{"id":18971,"date":"2024-04-22T20:41:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=18971"},"modified":"2024-04-22T20:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:41:25","slug":"president-urges-examination-of-cgids-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/president-urges-examination-of-cgids-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"President Urges Examination of CGID&#8217;s Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali has called upon elected officials in New York to assess the negative impact caused by the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) against Afro-Guyanese businesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This request comes in response to a statement from CGID, led by Rickford Burke, advocating for a boycott of Afro-Guyanese businesses that engaged with President Ali during his recent visit to Brooklyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali emphasized that no agenda, whether at home or in the diaspora, aimed at separating Guyanese communities will succeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He defended Guyanese diaspora members who interacted with him during his visit to Queens and Brooklyn, stating that they shared ideas for Guyana&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In challenging CGID&#8217;s call for a boycott, Dr. Ali questioned the organization&#8217;s motives and highlighted the potential harm and division caused by such actions within the diaspora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the President urged CGID executives to reconsider their approach, emphasizing the detrimental impact on US-based Guyanese, particularly those of African descent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reiterated his commitment to the principle of One Guyana and announced plans to return to the USA in the summer to engage and celebrate with the diaspora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali has called upon elected officials in New York to assess the negative impact caused by the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) against Afro-Guyanese businesses. This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18971","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\/18971","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=18971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18973,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions\/18973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}