Comments on: Guyana’s Indigenous peoples: Still languishing on the periphery

By: janissa

janissa — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:59:26 +0000

The first indigenous lawyer in Guyana conducted a two week training in the Amerindian Act 2006 in Bina Hill in recent May and April for the community representatives and students of Bina Hill Institute .As a community representative i would like thank him a lot for he has done incredible and tremendous work in the Amerindian Act.Then a great article!!!

By: deb4393

deb4393 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:18:24 +0000

Great article! Thank you Mr. David James for your good work and focus on the issues at hand…
Definitely some of the suggestions by previous comments would make a difference in the title lands, especially around enforcement…
I can’t wait to go back to Guyana and meet with more Amerindians and hopefully they will be able to come visit us in Canada one day soon!

By: ms guyana

ms guyana — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:16:26 +0000

contact information for David James and his organisation should have been placed at the end of the article

By: rupman

rupman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:12:15 +0000

Can Mr James state the percentage of Indigenous People that work in the forestry and mining industries?
What are influential organisations such as APA doing to promote more involvement of qualified Indigenous People in the forestry and mining sectors? Are there any scholarships for young indigenous students who wish to pursue a career in those two industries?
The main reason why there is often a confrontational relationship between GGMC or GFC and the Indigenous communities is because of a fundamental lack of understanding on some of the main issues by both the government agencies and representatives of the Indigenous Peoples.
This lack of understanding can be reduced if there are qualified Indigenous persons to work in the forestry and mining industries. By being employed directly within the sectors would enable them to identify the mandates of the agencies. At the same time their Indigenous background and knowledge would assit the sectors in setting out guidelines that are compatible with the Indigenous Peoples.
I would therefore forward a suggestion to Mr James to try to encourage young indigenous students to pursue careers in Forestry and mining.
GGMC offers scholarships to UG in careers in mining and so does GFC in forestry programes. Very few of these scholarships are taken by Indigenous students.