Drugb posted:caribny posted:Amerindians have always complained of poverty. You just don't listen if Jagdeo is indicted.
Jagdeo gave himself a pension which is the highest in the Caribbean for a head of state even though Guyana is the poorest. Imagine he gets more than he would if he had been the PM of T&T!
Even though he isn't a retired man, given that he is the Leader of the Opposition, he still takes this pension as it is higher.
I am also willing to bet that the PPP MPs are taking their higher salary that they received as part of the same increase.
Nonsense, these indigenous people know that living in the jungle far away from the city will invariably result in lack of opportunity other than farming and mining. It in fact has been a way of life for them for 1000 years. But what is significant is that their chafe in life got worse ever since pnc took over. Jackass Granger made a show of giving a few bicycles and then abandoned them, kicking many out of jobs and giving away their lands to minders.
Just another of your nasty low life recently emancipated logie dweller meanness. Sudra status had been the status for indians for 6000 years yet when given the chance in a world without caste they made it. Both indians and blacks have amerindians in the status of the new Sudras. They get hand outs but no targeted training to utilize the land they possess and they do posses the largest blocks of land in Guyana and will continue to own that land as communal property.
It is why successive governments have tried various ruses to steal their lands. Burnham reduced it from 44 thousand sq miles to 25 thousand. Jagdeo reduced that by introducing various qualifiers to 12k They already have more than half of that and Granger with the aid of Eric Philips advocacy among others is trying to further reduce that. It is a combination of black and indian racism and greed that has us at a disadvantage.
If we had the numbers we would have gotten our lands. Democracy has been to our disadvantage with its majority rule in a burnham constitution that reduces negotiation to zero with after-the- elections coalitions being. Had that been in place we could have had a viable third party and constrain the authority of Indians and Blacks to steal our lands and rob us of an equal largess of the state. The Fijans on the other hand have used democracy and their numbers to extract significant indigenous claims to the authority over the state despite Indians being the majority.
However, that is changing. Our numbers is such that we can influence make up the government. We just have to organize and in time we will organize and speak with one voice