Open Letter to President Irfaan Ali from IDPADA-G

Apr 02, 2023 Letters

Your Excellency,

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) was established with the objective of providing an institutional approach, by the African Guyanese community, for the pursuit and attainment of the goals of the United Nations Decade – broadly reflected in its themes of Recognition, Justice, and Development for the People of African Descent.

Such goals, while being pursued by the community itself, cannot be achieved without the facilitation of the State and the Government in particular. To that end IDPADA-G wrote to you requesting a meeting. The letter was delivered to your office on July 12, 2022 and again on August 2, 2022. The Chairman also sent a similar written request on September 5, 2022. In response we received oral commitments from you on three occasions; however those commitments have not fructified.

With the passage of time that meeting continues to be outstanding. It is self-evident that good relations between the Government and IDPADA-G are central to improving the overall relationship with the African Guyanese community. With that in mind, given the thorny relationship between the Government and people of African Descent, constructive engagement between the Government and IDPADA-G is evidently urgently needed at this time.

We therefore look forward to enhanced engagement between the Government and IDPADA-G as a representative body of African Guyanese who are concerned about issues including land rights, greater tolerance and respect for dissenting views, equity, and fair competition.

Given the clear need for an urgent engagement as a consequence of the emergent situation, IDAPADA-G once again requests a meeting with Your Excellency to discuss matters pertaining to the Decade as well as current and looming problems manifesting themselves.

IDPADA-G therefore looks forward to an urgent meeting with you and to your attention and consideration in the interest of pursuing the goals of the Decade and deescalating the current tensions.

Vincent Alexander

Chairman

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