Guyana’s foreign affairs minister tells Guyanese to be patriots
By Tangerine Clarke
Guyana’s Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Dr. Karen Cummings,
on the sidelines of the 74th
United Nations General Assembly,
on Thursday, Sept. 26, told
Guyanese in Brooklyn, that
because of the level of wealth
that Guyana is about to realise,
many internal and external
forces are increasingly envious
and skeptical of “our progress
and prospects and would happily
seek to stymie our gains
or to see our wonderful future
squandered through the rancor,
misgivings, limitations and
divisions of the past.”
Addressing a packed town
hall meeting in the Edison O.
Jackson Auditorium of Medgar
Evers College, Dr. Cummings
said, “to date, since taking office
in 2015, a total of 16 world class
oil deposits have been discovered.
The commercial value of
our oil and gas industry is more
than enough to significantly
improve the quality of life and
standard of living of every Guyanese
citizen.”
The diplomat called on expatriates
to be strong in their
defense of Guyana, be informed,
avoid ‘fake’ news, be vigilant, be
involved.
“We must be patriots as
never before. We must not give
way to skepticism or tribalism
but rise above these challenges
that will detract from the journey
of destiny on which we are
embarked.”
“We must salute the unfailing
efforts you have made to
give back to our beautiful country,
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“The government recognizes
that there is need for more
robust policies, structures and
mechanisms at home to engage
“our diaspora in the form of
advocacy, direct investment,
knowledge networks return
migration tourism and human
capital efforts.”
“The Coalition government
will continue to focus on ways
to strategically engage the
Guyanese diaspora, so as to
leverage development finance
through remittances, foreign
direct investment, and even
philanthropy,” she said.
“Leveraging the skills and
resources of our Guyanese
diaspora can serve as one of our
national development drivers,”
she said, adding that establishing
cross-sector partnerships
will serve as a key approach
for addressing the many challenges
associated with harnessing
the resources as of diaspora
groups. As they allow for the
pooling of resources, networks,
and expertise.
The politician, who stated
that it would have inconceivable
to be in New York for the
first time as minister of foreign
affairs and not meet to update
expatriates on the exciting
development, assured that Guyana
continues to move steadfastly
forward to realize its full
potential on the world stage.
“Guyana is already garnering
the rapt attention of some
of the most powerful nations
in the world, for its abundance
of hydrocarbon oil and gas,”
she said.
To this end, she said that
with great prosperity comes
great responsibility, and it is
imperative that astute political
leadership, firmly rooted in
integrity, the rule of law, good
governance and accountability
prevails, qualities that exhibited
by the Coalition.
Ambassador Rudolph M. Ten-Pow, permanent representative to the UN, Consul General to
New York, Barbara Atherly, Dr. Karen Cummings, and Ambassador to the US, Riyad Insanally,
after the Brooklyn town hall meeting on Sept. 26, at Medgar Evers College.
Photo by Tangerine Clarke
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