Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, along with Ministers Khemraj Ramjattan, David Patterson and Valerie Garrido-Lowe, among others, participated in Sunday evening’s soiree at Hopetown Village, West Coast Berbice.
According to a GINA press release, the team met and greeted residents and other guests and were treated to African drumming, music and a range of foods.
The event which is held the night before Freedom Day from just before midnight to dawn, is an annual activity put on by the residents with the participation of neighbouring villages.
Soirees are held in various parts of the country, but the Hopetown engagement is the one which usually attracts hundreds of Guyanese, guests and other visitors. Hopetown was one of the first villages bought by Africans just after the abolition of slavery in 1838.
