One Giant Partee
ONE GIANT PARTEE 19 May, 2016 The preparation….. I have been looking forward to being present for the 50 th Independence Day celebration for two years! As it is known now, The Golden Jubilee is cause to honor this country. After being governed and either enslaved or indentured by French, Dutch and British, by the 1900’s Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese political groups began to take over governing the country. Complete independence came May 26, 1966 and Guyana joined the United Nations one year after. The time since has not been easy. There has been corruption, emigration of many to other Caribbean nations (yes, Guyana is considered a Caribbean nation), North America and England to create a “brain drain”. Guyana has just over 750,000 people in the country. Reportedly, there are more Guyanese outside than in. The free market economy is not without controversy. The motto of “One Nation, One People, One Destiny” is not evident. Finger pointing from one ethnic group to anot