THE National Toshaos Council (NTC) conference will open under the theme “Guyana’s First Peoples United in the Promotion of the Green Economy through Preservation of our Languages, Land and Right” on October 7 at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.
The four-day conference will bring together toshaos and other indigenous village leaders from over 212 hinterland villages across Guyana.

Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Minister, Sydney Allicock, is urging village leaders to be prepared to bring pertinent issues to the table to be discussed.

The conference is an important forum that allows village leaders to have engagements with the president, ministers and officials from various government agencies.
It is aimed at consolidating and expanding the national development and transformation processes to cater to the needs of indigenous people.

The event will be coordinated and hosted by the NTC with support from the government through the Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Ministry.