Supervisor Don Clavin, Hempstead City Board, left, Consul Basic of Guyana to New York, Michael E. Brotherson, Everlasting Consultant to the UN, Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, throughout an Independence flag elevating ceremony final yr.
Photograph by Tangerine Clarke
The Consulate Basic of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana has introduced {that a} collection of actions shall be held in New York to commemorate the nation’s fifty fifth Republic Anniversary. These actions will spotlight Guyana’s wealthy heritage, nationwide growth, tourism, pure magnificence, and cultural and spiritual variety. Accordingly, a senior consultant from the federal government of Guyana will journey to New York to take part within the collection of actions.
In keeping with Consul Basic to New York, Michael E. Brotherson, the celebrations will start at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 23, at Instances Sq., 1552 Broadway, the place a novel visible show honoring the Republic Anniversary will start airing on 4 large screens.
He mentioned the video shall be aired thrice per hour, 24 hours a day, till March 1, making certain that the guts of New York Metropolis shines with Guyanese delight.
“This landmark exercise showcases and symbolizes the resilience and unity of our individuals and appropriately depicts Guyana on one of many world’s most famous platforms, Instances Sq.,” mentioned CG Brotherson.
As well as, the Consulate Basic has additionally organized for the Mid-Hudson Bridge in Poughkeepsie, New York, to be illuminated with the colours of Guyana’s Nationwide Flag from sundown on Feb. 23 to dawn the next morning. The lighting of the bridge is extraordinarily vital because it serves as an applicable symbolic gesture that underscores the truth that the Guyanese Diaspora permeates the State of New York and is properly represented in areas exterior of the 5 Boroughs of New York Metropolis, together with upstate New York.
The observances will proceed the identical day with a Republic Anniversary Interfaith Church Service at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, 331 Hawthorne St., Brooklyn, starting at 3 p.m., in collaboration with H.E. Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Everlasting Consultant of Guyana to the United Nations, and the Guyana Cultural Affiliation of New York Inc.
This gathering will convey collectively members of the Diaspora, New York State and Metropolis officers, in addition to members of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps in New York. Following the interfaith service, a reception and cultural presentation will comply with.
The Consulate Basic in New York needs to specific its honest gratitude to the Guyanese neighborhood for its continued dedication to nationwide growth and cultural preservation.
“Observing our fifty fifth Republic Anniversary is just not solely a celebration of our previous and current but in addition a reaffirmation of our collective imaginative and prescient for a future outlined by progress, prosperity, and unity,” mentioned Ambassador Brotherson.
