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Please join us for a special Guyana SPEAKS event reflecting on the Portuguese in Guyana.
It takes place this coming Sunday, 15th August at 3pm BST / 10am GYT & EDT / 11am ADT. Our distinguished speakers are: Dr Joanne Collins-Gonsalves, Salvador De Caires, Bruce Nobrega and Maggie Harris. They will be talking on a variety of topics including the history of Portuguese indentureship and culture, 18th century Jewish-Portuguese, Portuguese cuisine and poetry.
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– by Francis Quamina Farrier – By Mohamed Hamaludin
This is the second installment in a series on the debt which the United States owes to African Americans. The first installment dealt with the need for an apology for slavery.
Britain passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833 and agreed to compensate slave-owners for loss of their “property” by borrowing 20 million pounds sterling, amounting to 40 percent of its national budget, equivalent to billions of dollars today.
Britain paid off that debt only in 2015, with taxpayers footing the bill all along, a fact not generally known until the Treasury mentioned it in a 2018 tweet and political activist Raheem Kassam posted the information online. USA Today followed up with a fact-checking June 30, 2020, deeming it true. The slaves got nothing; it was reparations for the slavers, not the enslaved. Continue reading
GUYANA: Gas to Shore Initiative – Contradictions by Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo – Opinion
— Jagdeo is in a maze of his own confusion!
Reeling from the massive pushback against the PPP/C’s pet project – the gas-to-shore initiative – second Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo, appeared on a TV interview in a desperate attempt to try to overcome the criticisms of the proposed project. Instead, all he did was to knot himself up in the maze of his own confusion.
Jagdeo is now changing his tune. When he was cornered over the absence of a Depletion Policy, his response was that there was a narrow window for fossil fuels since the world was moving towards renewables. As such, he implied that Guyana had to maximise its oil extraction in the limited period available. Continue reading →
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