good for you,too bad you did not go down to linden and let the people there know how guyana is making the right turn for the good.why dont you go live in the people shoes for a year or go to better hope when there is high tide and the sea water is washing over  the seawall and see how lovely it is

Guyana don't have room for short sighted people. You remind me of Ramjattan when he opposed the Marriott project.

We need to change the country's name back to British Guiana.  Many people confuse Guyana with Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea. Many people think we are just another backward country in Africa.  The name Guyana is bad for business  and foreign investment.  As long as we use it the country is not going anywhere.  

Something during what was a crazy, unpredictable trip became clear: Guyana is on the cusp of big change.

Thanks to the AFC!

Mits, KFC only good fuh change dem Buckta and Panty and I hear only weekly.

Bhai, Look what Moses has turned into??/ SHAME indeed.

How about English Guyana instead?

There's French and Dutch Guyanas, there's also an English Guyana.

 The Marriott is a leech product fro the Brassington family so we do not want it.  Let Marriot build one if the options are so great to turn a profit.

 You are so right. Without them NCN, NICIL etc would all be going on their merry way and the people would be oblivious to the concretized culture of theft and patronage being fostered by the PPP.

Bhai, forget about Ramjattan and Moses. Read the article and note the serious indictments  that writer inferred on the PPP/C. For example:
Guyana is still a very poor country. The average monthly income is about $250. Crime remains rampant. Foreign remittances make up a large chunk of the economy. The infrastructure is broken.

Nehru a certain PPP elite is holding down 2 Acting positions and several directorships, even though the court has determined that it is not allowed by the constitution. These positions are all paid for by taxpayers. His monthly income is much much more than the meagre average of $250. This is how the "teefing" is legalized.

Correction here. Ther is no Dutch Guiana anymore. It's called Suriname. French Guiana still exists.

250 a month is not too bad for an undeveloped 3rd world nation and places the nation 116 out of 183 however, there needs to be further improvement.

I agree with Prashad here. One time I was talking to a girl from Nigeria. I told her that I was from Guyana.  Then she ask me if I worked in Accra.

Or even Dutch Guiana or name the country after one of the counties like the ancient county.... Berbice. I agree that the name Guyana is close to Ghana, West Africa, a nation riddled with social, political and economic problems.

And then they will think that Guyana is some backward British colony near to Papua New Guinea.

The British dont want us and were glad when we bid them good bye in 1966.  I am curious to know why so many West Indians fail to understand that they viewed us as a burden once the more profitable colonies (India, Kenya and Gold Coast...now Ghana) went their merry ways. 

We yielded lower revenues but were more expensive to run as our westernized ways led us to set up trade unions and demand proper wages, and a relatively decent social and physical infrastructure.

The official name is Guyane and it is an integral part of France.  The EU extends to the Caribbean (Martinique and Guadeloupe) and also to South America.

All this display is showing that Guyanese lack confidence in ourselves and want to run back to Mummy.  Problem is Mummy is an old lady and she has no interest in taking care of her adult kids.

Thats because Guyana has done a pitiful job in building a BRAND GUYANA.

You can ask the most illiterate peasant in China about Jamaica and they will say "yes Bob Marley, and Usain Bolt".    Jamaica is a very problem ridden island, but has spent a good deal of effort in building an international awareness of its people, culture and products.

Caribny you just don't get it.  You cannot build a brand that is similar to a bad one already being used by someone else.  It would be like building a motor car and calling it Lodo or Yaga after the Lada or Yugo cars then thinking that you will sell millions in North America.  SH-T leads to SH-T.  You cannot change that and people remember sh-t.

We had golding brand names with British Guiana ,British Guiana Flag and British Guiana dollar.  But we changed it up playing big and bad. Which is good for people who hate the British yet they would not think twice about buying  beer and  dinner for the british woman.  But now people cannot tell us apart from those African countries.  We are not going any where any time soon or later as long as we keep the name Guyana, Guyana flag and Guyana money.

There was never a BG dollar.  We used to use the BWI dollar...which now survives as the EC dollar, after Guyana, T&T, and Barbados got their independence and their own currencies.

I do not know why you think that BG had such a good reputation.  There was that infamous poem written by an English expat who was banished to BG....it went on about "tropical diseases....mud....mosquitoes".  BG was a known hardship post and many of them took every opportunity to vacation in Barbados, which they saw as more pleasant.

Islanders saw BG as a country where one would be attacked by some wild animal (including some terrifying huge mosquito), this after walking through miles of mud....BG being seen as a backward country with its only redeeming feature being an excellent educational system....And yes "big foot" was a disease associated with BG as well.

So change the name back to British Guiana and many will remember what a blighted place it was.  Even your "West on Trial" piece of garbage written by Cheddi doesnt say much positive about it.

If you want BG then accept being called a "mudhead" because that is what British Guianese were called then.

