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Umana Yana attracts protest over 1823 Monument site
The protesters
A group of persons from the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) along with newspaper columnist, Freddie Kissoon, Tuesday staged a protest in front of the Umana Yana, Kingston, against the government’s decision to place the 1823 monument at the seawall.
The monument will be erected in recognition of the historic 1823 Demerara slave rebellion, in which enslaved Africans working on sugar plantations revolted and were killed.
On Tuesday, a member from ACDA questioned the reason for the government placing the monument on the seawall which has nothing to do with the seawall.
“They have decided to put the monument at the seawall, but the place that is more suitable is the Parade Ground because that is the execution ground; that is where the leaders of the 1823 revolts were killed,” ACDA’s member, Penda Guyan said.
According to Clementine Marshall, another member from ACDA, “The 1823 monument has nothing to do with the seawall.”
The persons are demanding that the monument be placed at the Parade ground.
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