Reparations outreach conference for Linden during town week

The Guyana Reparations Committee (GRC) will be holding its first reparations outreach conference at Linden on May 3 and the event will be a part of the Reparations Village that complements the Linden Town Week, according to a press release.

The demand for reparations according to GRC comes after the African Holocaust or Maafa, as referred to by many. “This is a crime against humanity and is recognised as such by the United Nations (UN), scholars, and historians who have documented the primary and overwhelming culpability of European nations for enslavement in Europe, in the Americas and elsewhere,” the release said.

GRC went on to state that legal battles regarding reparations for the European enslavement of