Amerindian Affairs Ministry to launch website

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Amerindian Affairs Ministry to launch website
Kaieteur News, 18 July 2007

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs will later this month launch a
website to ensure that information on issues pertaining to Amerindians
and their rights are more readily accessible.

While making the disclosure, Minister Carolyn Rodrigues said the
development follows government's recognition of the growing need for
information on existing services, entitlements and opportunities
available to Amerindians.

The Minister assured that information has been garnered from all
required sources and persons utilising the site will have access to
information pertaining to land rights, the Amerindian Act, the
hinterland scholarship programme and a variety of other social services
provided by the Ministry.

She explained that candidates for the scholarship programme would have
access to features such as online application forms, entry requirements
and the list of academic and technical-vocational programmes
facilitated through the Ministry.

Persons will have greater awareness of activities conducted in
Amerindian villages as well as policies by the government to enhance
and promote them.

Extended infrastructural facilities such as electricity in some
hinterland areas have facilitated access to implements which were
previously inaccessible such as internet access.

This has opened up avenues for information sharing, educational
research and existing opportunities on the coastland.

It is hoped also that the new initiative would encourage increased use
of the internet for data retrieval by Amerindians. (GINA)