DENNIS Abraham, the leader of the Amerindian civil rights movement has a responsibility to make the following public announcement in Guyana. The native Amerindians with its nine tribal peoples in Guyana have concluded the formation of the “Amerindians complaints review board”. The board is now the latest formation of an organised selective body to be formed after following the deaths of four native Amerindian female children in September 2008.

The native Amerindian tribal people in their villages and communities have strongly concluded their support for such a civil community forum which had dealt specifically on various serious matters of concerns in their villages and communities including serious tragedies to the extreme, crimes and corruption, illegal substances of drugs and other dangerous substances of abuse which can eventually endanger the welfare of the entire native Amerindians nine tribal people of Guyana.

The Amerindian Complaints Review Board is an independent representative body, it is not a political body or a political forum neither will it be affiliated to any of the nation’s political parties. It has supported the selection of Dennis Abraham an Arawak descendent from Moruka as the first executive Director who is also the Amerindian Community affairs Representative in Guyana. The board will be holding its annual meetings, its regular meetings and conventions so it can provide an update of its work, responsibilities and commitments to the Native Tribal People in their villages and communities.

The board will also make provisions for the selection of the next executive director. The board will not receive and record any form of minor complaints, minor problems, and minor reports because it has to comply by its strict policy towards dealing specifically on matters of serious concerns.

The board will be working in a system of cooperation and mutual understanding alongside the two Amerindian representative bodies, the GOIP and APA. The board believes that the native Amerindians of Guyana will be in a position to having a much stronger National representation in their villages and communities. It will demonstrate an act of civil responsibility and will work for the benefit of all the native people under the nation’s democratic system so it can take its rightful place as the representative body of an organisation in Guyana.
SHAWN GONSALVES