When Althea Harding was attending the University of Guyana (UG) about five years ago, a lecturer asked Indigenous students what nation they belonged to. Harding identified herself as Carib. The lecturer then asked her to visit a juvenile, from the Carib community of Barabina, who was in detention at the juvenile centre at Sophia. Harding went to see the young man and discovered that he spoke no English. At the time she did not know as much Carib as she now knows. However, she said, “The teachers complained that he would not do any work or any activities assigned to him. I found out that he knew no English.
