Afro-Guyanese should lead national reparations efforts

David Hinds

Dr David Hinds and Dr Norman Ng-A-Qui say that the Afro-Guyanese community should be in total control of the management of the national efforts to seek reparations from former European colonisers.

The two men, who have ties to the Cuffy 250 Committee and the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA), agree with efforts by Caricom to solicit reparations from colonisers who once brought and forced Africans to work as slaves in varying capacities in colonies across the Caribbean.

However, in the case of Guyana, they say the country’s activities should be directed by the Afro-Guyanese community as