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Vol. 32, Issue 47 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN November 19-25, 2021
BORDER
TEAM
UPROAR
Major changes likely with
Guyanas border row team
By Bert Wilkinson
Guyana’s government
Wednesday signaled major
imminent changes to a team
of experts handling its decades
old border row case with Venezuela
at The World Court with
former foreign minister and
case agent Carl Greenidge the
apparent center of its plans.
This much has been gleaned
from a flare up between the
foreign ministry and Greenidge,
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Hugh Todd and the presidency.
Greenidge, a former foreign
minister from the main opposition
coalition administration
had been retained by the
governing People’s Progressive
Party (PPP) when it took office
15 months ago, formally complained
to President Irfaan Ali
about an unacceptable level
of political interference in the
work of his office and team
of boundary and legal experts
managing the case at the International
Court of Justice in
The Netherlands.
He singled out Todd, his
immediate boss and Parliamentary
Affairs Minister Gail
Teixeira, for making his continued
service as the case agent
an impossible task but sources
close to both Greenidge and
the ministry say that authorities
are apparently moving to
dump him as the agent and de
facto secretary to the team of
lawyers, maritime and border
and other experts representing
Guyana’s case.
Greenidge, a former deputy
secretary general at the African,
Caribbean and Pacific
(ACP) group of nations and an
ex CARICOM trade negotiator,
was among a group of very few
high profile coalition officials
who were kept by the PPP when
it took office in August 2020.
Such now is the level of
bad administrative and political
blood between Greenidge,
Todd, Teixeira, that Greenidge
has formally asked that his own
case agent’s office and reporting
responsibility be removed
from the foreign ministry and
switched directly to President
Ali or former president and
current Vice President Bharrat
Jagdeo. How the two will
Members of New Immigrant Community Empowerment and the New York Immigration
Coalition march through Times Square. New York Immigration Coalition
New York immigrants march for
pathway to citizenship
By Nelson A. King
In an 11-mile march, immigrant
New Yorkers, the New
York Immigration Coalition
(NYIC), Center for Popular
Democracy, Make the Road
New York, New Immigrant
Community Empowerment
and allies last Friday brought
their demand for a pathway to
citizenship from Manhattan to
Brooklyn.
Starting at 110th street in
Harlem and ending at Grand
Army Plaza in Brooklyn, the
marchers reminded Democrats
in Washington, D.C. of
their campaign promises to
deliver legalization for 11 million
immigrant Americans.
“We marched today because
we refuse to stay silent while
Democrats refuse to seize the
first real opportunity for comprehensive
immigration reform
in decades,” said Murad Awawdeh,
NYIC’s executive director.
“From President Joe Biden to
Senate Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer, our national leaders
promised they would deliver
for immigrant Americans.
“They offered heartfelt
praise for the sacrifices our
communities made on the
front lines of a global pandemic
but have failed to provide
immigrants with the real
protection and opportunity of
a roadmap to citizenship,” he
added. “We can’t afford their
excuses, because it will be
our families who will bear the
brunt of their limited imagi-
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