Learn from the Indigenous people

Telford Taylor, Lokono artist of St Cuthbert’s Mission, presents a model fish to Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony at the launch of Heritage Month yesterday at the Ministry of Culture. (Photo by Arian Browne)

The Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology yesterday launched this year’s Amerindian Heritage Month and Culture Minister Dr. Frank Anthony urged all Guyanese to use the occasion not just to celebrate but to contemplate on how they can learn from their indigenous brothers and sisters.

Heritage Month, which will be marked by numerous activities throughout September, is being observed this