The symposium began a process of bringing issues on the minds of those in the region to the foreground and giving those issues a voice. It was very much a starting place for what needs to be a much broader, more robust, regionally representative, and more inclusive dialogue on the legacies, diversity of identities and…

The discovery of oil in Guyana is an opportunity for the Muslim community to demonstrate its inherent strength and methodology in securing the family entity as the bedrock of society, and to provide leadership in all areas of nation building. This is important as the new oil dynamics threaten Guyana's foundational fabric.