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Bing Serrão & the Ramblers, this Sunday Aug 2 @ 2:00 PM!
The story of the Ramblers goes back to around 1950 in Georgetown, British Guiana when the last three siblings of the Serrão family started playing with make-believe guitars, made of empty herring cans with a wooden pole protruding, and four rubber bands with wooden heads to “tune” the guitar. In 1953, the Serrão brothers formally started the band. Continue reading →
PEOPLE’S NATIONAL CONGRESS REFORM
Aug 01, 2020 Kaieteur News
On the 182nd Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Slaves, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) joins other Guyanese organizations and the Guyanese people in general, in commemoration of this most important milestone in our country’s march towards social and economic independence.
On the first of August 1838, descendants of Africans in Guyana regained their freedom after two centuries of enslavement. Every August, therefore, it is fitting that the entire Guyanese nation should participate in the public celebration to commemorate not only the bloody sacrifices of the Africans who struggled, suffered and were slaughtered for the sake of the freedom we all enjoy today but also the birth of the nation itself which was the consequence of Emancipation.
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Emancipation Day 2020 – Message from President David Granger
President Granger and First Lady, Sandra Granger
Aug 01, 2020 Kaieteur News
Africans endured enslavement in the Guiana colonies for 200 years before achieving their Emancipation 182 years ago on 1st August 1838. They laid the foundation for the freedoms enjoyed by every Guyanese today.
Emancipation was not a generous gift of the European slave trading empires. Africans resisted enslavement and fought for freedom in the great revolts in Berbice in 1763, in Demerara, in 1823 and in Essequibo, in 1834 and at other times in other places. Continue reading →
Emancipation of Slaves – 1834
THE EMANCIPATION ACT ENDS SLAVERY
Slavery was abolished in the British West Indies with passage of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. The British did not immediately shift to free labor. A system of apprenticeship was implemented alongside emancipation in Britain’s Caribbean possessions that required slaves to continue laboring for their former masters for a period of four to six years in exchange for provisions. Apprenticeship was abolished by each of the colonial assemblies in 1838.
The campaign for the end of slavery gained momentum in Great Britain and it was expected that slaves in the British colonies would soon be set free. Finally, on the 28 August 1833, the House of Commons in England approved the Emancipation Bill which was earlier introduced by Thomas Buxton.
The final Act, which would come into effect on 1 August 1834, stipulated that: Continue reading →
Aug 01, 2020 
Pickering Ontario welcomes Bing Serrão and the Ramblers: this Sunday August 2 @ 2:00 PM!
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Destination Pickering welcomes: Tune in to watch live
Bing Serrão & the Ramblers, this Sunday Aug 2 @ 2:00 PM!
The story of the Ramblers goes back to around 1950 in Georgetown, British Guiana when the last three siblings of the Serrão family started playing with make-believe guitars, made of empty herring cans with a wooden pole protruding, and four rubber bands with wooden heads to “tune” the guitar. In 1953, the Serrão brothers formally started the band. Continue reading →
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