stunning55.5 per centof the valid votes cast.

The significance of Janet Jagan, a White woman as president of Guyana was a phenomenon that was unfathomable and unacceptable forthe PNC’s leadership.

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Not finding one iota of corruption nor anything scandalous to pin on her, they turned to race and ethnicity, threats and violence to undermine and deprive herof the powerfulmandate handed to herby the electorate.

Asked how she felt about being elected President of Guyana she replied; “ I felt like I was going into a prison.”

It was perhaps, in that frame of mind after servingjustthree years in office that she agreed to cut short herterm in office in the wake of multiple violentprotests by the PNC.

According to Mrs Jagan; “If it had not been forthe responsible behaviorof the PPP/Civic, I’m afraid this country may have gone back into the abyss that we wentinto in the ‘60’s.”

On Saturday, 28th March 2009, JanetJagan passed away.

Her stellar reputation outshone the many challenges she faced given the weight of prejudices stacked against heras a woman.

Her feisty journalism and political stature was unquestionable;so was herpopularity inside the PPP and amongstthe electorate.

She entered the political scene at a time when politics was considered an exclusively male domain. But in the end, many were forced to accept heras a revolutionary fighterand leader.

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William Byron Orlando Michael

WilliamByron Orlando Michael (25 July 1957-30 March 2015)

Dr. Cheddi Jagan

REFLECTIONS:104th BIRTH ANNIVERSARYOF CHEDDI JAGAN

By Clement J Rohee

I have written and spoke so many times and in so many ways about Cheddi Jagan it is difficul not to repeatmyself and to regurgitate whathas been written and said so many times before.

On top of that, many who claim to know Jagan have written and said so many distorted and twisted information about him and his beliefs it is beyond comprehension. Up to this day, they continue to live in their web of lies and deception.

There is another bunch who sing praises to Jagan today since his passing; hypocritically they now shed crocodile tears for him claiming ‘if Cheddi was here he would not have done this or that’ though when he was alive he was considered theirbete noire!

Then there are Jagan’s loyal followers at home and abroad, also know as the ‘Jaganites,’ ‘old communists’ or the ‘old guard’ who are the torchbearers of his legacy and who defend and uphold the principles for which he stood doing so not in a dogmatic but creative way applicable to present-day realities as CBJ always did.

The point is that the principles and ideals Jagan stood for will live on. There will always emerge individuals, who though not knowingJagan personally would staunchly, openly, creatively and selflessly follow the undyingand living thoughts and work of CheddiJagan, a man of the people!

Twenty-eight(28) years ago, CheddiJagan called for a New GlobalHuman Order

Now more than ever, the world surely needs a New GlobalHuman Order!

I SALUTETHIS GREATSON OF THE SOIL!

LONG LIVE THE MEMORY OF CHEDDI JAGAN, FATHEROF THE NATION! CJR

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Recent publication

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GIHR Call for papers and abstracts for the Sixteenth Conference

Theme: Race relations, cultures and, politics

‘Latent effect’ (2021) by KeithAgard

Welcome reception

Date: 22 June 2023

Time: 6 pm.

Plenarysessions

CritchlowLabour College

Non Pareil park

Woolford Avenue

Thomas lands

Georgetown

Date: 23-24 June 2023

Time: 9am-5 pm daily.

Guyana Institute of Historical Research2023 Virtual Conference

Theme:Race relations, cultures and, politics

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Welcome reception

Date: 22 June 2023

Date: 23-24 June 2023

Time: 9am-5 pm daily

Abstracts and proposals will be accepted by 9 June 2023.

Hostedby the Guyana Institute of Historical Research

The Guyana Institute of Historical Researchis pleasedto call for papers and abstracts for its 16th Annual Conference.

For the 2023 conference, the committee will considerproposals on all aspects of Race relations, cultures and, politics, especiallyencouragingsubmissions that reflectonthis year’s theme; submissions that focus on other topics will also be entertainedbythe Committee. Submissions of preorganizedpanels and roundtables are strongly encouraged.

During the TWO days Conference, eachpanel will have 3-4 presenters (each20-15 min., respectively), possibilityof submissionof a partial sessionwith at least 2 presenters.

Panel, roundtable, and pictorial proposals will include the followinginformation:

followingcriteria:

Proposal explains the topic, researchquestions, methodologies, andhistoriographicsignificance in ways that specialists and non-specialists alike canunderstand. (10 points)

Proposal presents newfindings or revisions of long-heldinterpretations. (10 points) Panel proposals must include a panel title and 300-word abstract summarizingthe theme of the panel;paper title and a 300-word abstract for each paper proposed;and a one-page professional curriculumvitae for each panelist(includingthe chair and commentator).

