ACDA presses case for ancestral lands inquiry
The African Cultural & Development Association (ACDA) yesterday reissued its call for an ancestral lands commission to address concerns surrounding the allocation of African Guyanese lands, as the third day of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into land ownership convened yesterday.
Executive Member of the organisation Violet JeanBaptiste told the commission that in 2007 the organisation would have penned letters to then President Bharrat Jagdeo requesting that the Government set up a commission to address the issue of African ancestral lands.
Tension flares between toshaos council, ministers
Three Executives of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) last evening walked out of a session attended by several Ministers of Government having felt disrespected