THE Cuffy 250 Committee, an organisation formed two years ago with the objective of encouraging socio-economic and cultural revitalisation within the African-Guyanese community, and generally fostering ethnic and racial equality in Guyana, will be hosting its third annual “State of African-Guyanese Forum” on Sunday, August 9, at the Critchlow Labour College on Woolford Avenue.The theme for this year’s forum will focus on Guyana’s Renaissance: The 50th Anniversary of our Independence and positioning of the African Guyanese, and will be addressing the issue of ethnic equality in Guyana.

At a press conference yesterday, executive members of the Cuffy 250 Committee, Mr. Vincent Alexander and Dr. David Hinds, said they believe that the groundwork of the Ministry of Social Cohesion would have been laid if they address the problems faced by Afro-Guyanese and those of other groups at the regional level.

Speakers of the forum will include distinguished persons such as Nigel Hughes, Vincent Alexander, Dr. David Hinds and Fiah Rose of the African- American Civil Rights Movement.

This organisation is of the view that the Guyanese population will go nowhere if it is not grounded in ethnic and racial equality, especially at the political and economic levels, and mutual respect at the cultural level.

The Cuffy 250 Committee members are dedicated to the reversal of ethnic domination of all kinds and from all quarters. Part of their mission is to encourage self-empowerment and self-respect among African-Guyanese as a prerequisite for respecting all races and as a defense against domination.
(Sherah Alleyne)