{"id":22869,"date":"2024-09-10T20:19:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T20:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=22869"},"modified":"2024-09-10T20:19:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T20:19:34","slug":"amerindian-heritage-fitness-walk-marks-kickoff-of-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/amerindian-heritage-fitness-walk-marks-kickoff-of-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Amerindian Heritage Fitness Walk Marks Kickoff of Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Kimberly Giddings<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recognition of Amerindian Heritage Month 2024, the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs organized a fitness walk on Sunday, attracting a large turnout of Amerindians and other Guyanese. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event began at the Umana Yana, proceeded along Carifesta Avenue and Vlissingen Road, and concluded at the National Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The walk was led by Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai, with notable participation from Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony and PPP\/C Member of Parliament Alister Charlie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The impressive turnout demonstrated strong community support for the month\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alister Charlie commended the public&#8217;s engagement, highlighting the substantial crowd at the heritage village and noting the widespread participation in the month\u2019s events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Sukhai emphasized that the fitness walk aimed to promote overall health and well-being in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also expressed her anticipation for upcoming Heritage Month events, which include art exhibitions, heritage sports, educational lectures, and an Amerindian beauty pageant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s Amerindian Heritage Month theme is \u201cMany Voices, One Song: Celebrating Amerindian Heritage 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kimberly Giddings In recognition of Amerindian Heritage Month 2024, the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs organized a fitness walk on Sunday, attracting a large turnout of Amerindians and other Guyanese.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-one-guyana"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22869","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=22869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22895,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22869\/revisions\/22895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}