MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN

“Celebrate Guyana To The World”

The Guyana Independence Anniversary Celebration Committee (New York) has each year celebrated Guyana’s Independence Anniversary, through arts, culture and education, with resounding success since its incorporation in 2015

With 173 members, representing 25 diaspora organizations in 9 States, the committee organized the historic and successful Golden Jubilee independence celebration in New York in 2016. Our jubilee celebration, which comprised 11 events over 8 days, mobilized thousands of Guyanese and inspired a renaissance of national pride in the North American diaspora that still exists today.  Guyanese pride and patriotic fervor have never been this intense.

We are a not for profit, charitable, tax exempt organization – registered under Federal statute and New Your State law. Therefore, our activities are not for profit, but for community benefit and enhancement.   Our organization has not only been an asset to the Guyanese community, but has helped enrich New York City’s cultural landscape.

Following Jubilee celebrations in June 2016, we continued working and successfully organized the epic 51^stIndependence celebration from May 26 – June 11, 2017, and continued the soccer training and coaching program for our young people.

We are grateful that all of you, our members and supporters, continue to believe in us and have given us unflinching support. We ask all Guyanese to continue supporting us and share with us your ideas about how to better accomplish our mission. We implore all you to get involved in our work to celebrate Guyana, help others in need, foster unity and to build our better, more prosperous homeland.

In particular, we invite you to join our mission to unite the Guyanese community. Our paramount, collective task is to continue mobilizing Guyanese to reject aversion and embrace unity and inclusion. Guyana will only advance if we work together for the common good and to attain genuine cohesion and national development for all.

The committee thanks the thousands of Guyanese and friends of Guyana who have supported our activities since our establishment in 2015. Let’s do it again! Join our 2018 celebration from June 3 – 10, 2018, under the theme “Celebrate Guyana To The World.” Come join us. Together, let’s celebrate Guyana with greater zeal and national pride that ever before!

Yours in service,

 Rickford Burke

Chairman