Video: Indigenous Peoples Commission seeking more funds for outreaches

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman receives a copy of the Indigenous Peoples Commission’s report for 2012 from Chairperson Doreen Jacobis. (Photo by Arian Browne)

Lack of funding combined with logistical hurdles have proven to be the biggest setbacks in getting members of the Indigenous Peoples Commission (IPC) to Amerindians in the hinterlands to discuss issues affecting them.

“Our resources [are] small, we have a small budget… some of the villages are very far, outlying, and geographically and it cost a lot of monies. Some villages are only reachable by airplane