A HIGH-LEVEL joint delegation from the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs and the National Toshaos Council is representing Guyana at the 24th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous ...

(The territory fell to Portugal anyway, under the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494.) The local Amerindian population, still living in the Stone Age as hunter-gatherers and fishers, came out to see their ...

He explained that there is no market to take off the large-scale produce. Albert, a counselor attached to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, pointed out that a truckload of farmers was more than ...

Germans, Spaniards, Portuguese and Dutch all set off into the jungles of Guyana with high hopes, only to fall victim to malarial fevers or the poison darts of hostile Arawaks. On one expedition in the ...

I see Dr Terrence Campbell emerging as presidential candidate and a female politician of Amerindian descent, Laura George as prime ministerial candidate. Feel the power of Simona Broomes ...

Opposition Leader Myron Walwyn has stated that those with the strongest ancestral ties “must be respected at all times” in the BVI. Those deemed to have the strongest ancestral ties are called ...

Our Bahamian culture is built upon the many peoples who have settled here over the centuries which include the Arawaks, Spanish, Chinese, Greeks, British, Americans and, of course, the Africans.

Efforts made to contact Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai for a comment on the matter have been futile. When asked whether mining on the disputed lands will be stopped in the interim ...