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Aug 05, 2015 News
…supports calls for reparation
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has called for Guyanese to be conscious of the new challenges to citizens and the nation’s freedom.
Speaking with reporters at the Emancipation Day festivities at the National Park last Saturday, Mr. Nagamootoo noted that the nation faces challenges which seek “to conquer us, to enslave us, once again.” At the time the PM was referring to Venezuela’s recent claim on Guyana’s Essequibo region and its maritime borders.
To this end, he said that the spirit of the country’s African ancestors, to resist and fight against oppression and domination, “is still a live fight.”
“We cannot separate the struggle of African people for liberation, the struggle for a nation state of all of our Guyanese people, from this new challenge to take away what we have, that is, our nationality, our identity and what we are – a Guyanese people.”
Noting that Emancipation Day is an event for all races, the Prime Minister added that the struggles and resistance of the country’s African ancestors are sources of inspiration; as such, said spirit is at the heart of any fight against injustices and wrongs.
The African fight, he said, is not over, because there is still a debt that is owed.
“Since slavery benefitted many European powers of the time with repercussions to this day, there is resistance for the recognition of that fact, even for a moral debt to be paid.” The PM affirmed that the new administration fully supports the resistance for repatriation.
Thousands of Guyanese turned out at the National Park to join the annual Emancipation celebrations, hosted by the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA.) This year, the ACDA’s event was commemorated under the theme “Rekindling Our Past Glory Through Youth Innovation”.
The grand celebrations at the National Park featured a number of songs, dances and other cultural displays by both local and overseas performers. Performers included the Djoniba Dancers from the USA, Blakk Rasta from Ghana, and from Guyana, recently crowned Miss World Guyana Lisa Punch, Natural Black, Mystic Dance Group, Devine Star, X Factor, Charmaine Blackman, Junior Calypso, Shantel Gittens and former Chutney King, Roger “Young Bill Roger” Hinds.
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