Indigenous people’s advocate, co-founder of the Guyanese Organisation of Indigenous Peoples (GOIP) and former schoolteacher Colin Klautky, 63, was elected by civil society organisations to sit on the Indigenous People’s Commission in November 2022 and is still waiting to be sworn in.
“That is not good at all. You can’t go through all these democratic processes and then someone is stalling the process for unknown reasons. I’m looking forward to further representing indigenous people on the Indigenous Peoples Commission and this wait is very agonising,” Klautky, the holder of a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, told Stabroek Weekend in a recent interview.
