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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge

Outstanding Afro-Guyanese to be honoured at gala dinner

 

AN AWARD ceremony to honour outstanding Afro-Guyanese, both deceased and alive, will be held next Monday at the Pegasus Hotel.The committee responsible for putting together the programme said the United Nations has designated 2015 to 2024 the “Decade for people of African Descent” and as such, the body will commemorate this decade by awarding outstanding Guyanese who have made significant contributions in different forms towards the development of Guyana, with emphasis on African-Guyanese community.

This committee comprises representatives of the Burnham Foundation, Cuffy 250 Committee, Pan African Organisation, Women’s Roundtable and Miss Emancipation Committee. The inaugural award ceremony would acknowledge African-Guyanese persons who have made significant contributions towards the development of Guyana and the African-Guyanese community over the past 50 years, the committee said. Thirteen posthumous nominees would be recognised during this historic occasion. These are: LFS Burnham, Mrs. Viola Burnham, Dr. Kenneth King, Dr. Faith Harding, Mr. Clarence Ellis, Mr. Winston Murray, Mrs. Deborah Backer, Dr. Gustav Jackson, Mr. Philip Moore, Dr. Herbert Nicholson, Mr. Ronald Waddell, Dr. Walter Rodney and Mr. Courtney Crum-Ewing. Relatives of these posthumous awardees, including Roxanne Burnham, Pat Harding and Steve Backer, would be in attendance to receive the awards in the honour of their loved ones.

For the following 8 years, the following awards would be presented: African Guyanese Business Awards 2017; Africa Guyanese Youths Awards 2018; African Guyanese Professionals 2019; African Guyanese Teachers 2020; African Guyanese promoting STEM 2021; African Guyanese in Media 2022; African Guyanese Village Awards 2023; African Guyanese of the Decade 2024.

Both local and diaspora awardees have already confirmed their attendance at the dinner and award ceremony, the committee asserted. Among the awardees are: Vincent Alexander, Pilot Beverley Drakes, Dr David Hinds, Dr. Karen Godette and Dr. Joycelynn Loncke. The Honourable Carl Greenidge, Minister of Foreign Affairs, one of the awardees, will be the keynote speaker. Tickets for the event can be uplifted at HBTV Channel 9 on Mandela Avenue.

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Bibi Haniffa posted:

Since when people get honoured to bankrupt a country?  Did someone not know their history?

It was this Crabdawg that stood in Parliament and proudly announced that the treasury was empty under his watch.

This is quite disgusting. No one should be surprised, the PNC clowns are back.

FM

I can think of some deserving Afro-Guyanese who should to be on this list.

  1. E. R. Braithwaite
  2. Basil Butcher
  3. Lance Gibbs
  4. Eddy Grant
  5. Shirley Field Ridley
  6. The First Chancellor of UG – Edgar Mortimer Duke

Some of the people on their list is disgraceful.

Bibi Haniffa
Bibi Haniffa posted:

I wonder why Gilbakka, Mitwah, and Django are not being honoured.  They are more deserving than many of those people on that list. 

They're not Africans.  

FM
Bibi Haniffa posted:

I can think of some deserving Afro-Guyanese who should to be on this list.

  1. E. R. Braithwaite
  2. Basil Butcher
  3. Lance Gibbs
  4. Eddy Grant
  5. Shirley Field Ridley
  6. The First Chancellor of UG – Edgar Mortimer Duke

Some of the people on their list is disgraceful.

Why don't you focus on East Indians and stop worrying about other people and their decisions about their people.

Prashad
Bibi Haniffa posted:

I wonder why Gilbakka, Mitwah, and Django are not being honoured.  They are more deserving than many of those people on that list. 

Bibi....... Jagdeo should be Honoured for signing the Corbin/Jagdeo Accord.

That was a Master Stroke for Black People....

It removed all the House of Israel Thugs and Ballot Box Riggers and Killers from the PNC......

Permanently Move all PNC Criminals over to Freedom House & Office of the President......

Made PPP a Minority Party.....

Clean up the PNC of all it's Dirty Past and Records.

Prepare "De New Look PNC" to return back to Power in a New Alliance Govt.

FM
kp posted:

This is the start to Africanise Guyana, they can't find enough alive,so they turned to the long deceased.

Also look at the 3rd paragraph!  They're boldly declaring it is their time now.   

FM
Bibi Haniffa posted:

I can think of some deserving Afro-Guyanese who should to be on this list.

  1. E. R. Braithwaite
  2. Basil Butcher
  3. Lance Gibbs
  4. Eddy Grant
  5. Shirley Field Ridley
  6. The First Chancellor of UG – Edgar Mortimer Duke

Some of the people on their list is disgraceful.

Winston Murray is an Honorary Afro-Guyanese..  The brother made sure some of his Indo friends get a couple pounds of wheat flour during the era of shortages. The man deserves an honor for crossing racial lines and help people.