Caribnj don't disrespect "the West on Trail".  I sleep with a copy under my pillow every night of the week.  I am telling you reality of Guyana in the world context.  We are not going anywhere because the rest of the world think we are a coup-yam republic in West Africa.

That book is a racist piece of nonsense and an insult to AfroGuyanese who knew the truth of the 1960s.  And I read it several times.

No wonder to this day AfroGuyanese despise the PPP.

And people always thought that Guiana was part of Africa.  Guinea....Guiana.  See why?   Britain had mnay colonies in Africa so what is there to gain. No one will consider you British and the British will not soil their name by linking it it to the cesspool destroyed by their former colonials.

Caribny I have a doctor's appoint to go to but we will resume this discussion at a later date.

British Guiana did not have its own money.  CaribNY what do you call this.

http://www.banknoteexpress.com/gallery/brguiana.html

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Britis...V-RARE-/320663396542

http://numismondo.com/pm/brg/

All of these notes are worth more money today.

Carib is a dunce.

CBJ's West on Trial sparked my political interest when I read it in high school many many moons ago. That book should be mandatory for all Guyanese children to read.

They are reading in an a number of universities in America and probably in Third World countries too. 

Still a piece of racisty garbage. 

Why dont you print notes from 1964 too?  I mean if the BG dollar was so powerful it ought to have been in circulation around then.  It wasnt.  It was the BWEE dollar.  BWEE wasnt only an airline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Guiana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...h_West_Indies_dollar

Note the  part about currency in the right hand corner, and in the second post.  British West Indian dollar was used until 1965.

I especially love the Barclays Bank note and the Royal Bank note.  Those werent BG notes BTW.   They were on the full faith and credit of those banks and only circulated for use in BG.

Stick to the issue CaribNY.  You said that British Guiana had no currency of its own.  Did you see how much one British Guiana dollar is worth today on EBAY.

$1 British Guiana dollar = $1360 dollars US. 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Britis...V-RARE-/320663396542

We had golden brand names and we F them up.  We are not going anywhere any time soon or later.  And unlike CaribNY, most Guyanese cannot afford to visit  Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea or any of those places where the rest of the world think Guyanese live.

If after so many years people don't know about the existence of a country called Guyana then them want licks.

 give the place a spanish name-but they used to call it "Wild Coast". Confused they were about the coast line.

Guyana must never ever ever get a Spanish or Portugeese name.  The day that happens will be something.

In Venezuela they call it Gujana and some also say Y-ana. And Venezuela has designs on Guyana.

Let them come take it.  If they want the USA next to them.  Let them come try take it.

About half of the Venezuelan map consists Guyana. They say that it is under reclamation. 

Excerpt for KN:

The essence of our reality in Guyana is one of racism in politics and political voting behaviour. That is changing slowly in several distinct patterns: (1) More voters are refusing to vote for race-based parties resulting in lower overall voter turnout (69% in 2006 and 73% in 2011), (2) Multi-racial political platforms such as the AFC have cemented vital support and grown in the last two election although slowly, (3) Other powerful issues such as corruption, crime, the economy and wrongdoing have replaced race as the primary voting consideration in the minds of some voters. In the case of the PPP, the hijacking of the party by the Jagdeoites is a telling factor in how PPP supporters view this cabal dominating the PPP.

i agree to rename guyana i say chor chor the indian word for thief thief it will let the world know that is the ppp government  ruling guyana and also its a country to keep away from so when a canadian white ask me which country i am from and i tell them chor chor they will say oh that country that is being rule by them indian thief

You are sick to the core. You should tell Guyanese that them Canadians would take an axe and smash the brains of seals to attract more tourists to Canada. How's that for a sales pitch?      

If we go back to being called British Guiana we might as well put up a sign saying that we are the falkland islands.  This is because as British Guiana we will become sitting ducks for land claims not only from Venezula but every latin country in South America.

Stick to THIS issue.  The BG$ was replaced by the BWI$.  Why if the BG$ was so strong??????

And Guinea, Guiana.   Apparently the stigma is still there.  It is not only  since 1966 that Guyana was mistaken for other nations...in fcat we were even confused with Papua New Guinea.  You can well see why this is when you check the spoelling of Guiana and Guinea.

You will never get permission to add "British" as Guyana is not British and the British dumped us along with their other money losing colonies in the Caribbean.  This after introducing new laws in 1962 aimed at blocking migration from these impoverished and money draining territories.

I also see you are an ignorant man.  The valuation is based on the scarcity of the note and not on its true exchange value.  It has NONE because it is not legal tender any where.  So goi buy that BG$ and try exchanging it for a US$ in a bank.

And let me remind you that British Guiana in the 1930s was no "gold brand".  It was a severely impverished country with no infrastructure outside of G/twn and the sugar estates.  Most Guyanese live din grinding poverty, malaria was rife and a smal planter class ruled with a tight fist.  If you read "West on Trial" you would know this.