Contents Minister in the Ministry of Public Health Dr. Karen Cummings Rocks Her African Outfit

1 Acknowledgements Colin Bobb Semple Stabroek News Guyanese Online Kaieteur News Demerara waves Guyana Chronicle Guyana Times Department of Public Information Pinterest Founded as an online publication in 2016 in Guyana, GIHR News is a multimedia company with a global reach. The next issue of the Online GIHR News is the Christmas edition Contents 02 African Guyanese proverbs. 04 Did you know? 06 March for Wind rush generation in pictures. 10 Emancipation Fest. Minister in the Ministry of Public 12 No reason, evidence or hearing given before university Health Dr. Karen Cummings rocks her fired lecturers (Part 3). 13 That offensive curry advertisement. African outfit 16 Young dancers of Union village. 17 Quotes of the President of Guyana 19 Gabrelle Cummings, Miss Emancipation 2018 20 2018 KIDS History Vacation School 21 B.V./Triumph Emancipation celebration 22 Bagotville Culture Circle. 23 President L.F.S. Burnham: ‘A food for thought’. 26 Resettlement of Venezuelan refugees in Guyana. 27 Ministry of Indigenous Peoples' Affairs launched its calendar of activities for the Indigenous Heritage Month Celebrations. 29 In brief 31 Naipaul’s multi-racial school friends in Trinidad 2 Editorial Commitee Deon Abrams Tota Mangar Nigel Westmaas Timothy Crichlow Fitz Gladstone Alert David Hinds Thomas Singh Hazel Woolford Videographers/Photographers Lawrence Gaskin Natasha Azeez 1. Cleaning. Walter George 2. Employment Visiting Contributor 3. Event planning Kumar Mahabir Find Yahweh services Guyana on face book African-Guyanese proverbs 1. O Beniba mek Quashiba A good frien’ is bettah dan money in de pocket. 2. A gold mek Bacra a dead wid yalla febaj t’day. 3. A hint tek notice. 3 4. All man can talk, but na all can do. 5. Baby born, he foot small. 6. Back can wait, but no belly. 7. Bacra no boy, niggah no fool. 8. Cow say he dutty pon dam, but he dutty he own tail. 9. Crab know he ‘ole, but crapaud na know he ‘ole. 10. Crazy man know gubnah. __________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Lessons in GuyaneseRecent History: From Abolition releases to Rastafari. 2. GIHR News May-August 2018. 3. CLEO Women’s History Magazine: May-August 2018 Lessons in Guyanese History From Abolition to Rastafari Illustrator: Barrington Braithwaite Contributors 1. Allyson Stoll 2. Erin Lierl 3. Leon Saul 4 Did you know? By Dr. Norman Ng-A-Qui 1. Size of Africa Did you know that Africa can hold within its boundaries the United States of America, China, India, UK, Japan and many other European countries? 2. The Ancient Nile Valley Civilization Did you know that the Nile Valley was the home of African civilizations for more than 70,000 years and that the Ancient Egyptians Pharaohs during the dynastic period were black Africans? 3. Ancient Egyptians and the Americas Did you know that the Ancient Egyptians could sail from Rhakotis (Alexandria) to Bimini (Bahamas) 12,000 years ago, that is, thousands of years before Mongols came to the Americas? 4. West Africans and the Americas Did you know that West Africans (Olmecs and Malians) settled in the Americas thousands of years before the Europeans arrived? 5. Ancient and Greece Did you know that that the Ancient Egyptians were the source of education and civilization for the Greeks? 6. Malians and Brazil Did you know that the Malians settled in Brazil about 200 years before the Europeans arrived? 7. Moors and the Iberian peninsula Did you know that black African Moors conquered, occupied and civilized Spain and Portugal from 711-1492 and through them the other Europeans countries got introduced to modern civilization? 5 8. Colonial slave trade and British Guiana Did you know that the Portuguese, East Indians and Chinese came to British Guiana after 1834 but by that time Africans enslaved for the prior 200 years had already made the country habitable with a thriving agricultural sector, transportation infrastructure and population centers, e.g. the Parliament building was already completed.? 9. The legacy villages of Guyana Did you know that freed Africans purchased more than 450 plantations within 20 years after emancipation and established more than 40 villages, with Victoria on the east coast being the first legacy village. 10. The Father of the Nation Did you know that Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham became the Father of the Nation at Independence in 1966? Shop at the online GIHR store 6 March for Windrush generation in pictures By Beryl Haynes Reparation for the injustices done to our much wronged people and compensation for the descendants of our ancestors who suffered at the hands of the oppressors. On 1st August 2018. The Committee for reparation in the Uk held its March from Windrush square Brixton to the seat of Government'Whitehall'. 