Guyanese OnlineIndigenous Heritage Month 2018 begins with religious ceremony
Sep 03, 2018 – Kaieteur News
A religious ceremony, led by the Jawalla Hallelujah Group, was held on Saturday to usher in Indigenous Heritage Month activities for 2018, at the Heritage Village, Sophia Exhibition Centre, Georgetown. Continue reading
THE GREAT ESCAPE, WW II History Revisited
The Great Escape Untouched for almost seven decades, the tunnel used in the Great Escape has finally been unearthed.
The 111-yard passage nicknamed ‘Harry’ by Allied prisoners was sealed by the Germans after the audacious break-out from the POW camp Stalag Luft III in western Poland.
Despite huge interest in the subject, encouraged by the film starring Steve McQueen, the tunnel remained undisturbed over the decades because it was behind the Iron Curtain and the Soviet authorities had no interest in its significance..
Discovery of ‘black gold’ gives Guyana chance to break free of poverty
By Mohamed Hamaludin –The South Florida Times
The 750,000 or so people of Guyana – about a quarter of the population of Miami-Dade or Broward counties in Florida, and among the poorest in the Western Hemisphere – are facing a very happy dilemma: how to spend a windfall of billions of dollars.
Should the money be distributed to the people or should it go towards infrastructure and other capital expenditure to make the English-speaking former British colony economically self-sufficient? Or should it be a combination of both? Continue reading
US delegation in Paramaribo, Suriname
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — In an unprecedented visit of its kind to Guyana and Suriname, two relatively obscure South American countries, a large congressional delegation from the United States visited Georgetown and Paramaribo last week.
Following US ExxonMobil’s announcements of its discovery of substantial oil reserves offshore Guyana, these two countries are drawing diplomatic attention from all corners of the world and more countries are set to open diplomatic missions there. Continue reading
Colonization: Deciding It’s OK to Steal Someone Else’s Land (and/or Body) – video
In the following presentation, Native American activist Ward Churchill offers ones of the most fascinating explorations of colonization I have ever encountered.
He maintains that indigenous people have an inherent right both to self-determination and to fulfill their duty to manage land and habitat to guarantee the survival of their descendants for seven generations into the future.
With colonization, colonists dispossess a native population of their land for some alternative use.
He explains the concept of “settler colonialism” – giving the Nazi occupation of Europe as the prime example (along with the Israeli colonization of Palestine, the European colonization of North and South America and the English colonization of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand).
He also introduces the concept of “false colonization,” which occurs when settlers continue to deprive native peoples of their land and rights despite breaking away from the mother country.
He blames the plight of African…
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