The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) will be hosting its second annual conference today when participants will discuss a number of issues that Afro-Guyanese are facing, in addition to finalising a strategic plan for the remaining years of the decade.
At the conference, which will be held at the Guyana Industrial Training Center, IDPADA-G, which comprises 48 organisations, will report on the work it has done since its establishment in 2017, the organisation said at a press conference on Friday.
According to the Chairman of IDPADA-G Vincent Alexander, the organisation will also present two major proposals which members think will have an impact on all Guyanese. The first is the reintroduction of the village council to various African-Guyanese communities. Alexander said that African-Guyanese have lost control of the lands that they bought with their own money during the post-emancipation period and IDPADA-G thinks that it is necessary and critical to reintroduce village councils in those villages so they can maintain control of their land. Queenstown, a village located on the Essequibo Coast, is one of the villages that will benefit from the proposal if the government agrees with it.
