{"id":27287,"date":"2025-10-16T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=27287"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:50:24","slug":"ignite-the-light-within-this-diwali-pres-ali-urges-at-deep-jale-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/ignite-the-light-within-this-diwali-pres-ali-urges-at-deep-jale-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignite the light within this Diwali &#8211; Pres. Ali urges at Deep Jale 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Guyanese are being encouraged to ignite the light within us and to keep that eternal flame of spirituality burning. This is from President Irfaan Ali, as the nation celebrates Deepawali \u2013 the festival of lights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Head of State last evening joined the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha for the annual Deep Jale, at the Kitty Roundabout in Georgetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the Diwali motorcades, Deep Jale has become an annual celebration on the Sabha\u2019s calendar of events for Diwali. October 19 of this year will mark 51 years since the introduction of the Diwali motorcade.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/irfan-at-jale.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27288\" style=\"width:488px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/irfan-at-jale.jpg 683w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/irfan-at-jale-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/irfan-at-jale-105x157.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>President Ali addressing the massive audience last evening<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;We live in a world filled with darkness and troubles. That individual light within each of us is more essential today than it was 51 years ago&#8230;that one single light can change the fortune of all the dark corners in a room, bringing hope and positivity,&#8221; <\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em>the president emphasised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also speaking at the event was president of the Dharmic Sabha, Dr Vindhya Persaud, who encouraged families across Guyana to continue celebrating and nurturing our cultures and traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deep-jale-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deep-jale-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deep-jale-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deep-jale-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deep-jale-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deep-jale-1-155x116.jpg 155w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deep-jale-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>One of the cultural performances at the Deep Jale event held at the Seawall<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyanese are being encouraged to ignite the light within us and to keep that eternal flame of spirituality burning. This is from President Irfaan Ali, as the nation celebrates Deepawali&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,351],"tags":[406,403,404,402,405,401],"class_list":["post-27287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-406","tag-deep-jale","tag-diwali","tag-dr-vindhya-persaud","tag-ncn-news","tag-president-dr-mohamed-irfaan-ali"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27290,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287\/revisions\/27290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}