The National Trust of Guyana (NTG) yesterday launched its new publication Historic Photographs of Guyana at the National Museum as it prepares to roll out an outreach programme to mark Heritage Week.
Conservation Officer of the NTG Nadia Madho said the book of photographs depicts Guyanese life, architecture, and people dating back from the 19th century in a “unique view of the past”. The photos were complied in a book after the NTG was “bombarded” with requests for photos.
The book was compiled by the Research and Documen-tation Officer Bhavana Gossai.
Chief Executive Officer of NTG Nirvana Persaud explained that the idea behind the book was to create awareness of our heritage and the preservation of it. In this vein, she said, the NTG will be taking its activities for Heritage Week to schools in Regions Two, Three, Four and Six to “create awareness and the role the student has to play in preservation of heritage”.
The theme for Heritage Week is ‘Partnering for Effective Preservation: My Role, Your Role’. Copies of the book were presented to Prime Minister Sam Hinds, Minister of Culture Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony, the Museum and the National Library and the University of Guyana Library by Head of the National Trust of Guyana Dr James Rose, who is also Director of Culture.
The Prime Minister commended the new book and urged that people of today to “view them, to be assured that progress has been made” even though it may not seem like much to others. “History is the path through which we have been advancing… keep up with the task of making us culturally and historically aware of Guyana,” Hinds told members of the National Trust of Guyana.
Copies of the book are available at a cost of $4,000 at the National Museum’s gift shop and National Trust of Guyana in Carmichael Street, North Cummingsburg.
