Guyanese ex-con trying to help West Indian youths find their place in Canada

Guyanese Sherina Naraine, left, is interim president of the Guyanese Association of Waterloo Region and Kris Ally is the chair. Ally, a former convict, is trying to help at-risk West Indian youths in Canada. (Photo sourced from The Waterloo Region Record/therecord.com)

When Guyanese Kris Ally decided to organise the inaugural all-ages NYE 2K12 Show & Dance, to be held in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada tonight, he had the events of his past which led to a criminal conviction firmly in mind.

With the New Year’s Eve event, Ally hopes to bring Guyanese migrants to Canada together with the wider West Indian community at a celebration of West Indian culture, as a way of helping the younger immigrants in particular to avoid the path he once tread.

“If it had been around when I was a