Roundtable proposals must include a roundtable title, a 300-word abstract summarizingthe roundtable’s themes and points of discussion, and a one-page curriculumvitae for each participant (includingthe moderator, if any).

Individual paper proposals are also welcome and must include a papertitle, 300-word abstract of the paper, and one-page vita withcontact informationand email address. If accepted, individual papers will be assignedby the program committee to an appropriate panel with a chair and commentator. Volunteers, whowish to serve as chairs and commentators shouldsenda one-page curriculumvitae to one of the followingpersons:

GIHRConference specialist Syndrene Harris –syndrene.harris @uog.gy.com

Registrar Hazel Woolford –gihrinstitut@gmail.com

Proposals will be judgedaccording to the

Proposal addresses the conference theme. (5 points)

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Participants may presentone paper, serve on a roundtable, or provide panel comments. Theymay not fill more than one of these roles during the conference, withthe followingexception:Members who act as panel chairs may delivera paper, serve on a roundtable, or offercomments inanother session. You may invite persons through the print or social mediato be members of your panel. Members who serve as both the chair and commentator of a single sessionmay not presentin another session. If members attach themselves tomore than one proposal in violationof the above rules, then the first proposal that arrives will be consideredbythe program committee and any subsequentproposals that include that memberwill be rejected.

All the correspondence, otherthan relatedto paper abstracts submissionandacceptance, shouldbe sent by e-mail forthe Conference OrganizingCommittee, tothe attention of the GIHRConference specialist Syndrene Harris - syndrene.harris @uog.gy.com

The OrganizingCommittee wouldappreciate your familiarizingthe members of your research/teachingunit, as well as all interestedcolleagues, withthe presentAnnouncement.

Tours

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The venue for the Plenary sessions

Panels

1. Memorializinganeventin history .

a. 1763 Berbice revolution.

b. 1823 Demerara rebellion.

c. 1853. The arrival of the Chinese inBritishGuiana.

d. 1913 Rose Hall labour protest.

e. 1953 The suspensionof the Waddingtonconstitution.

2. The Diasporas: Historical and Contemporary

a. Twice deceived.

b. Illegal immigration.

c. Little Guyana.

d. The Caribbeannationals and colonials and the British government.

e. Kamla Harris, Jamaica and Modi.

3. Africans and the human condition.

a. Contributions of Africans to the Foundingof Civilizations

b. The trans-Saharan slave trade.

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c. Slave trade, slavery and manumission in Africa, Europe and the Americas.

d. Africans, apartheidand South Africa.

e. Migrants and Expatriates

f. Africans in India.

g. Afro-Futurism

4. Christianityand Indian immigration

a. The Presbyterianchurch.

b. Berbice HighSchool.

c. The Lutheran church.

d. Christianschool teacher inthe class room, practicing Hindupriestat home.

e. The plantation ownerand the religionof labourers.

5. Gender, women, race and, identity

a. The feminizationof the University.

b. Gender, womenand, small business.

c. Genderbasedviolence inthe plantationsociety.

d. People trafficking.

6. Libraries, special collections, and historical bibliographies.

a. The Academicteaching library.

7. Main trends in education

a. Education policy.

b. Teaching Caribbeanhistory in a plural society.

c. Adult educationand learning.

d. Future learning.

e. Politics and education.

f. Ethnic studies.

g. Caribbeanstudies.

h. Private schools

8. Business and ethnicity.

a. Plantation economyand businesses.

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b. Portuguese and businesses.

c. YesuPersaud.

d. The tea plantations and the Irish.

e. Industrialization.

f. Historyof the oil industry in Guyana.

g. Food and nutritionsecurity.

h. Parallel economy.

i. Cash transfers .

j. Socio economictransformation in Guyana and the Caribbean.

k. Guyana National Cooperative Bank.

9. Politics, trade unions and, Indians.

a. Jung Bahadur Singh

b. Jainarine Singh

c. MohammedAyube Edun

d. Cheddi Jagan

e. J.P. Latchmansingh.

10. Architecture

a. Gender, womenand prisons.

b. Architecture and school buildings inthe developingworld.

c. Architecture and the construction of hospitals.

d. The GeorgetownPublicHospital.

11. Pandemics in the colonies

a. The medical history in the colonies

b. Cholera

c. Malaria

d. Yellowfever

e. The influenzaepidemic.

f. Ebola.

g. Covid

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h. Monkeypox/small pox.

12. Culture and the Arts.

a. Indian art and artists

b. Doris Rogers

c. PhillipMoore

d. Monuments and public art.

e. Spirituality.

f. The writings of WalterRodney.

g. The creole world of Guyana and the Caribbean.

h. The Guyana prize.

