Several years ago, at a Tradewinds night in Orlando for the Guyanese American 
Cultural Association of Central Florida, I gave a speech on ‘Being Guyanese’ that went around the world online and appeared in the Chronicle here. This week on the occasion of the Diaspora Conference here, at the Princess Hotel, I gave a shorter version of the speech to that group, which I offer you now below because it still applies. So it go.