Garifuna Settlement Day Celebrated Garifuna drummers on Settlement Day November 19th, 1998 marked the 57th anniversary of Garifuna Settlement Day. Founded by Thomas Vincent Ramos in 1941, it was established a Public and Bank Holiday in 1943. San Pedro was no exception to the country's festivities and started their celebration the night before with a dance to bring in the 19th. Music was provided ...

HOW ABOUT AN AMERINDIAN HERITAGE DAY the indigenous Caribbean people gave us the sturdy pirogue Excerpts from a story by Al Akong Independent October 1, 1999 Page 23 Today we hear no cries, no entreaties for recognition, or against oppression, political or other wide, of the Amerindians, who were the original West Indians, Trinidadians too, and were all but wiped out from the Antilles when the ...

REVISING THE ARENA AFFAIR Trinidad Guardian November 30, 1999 Page 21 Tomorrow marks the 300th anniversary of an event in Trinidad's history about which little is recorded and few people know - a bloody uprising against colonialism by the country's original inhabitants and the cruel reprisal by the governing authorities. It has become known as the Arena Massacre but as Guardian Features Writer ...

WAY OF THE SHAMAN By Laura Ann Phillips Express October 11, 2000 Page 29 Ricardo Cruz is an Amerindian shaman: a healer and holy man - a role found in most first nation tribes. After our interview at the Forestry Division s Cleaver Woods Recreation Site in Arima, Cruz and I were walking past the ajoupa a replica of an Amerindian hut and one of the main sights there on our way out. A small ...

HYARIMA Trinidad Guardian November 30, 1999 Page 21 There is a statue in Arima commemorating Hyarima, an Amerindian cacique and the Amerindian people of Trinidad and Tobago. Below is an inscription about the Carib warrior leader. HYARIMA - Amerindian Cacique The last great leader of this nation's indigenous people was Hyarima. He was a Nepuypo - a sub-tribe of the Carinepogoto (Carib) whose ...

MEDINA IS NEW CARIB QUEEN By Marlise Andrews Trinidad Guardian March 28, 2000 Page 6 Valentina Medina, of Mausica Lands, Arima, has been named Carib Queen for life, at an election held on Sunday at the Santa Rosa Carib Community Centre. Medina, 66, was among three others who were nominated as successors after Justa Werges, queen for the past 11 years, passed away in January. She was named after ...

Celebrating Garifuna Day Iunraha Wamei Irisini Higiru Wayunagu Waba is the theme that the National Garifuna Council (NGC) of Belize has selected for this year's Garifuna Settlement Day Celebrations. The theme means - Lets Uphold the Values left to us by our Ancestors. November 19th, 1998, Garifuna Settlement Day, will be observed as a public and bank holiday honoring the Garifuna culture ...

Guyana tries to save indigenous languages by bert wilkinson georgetown, oct 21 (ips) - university of guyana researcher desrey fox knows that with each passing day, the battle to save major amerindian languages is being lost, mainly through increased contact with english-speaking coastlanders, teachers and religous leaders. preliminary research has shown that only a few elderly amerindians from ...

FOREST PEOPLES PROGRAMME INFORMATION UPDATE 19 February 1997 Little progress in the recognition and demarcation of Indigenous lands in Guyana The Government of Guyana recently approved its budget for 1997. Included therein is 50 million Guyana Dollars (approximately 365, 000 US Dollars) for the demaraction of titled Indigenous territory. This amount may be sufficent to demarcate 2 or 3 titled ...

Nation to celebrate Garifuna Settlement Day The Island Newspaper, Ambergris Caye, Belize Vol. 10, No. 41 November 16, 2000 Features: Search Issues | Read Back Issues | Subscriptions | Merchandise Ordering Information Garifuna Settlement Day will be celebrated nationally this weekend. Garifuna people originally came about as a result of Caribs from southeastern South America settling on the ...

CONGRATULATIONS, ARIMA! 112 YEARS AS A BOROUGH Sunday Guardian July 30, 2000 Pages 28, 29 To be a borough The year is 1887. Her Majesty Queen Victoria has celebrated the Golden Jubilee of her reign and mass euphoria has spread through England. In Trinidad, a similar frenzy is being experienced. Her Majesty's loyal subjects in Arima, having the highest regard for their Queen and in honour of her ...

CELEBRATE OUR CARIB HERITAGE By Sandra Chouthi Features Desk Express Section 2 June 29, 1998 Page 1 The Carib people want to create their own heritage centre, but there is one minor obstacle: they have few artifacts to work with. The Santa Rosa Carib Community Centre at Paul Mitchell Street, Arima, has several items made out of coconut leaves - a shield, a hummingbird, and a catfish. There are ...