7 Guyanese Reparations representative Rudi Guyan 8 Cleo Lake, the Lady Mayor of the Historic City of Bristol delivering a most profound message which pivoted around her role as she takes on, head-on the historical relics of the former Slaving city. In the British town of Bristol, when she became the new Mayor, one of the first things that Cleo Lake did was remove the 300-year-old portrait of a slave trader from the wall in her office’s parlor. Lake instead of destroying the portrait, Lake has asked that it be installed in a museum addressing Bristol’s role in the slave trade and the abolition of slavery. Colston has long-been a divisive figure in Bristol, which is 105 miles west of London, over his original role in the Royal African Company, which turned the sale and transport of enslaved Africans to work on plantations in the Americas and the Caribbean into an industrial scale practice during the mid-17th century. 9 Colston is estimated to have been responsible for the deaths of roughly 20,000 people aboard his slave ships. He acquired his wealth on the backs of capturing and brutalizing Africans by transporting enslaved Blacks. He would later go on to establish slave trade routes as far as Asia. The Centre for Reparation Research says the Windrush generation crisis demonstrates the failure of the United Kingdom (UK) to face its responsibilities as a former colonial power. The Centre in a news release issued a call for a full investigation into the circumstances under which some have been already deported and others are being threatened with deportation and denial of their British citizenship. Those who left to work in the UK, along with their children, went as British citizens under the 1948 Nationality Act. The Centre said it maintains that the Windrush generation crisis is based on the UK’s long practice, since the days of African enslavement, to have cheap but expendable labour for its own enrichment and development. Professor Verene Shepherd, Director of the Centre said, “There are reports that British Prime Minister Theresa May has apologized to both Caribbean leaders meeting in London at the Commonwealth Summit and to the Windrush Generation for this shameful situation. "This crisis, however, clearly links reparatory justice with the continuing harm to the Caribbean. The failure to provide formal paperwork for those who emigrated as British citizens from the Caribbean is shameful. 10 The UK has used black bodies to build or rebuild the country, as in the case after World War II, and now seeks to deport them after they extracted the most useful years of their lives," she said. The Windrush generation deportations come on the heels of revelations that until 2015, West Indians and other black Britons paid taxes that helped pay off the Slavery Compensation Loan to white plantation owners in the Caribbean. The Centre says that these people were once again being asked to bear the burden of the UK’s failure to address colonialism. Emancipation Fest Minister of Finance Winston Jordan and, Minister of State, Joe Harmon, at the Linden Emancipation festival. In observance of the 180 years of the emancipation of African-Guyanese, ‘Lindeners’ held Freedom Fest 2018, with a packed emancipation programme, on July 31 and August 1. The Wisroc Community Centre ground was an African cultural pyramid with African food, music, drumming and a grand cultural show. The event was hosted by Right Start Foundation and Member of Parliament Jermaine Figueira. Main sponsors include Minister of State Joseph Harmon, Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes and BK International CEO Brian Tiwari who made a whooping contribution of $500, 000. 11 “We face another challenge as a people. We face the challenge of rebuilding our physical infrastructure. We face the challenge… of rebuilding that cooperative spirit. So, tonight, as we are here, I want to say to you that the Government of Brigadier David Granger has committed itself to efforts, which can rebuild that physical infrastructure, to rebuilding the education system and to rebuilding the cooperative spirit, which was damaged by the [former administration],” Minister Joe Harmon said. On July 31 starting from 18:00hrs, the play field came alive with soiree, campfire, storytelling, folk songs and African games. On Emancipation Day, there was a village exhibition, a cook up competition and a cultural show. MP Figueira, who is the brainchild behind this year’s event said that for too long, the people from Linden, a town where the population is majority Afro-Guyanese, had to travel to Georgetown or other villages to enjoy an Emancipation celebration, “We have many persons living in Linden whose roots are in villages that were previously owned by Africans, and so the African culture is deeply enshrined in them. For these ones, especially the older folks, [they] have been longing for something right here that mimics what a real Emancipation celebration should be, and that is why we have put all heads together to give them an event this year right in Linden, which they deserve,” he said.

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