By Dr Lomarsh Roopnarine The following essay examines the movement of Indians who had first indentured to British Guiana and returned for a second time. The contention is that second-term migration of Indians from India (not to be confused with re-indenture in British Guiana) demonstrates a larger pattern of migration...
Press Release The Indian Action Committee (IAC) wishes to invite the general public its 15th Grand Annual Cultural Melas to observe the 180th Anniversary of Indian Arrival to Guyana. The Melas are scheduled for Saturday, 28th April 2018, at the Anna Regina Community Centre Ground, Essequibo, starting at 17:00hrs, and...
PRESS RELEASE The Indian Action Committee (IAC) will be hosting its 10th Annual Memorial Service, an “Evening of Remembrance” for the slain victims of the Lusignan Massacre which occurred on January 26, 2008, when eleven (11) persons were brutally murdered by centrally directed criminal elements. The event on Friday, January...
Press Release The Indian Action Committee (IAC) wishes to invite the general public to participate in its Inter-faith gathering and a discussion on the current state of Ethnic Relations in Guyana at the National Library on Friday, January 12, 2018, beginning at 4: 30 pm. The IAC recognizes that Ethnic...
The Indian Action Committee (IAC) is shocked and outraged by the insensitive ethnic remarks made by Education Minister Nicolette Henry in the National Assembly on Thursday, December 7, 2017, during her Budget Debate presentation. The IAC recognizes that this government minister has been in a controversial situation before, when she...
Press Release The Indian Action Committee (IAC) participated in the civil society consultations convened by the office of the Leader of the Opposition and found that like the first and second list of nominees, the third list represented Guyanese who were, according to the constitution “fit and proper” to hold...
PRESS RELEASE The Indian Action Committee (IAC) wishes to join with all Guyanese in commemorating the 69th Anniversary of the five Enmore Martyrs, Lallabajee, Pooran, Harry (Jug), Surujbally and Rambarran who were brutally murdered by Colonial Police Personnel. The IAC recognizes that this historical event was the catalyst that led...
PRESS RELEASE The Indian Action Committee (IAC) wishes to inform and invite the general public to a symposium at the Umana Yana on Saturday, May 20, 2017, from 9 am-4:30 pm. The IAC, which deals with the issues and concerns of persons of Indo-Guyanese origin, has attracted a number...
PRESS RELEASE The Indian Action Committee (IAC) wishes to inform the general public of and invite them to the organization’s 14th Annual Grand Cultural Melas to commemorate the 179th Anniversary of the arrival of East Indians to Guyana. The Essequibo Mela is scheduled for Sunday, April 30, 2017, commencing at...
2017/03/02 PRESS RELEASE The Indian Action Committee (IAC) is extremely concerned with the distressed state of the sugar Industry in Guyana especially in light of the anxieties oppressing the minds of thousands of sugar workers whose livelihoods are in jeopardy as reports of the closure of a number of sugar...