Extend Amerindian Heritage Village activities to ten days

Jul 31, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana (TAAMOG) is reliably informed that the one week of Amerindian Heritage celebrations at Heritage village, Sophia will now only be held for three days (1-3rd Sept 2017).
This is totally inconsiderate and unacceptable since Indigenous Peoples from Guyana’s ten administrative regions will converge at heritage village to display their products, cuisine, beverages and handicrafts and within three days many of these items will not be sold out leaving Indigenous vendors and exhibitors at a total loss and disappointed with Amerindian Heritage Month September 2017.
TAAMOG is therefore appealing to the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs (MOIPA) to abandon its reckless decision made without consulting Indigenous vendors and instead reschedule Amerindian Heritage Month September 2017 celebrations at Heritage village, Sophia from the 1-10thSeptember 2017.
In this regard, TAAMOG propose two simple solutions. (1), the MOIPA manages the Heritage Celebrations at heritage village from 1-3rd September 2017 and (2), the Indigenous Peoples caucus (NTC& Amerindian Organizations) takes over from 4-10th September 2017. If this is not possible with the MOIPA, then another venue will have to be sought.
Amerindian Peoples Heritage Celebrations in September of every year are not about sadness, but joy and happiness in the displaying of their cultural heritage passed down to them by their ancestors. But it seems apparent that the MOIPA is slowly moving away from the culture of Indigenous Peoples. Wake up MOIPA!
Peter Persaud

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