13. International Relations.

a. The world economicorder.

b. Globalization.

c. Non AlignedMovement.

d. The Problemof Territorial Settlements.

e. The Commonwealthof nations and the former members of the British empire.

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REGISTRATION FORM.

Sixteenth Conference of the GuyanaInstitute of Historical Research

Venue of the plenarysessions:CritchlowLabour College

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Quotes of the President of Guyana

1. I rememberafew years ago stoppingby the mandir and the love that you shared with me and I just wanted to stop to spend some time with you in these very important few days of fasting, reflection, and spirituality one in which we renew our soul, one in which you are dedicating your time towards worship, towards doing yourbestin service to God, in service to humanity.

2. In terms of business, there are many proposals that are brought to us from aquaculture, the hydroponics, large scale agriculture, hotels, apartments, realestate on the whole, supermarkets, small manufacturing facility. As a matter of fact, very soon we’ll be opening an internationally branded plantain chip factory here in this region that will be adding value to plantains that is beingproduced here

3. We are going to push to ensure thatevery service we can provide as a people will be provided. I am now working on a plan to go much larger, one in which…every single centwe can mobilise as a country to invest in a business opportunity in the oil and gas sector…to create an infrastructure that all those investors can invest and one in which even ordinary Guyanese will be able to investso that they too can be part of the growth and development, notof this sector, but of all the opportunities around the sector. I will launch that very soon.

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4. This exercise allows us to understand the priorities of communities;the priorities of the region, so that when we develop our budgetary framework in the new year, we will be able to understand in a firsthand manner from the people directly what their priorities are, and what our interests should be.

5. What is interesting is a number of young persons, most of those who came forward in the housing programme and are applying are less than 25 years old; and that is a tremendous, tremendous accomplishment. When this government came into office in 1992, this region was heavily populated with squatting. Every single community had a majorsquattersettlement, and we have been able to regularise those communities, expand housing. And now creating great momentum in the socioeconomic advancementof this region

6. The Ministry of Local Government is also working on many community issues, whether it is drainage. We dealt with a number of agricultural issues. The region, the GOAL scholarship programme, the Ministry of Education, all of these agents, the Ministry of Health, they did tremendous work.

7. I am proud to belong to a country that honours and celebrates its ethnic diversity. Our people seamlessly participate in each other's religious and cultural festivals and traditions. In many ways, we can be a wonderfulexample to the world. The Governmentof Guyanawillcontinue to work assiduously to eradicate all forms of racism and racial discrimination and to ensure inclusive developmentwith equalaccess and sharing in Guyana's wealth.

8. This is why I am here because I value this investment that is being made, I value this move in modernising our healthcare system, and I understand how it interplays with our overall health care plan and developmentof the overallhealth ecosystem to deliverbetterhealth care to the people of our country.

9. We're going to work with you, we're going to partner with you in putting an additional 25 acres of land in red beans production thatwill go into the national production system.

10. …I don’tunderstand how people complain that they are oppressed and they are holdingguns in their hands. They are the majority in the army, in the police, and they still say they are oppressed. And they stillsay our problem is our own making. Anytime we turn those guns in the right direction it is over.

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Quote of the Leader of the Opposition of Guyana

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Did you know that 21 March is the InternationalDay for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination? On this day in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid “pass laws”. Proclaiming the Day in 1966, the UN General Assembly called on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination. Against the alarming rise of xenophobia, racism and intolerance, the UN Human Rights Office has launched its #FightRacism campaign to foster a global culture of tolerance, equality and antidiscrimination.

For this year’s observance of 21 March, the #FightRacism campaign will spotlight global figures who are combating discrimination in sports and will partner with the EuroLeague Basketball to promote a message of unity.

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In 2020, #FightRacism will highlight the advocacy of some leading figures of global popular culture –sports, music, fashion, movies, TV, amongstothers – to advance equality and anti-discrimination. 21 March is also an opportunity to focus attention on the InternationalDecade for the People of African Descent, who constitute some of the world’s poorestand most marginalized groups. Five years afterthe Decade’s launch in 2015, the UN General Assembly will conduct a critical mid-point review, assessing what countries have accomplished and identifying actions to be taken to improve the human rights situation of Afro-descendants. Studies and findings by international and national bodies demonstrate that people of African descentstill have limited access to quality education, health services, housingand social security. UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bacheletwill be speakingabout the mid-pointreview at the Human Rights Council.

Join us and take action to #FightRacism. Every day, each and every one of us can stand up against racial prejudice and intolerantattitudes.

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I fearthat the world is reachinganotheracute momentin battling the demon of hate.

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