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Reply to "What I said in New York: A synopsis By Ralph Ramkarran"

Gilbakka posted:
 

KAIETEUR NEWS, March 17, 2015: "Ramkarran wrote that in the 1960s, Plantation Bel Air, as it was then known, was a poor community of mainly small artisans, farm and city labourers and subsistence cattle and vegetable farmers. Ramkarran said that Jagan’s land, next door to where he was born, grew up and still live, was acquired for $2,000 in the early 1960s."

Don't know is Jagan paid for the land but $2,000 seems in the right ballpark. I still have the bill of sale from Hari Prashad when my parents bought the plot in Prashad Nagar on June 24th 1960 for $2,800.

I had many meetings with Cheddi and Janet when they lived in Bel Air and they were both very humble and friendly people. Of course he was the Opposition Leader back then and Burnham used to bully him around. I left Guyana before the first free and fair elections after independence so I can't speak for their actions after 1992.

FM
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