This past weekend I was in Orlando hosting the Caribbean American Passport Connection event (I had the name wrong in my previous column) where they honoured outstanding Guyanese contributors to America as part of our Jubilee Year celebrations. The CAPC has been operating for years in that city as probably the best of the Guyana/America associations, and Tradewinds have played for many of their functions organized by Sam Roberts (son of Guyana’s one-time Crime Chief Skip Roberts). In this event, at the DoubleTree hotel, they paid tribute to an array of home folks who have done well in the US in a variety of businesses or community work. Frankly, I was very impressed at the range of abilities being recognized at the event, and I suspect that in fact most of these Guyanese, in a wide range of disciplines, are relatively unknown in their homeland.
