Django posted:Nehru posted:Sugar Levy money built National Cultural Center when It should have been THE INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER. Now tek dat and fill yuh pipe and smoke it!!! Sugar money supported the Bauxite Ind and so on and so on.
Unclaimed remittances of the indentured used to build National Cultural Centre
It wasn't remittances. It was the passage back to India that most of the indentures didn't use because they preferred life in Guyana. Pity many of their descendants now want to behave as if they live in India.
These funds were raised by taxes levied on the non sugar sectors in Guyana and on those who didn't work in sugar. A fancy way of saying that black people paid for this.
So it was appropriate that the funds should be used for the benefit of all Guyanese and it is also appropriate for Indo Guyanese to demand that the Center be inclusive to their cultural needs. We can indeed debate about the degree to which Indo Guyanese were involved, but I do recall a PPP inspired boycott of the National Cultural Center.