Scores of indigenous people protested outside the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs yesterday calling for a revision of the 2006 Amerindian Act and for their rights to be respected even as government supporters said that much has been done to advance the rights of Amerindians.
International Day of World Indigenous Peoples was observed yesterday and dozens of Amerindians and their supporters converged at the Ministry’s building at Thomas and Quamina streets and called for their concerns to be addressed.
The protest followed another on Wednesday outside of the