President David Granger has charged Guyanese to become more resourceful and to make the necessary provisions for their future generations as their fore parents had done for them.
Speaking two Sundays ago at a Thanksgiving Service at the Bethel Congregational Church to commemorate the 178th anniversary of Beterverwagting Village, the president emphasised the need for people to uphold the four pillars on which villages were established by freed Africans, according to a media release from the Ministry of the Presidency. These are the home, the school, the church and the farm.
“They [freed Africans] were thrifty people, they were people with foresight, these were not people who went to school and had Degrees and PhDs. These villages were the cradle of the Guyanese society…knock down the churches, knock down the schools, knock down the homes and knock down the farms and the society will collapse,” the Head of State was quoted as saying in the press release.
