The recent promulgation of an Indigenous Peoples Economic and Trade Cooperation Arrangement (IPETCA), which New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta says is intended as part of a journey “towards achieving greater economic empowerment for Indigenous Peoples” in the Asia-Pacific region is more than worthy of the attention here in Guyana where issues relating to the scarcity of meaningful official interventions, over the more than half a century of political independence to improve the quality of life in Indigenous communities has increasingly become the subject of public and political commentary.
