The Government, through the Attorney General’s Chambers, announced this afternoon that it will bypass the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly – Guyana (IDPADA-G) and provide the allocated monthly subventions for this year directly to various African organisations in Guyana.

In a statement this afternoon, the AG’s office said while part of the 2022 subvention is the subject of legal proceedings, this year’s allocation is not, and therefore the Government will hand out the monthly subventions for this year to fifty organisations that it said formed IDPADA-G.

The announcement came just hours after the Acting Chief Justice said she will hear the full case on the 2022 subventions that have been withheld from the organisation by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

The decision of the Chief Justice followed the failure of the two sides to reach an agreement during mediation.

The government had withdrawn the group’s allocated subvention after a notice was published on its website for another organisation’s event that was going to examine the topic of an “emerging apartheid state in Guyana”. The group was heavily criticised by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo.

When the organisation was at first accused of financial impropriety, it released all of its completed financial reports to counter the government’s position.

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