We’re a global people, of poor self-image

Guyanese now span the global village. We’re a global people, a 21st century nation in every sense of the word, with our homeland nesting comfortable, peaceful, pastoral, forest green, sunny yellow, multicultural, between the giant Amazon and the gigantic Atlantic.

Being part of the Commonwealth Caribbean, we enjoy such a blessed homeland, with the natural environment so serene. Guyanese all over the world dream, with great nostalgia, about our homeland with fondness and warm pleasure in the heart.

The Guyanese Diaspora spans the world, and we’re all knitted together as one people, sharing the common homeland. Even a guy like Jay Jordan, whose parents migrated to Canada in the wave of that 1960’s migration, himself being born in Ontario, maintains a keen interest in Guyana and Guyanese culture. Jordan knows of the houses the family lost as the State nationalized and seized private property as his family fled the Socialist rhetoric that underlined our drive to political independence. They today want to regain the Georgetown property they lost in Alberttown: even as a Canadian, he remains