76-YEAR-OLD Desmond Saul can still recall some of the traditions his family observed on Emancipation Day when he was a young boy while growing up in Victoria. “That day

SCORES of small business owners were given an opportunity to showcase their products and services at “Ujamaa 2.0,” a two-day Emancipation sale and exhibition organised by the International Decade

BUILT on dreams of freedom, years of rebellions and resistance to enslavement and a shared spirit of tenacity to create an economically thriving and culturally rich community during the

DESPITE passage of the Emancipation Act in 1833, the newfound freedom that the ex-slaves had once craved was no paradise. There were more battles to be fought and the

PRIME Minister, Brigadier (ret’d), Mark Phillips, on Thursday, met with Guyana Reparations Committee Chairman, Dr Eric Phillips and a visiting African Royal Delegation from South Africa and the Kingdom

THE People’s Progressive Party (PPP) wishes to extend greetings to our Afro-Guyanese brothers and sisters across the country and in the diaspora on the occasion of Emancipation 2022, which

DANCE and music are common forms of expression in Guyana and many other parts of the world. In Guyana, dance and music are heavily influenced by the country’s multicultural

FOOD and culture are interwoven. Traditional spices, recipes and food preparation techniques were passed down from generation to generation. This is true for cultures across the world. The processes

EMANCIPATION Day is celebrated annually on the first day of August. It is the day that the heroes of past slave rebellions that ushered in the end of the

IT has now been one hundred and eighty-four (184) years since the descendants of former enslaved Africans, who experienced successive generations of brutality on the plantation, attained their full