{"id":18925,"date":"2024-04-20T00:57:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=18925"},"modified":"2024-04-20T00:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T00:57:17","slug":"jagdeo-questions-credibility-of-idpada-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/jagdeo-questions-credibility-of-idpada-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagdeo Questions Credibility of IDPADA-G"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Samuel Sukhnandan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The credibility of the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly\u2014Guyana (IDPADA-G) has come under scrutiny, with Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, General Secretary of the ruling PPP\/C, raising concerns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo referenced a news article from 2018 that called for IDPADA-G to be scrapped and replaced, highlighting longstanding doubts about its effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that the government had opted to channel funds directly to Afro-Guyanese groups instead of using IDPADA-G as an intermediary, citing concerns about accountability and the organization&#8217;s use of finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the 3rd Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Peoples of African Descent in Switzerland, a representative of IDPADA-G alleged racial discrimination by the government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Dr. Jagdeo argued that mechanisms like the Ethnic Relations Commission should be utilized for such grievances, which IDPADA-G had not done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Oneidge Walrond, leading the government delegation at the UN forum, received commendation from Dr. Jagdeo for her robust presentations addressing the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The controversy surrounding IDPADA-G underscores broader questions about its role and effectiveness in advocating for the interests of people of African descent in Guyana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Sukhnandan The credibility of the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly\u2014Guyana (IDPADA-G) has come under scrutiny, with Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, General Secretary of the ruling PPP\/C,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18927,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18925\/revisions\/18927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}