The Region Ten Organizing Committee for the 2011 International Year for People of African Descent has already launched its programme of activities which will give effect to the UN Resolution that calls for “strengthening (of) national actions and regional and international cooperation for the benefit of people of African descent…”
The committee said in a release that the launching took place on November 19 at the LEN Macaw Training Room and was attended by a wide cross-section of the Linden community, including school children from several secondary schools, youth and sports groups, representatives of regional government and the business and religious communities.
The guest of honour was Professor Tony Martin, a recognized authority on the influential Marcus Garvey. According to the release, the committee sees the year as an opportunity to sensitize people on an international scale about the “commencement of remedial actions necessary to cure the regressive effects of African peoples of a more than 1,500-year long genocide against Africans…”
Also speaking at the launching ceremony were