Billy Ram Balgobin
Lennox posted:
Bibi Haniffa posted:

I wonder why Gilbakka, Mitwah, and Django are not being honoured.  They are more deserving than many of those people on that list. 

They're not Africans.  

You could a fool me. 

FM
Cobra posted:
Lennox posted:
Bibi Haniffa posted:

I wonder why Gilbakka, Mitwah, and Django are not being honoured.  They are more deserving than many of those people on that list. 

They're not Africans.  

You could a fool me. 

You are not fooled,you got the file.

Django

Gilbakka was right. Dem winning in 2020.  Look.  Planning ahead

"For the following 8 years, the following awards would be presented: African Guyanese Business Awards 2017; Africa Guyanese Youths Awards 2018; African Guyanese Professionals 2019; African Guyanese Teachers 2020; African Guyanese promoting STEM 2021; African Guyanese in Media 2022; African Guyanese Village Awards 2023; African Guyanese of the Decade 2024."

Bibi Haniffa

Negros can decorate themselves with awards and still they will wreck a country into the slum. Granger get nuff barass medals hanging on his church suit and he haven't done anything for Guyana in one year. 

FM
RiffRaff posted:

Ron Sanders

Lance Gibbs

Roy Fredricks

Clive LLoyd

Ron Sanders is East Indian and Portugeese. Real name Ron Singh. This is a black award. The only reason that Winston Murray who was East Indian there is because his wife was black.

Prashad

Carl Greenidge and Amna Ali should be given awards for ugliness. I was ugliness in my days, but these two people took the cream of ugliness.  It's nice when you can speak the truth. Me bad.

FM
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
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Winston Murray is an Honorary Afro-Guyanese..  The brother made sure some of his Indo friends get a couple pounds of wheat flour during the era of shortages. The man deserves an honor for crossing racial lines and help people.

He was an Indian. 

I know this shocks you that an Indian had REAL input into decision making within the PNC.    An Indian was even the PNC Chair at one point.  Cammie Ramsaroop.  Indians like the Luckhoos, Shahabudeen, Ramphal, and David Singh, also had roles.

Noteworthy that the "coolie people party" only had black stooges, who had no direct decision making leadership, with the pitiful excuse that this was because the blacks were Civic.  Yes that Bantustan that Cheddi set up to keep the blacks trapped on the reservation.  Luncheon's role was confined to being an "advisor", meaning that the PPP would be free to ignore him.

FM
Prashad posted:
. The only reason that Winston Murray who was East Indian there is because his wife was black.

Do you know her name?  Does ANY ONE know her name?  How do you know that she wasn't some housewife?

I know that the absence of blacks with his influence, in the PPP is something that you will applaud.  But then the PPP is the brown bai KKK, with Jagdeo being the Grand Wizard.

FM
Bibi Haniffa posted:

I wonder why Gilbakka, Mitwah, and Django are not being honoured.  They are more deserving than many of those people on that list. 

Are you trying to say they are miserable, old Indians

alena06
caribny posted:

 Yes that Bantustan that Cheddi set up to keep the blacks trapped on the reservation.  

You love to call everyone who does not agree with you a racist. You pull crap out of your ass and present them as fact. For you to imply that Cheddi Jagan was a racist only indicates that you must have a severe dislike for Indo Guyanese unless they agree with you.

I met Dr Jagan as a child and learnt more about him as I grew up. I knew where he lived and went to his humble home and he was not a racist, far from it. He also had many Blacks in important positions in the PPP. He was even partners with Burnham until the split. For you to imply the man is a racist is as disgusting as Jagdeo implying that Cheddi had an opulent home. 

FM
caribny posted:
Prashad posted:
. The only reason that Winston Murray who was East Indian there is because his wife was black.

Do you know her name?  Does ANY ONE know her name?  How do you know that she wasn't some housewife?

I know that the absence of blacks with his influence, in the PPP is something that you will applaud.  But then the PPP is the brown bai KKK, with Jagdeo being the Grand Wizard.

Winston Murray wife's maiden name is ... Marva Fortune and she is an AfroGuyanese.

Winston Murray was part Indo-Guyanese and part Afro-Guyanese.

FM

Winston Murray was Indian period. Why do you think Van west Charles Burnham son in law quit the PNC. Because someone said that koolie will not run the PNC. I heard the man interview with Benschop.

Prashad
Bibi Haniffa posted:

I wonder why Gilbakka, Mitwah, and Django are not being honoured.  They are more deserving than many of those people on that list. 

I am surprised that they left out "Blackie"!

FM
Dondadda posted:
Bibi Haniffa posted:

I wonder why Gilbakka, Mitwah, and Django are not being honoured.  They are more deserving than many of those people on that list. 

I am surprised that they left out "Blackie"!

How about Fineman? Should not Hammie bai get another one too? He at least killed his wife and burnt her before anyone knew anything.

FM

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