Georgetown: Several issues of concern are now engaging the attention of the Rastafari community through there presentation of the Guyana Rastafari Council. Among the resolutions passed at the last General Meeting held at the F.E. Pollard School on Sunday, August 24, 2014 was a call on the Government of Guyana to immediately implement the mandate of the last CARICOM Heads of Government meeting that each CARICOM member State set up a National Marijuana Commission to complement the Regional Marijuana Commission to look at decriminalizing marijuana for medical, religious and recreational purposes. Another resolution passed endorsed the work of the Guyana Reparations Committee in coming up with the correct historical narrative for Guyana, among other things, as part of the CARICOM Reparations Claim. The members also expressed concern over the general allocation of land in Guyana; and are calling on members of the Rastafari community to utilize the land in more organic agricultural pursuits for food security. This is in light of recent concerns being raised about genetically- modified seeds and food entering the Guyana food chain.
The members also expressed concern over the general allocation of land in Guyana; and are calling on members of the Rastafari community to utilize the land in more organic agricultural pursuits for food security. This is in light of recent concerns being raised about genetically- modified seeds and food entering the Guyana food chain..The Guyana Rastafari Council is about to embark on the process of building its headquarters in Georgetown, and developing an agricultural project on the outskirts of Linden. The pioneering community organization will be holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of new office bearers on Sunday, December 21, 2014. The new executive will be responsible for coordinating a Regional Rastafari Conference on Reparations and Repatriation in the first half of 2015, as part of the CARICOM Reparations Commission’s agenda that is part of the mandate of the United Nations’ International Decade for Peoples of African Descent.
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