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‘Be the change you want to see’ – Ayodele Roache

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– 19-year-old councillor plans to return Georgetown to its golden days

“I decided to run [for councillor] because I wanted to be the change that I would like to see and if I, one youth could get up and be the change, it could spark a ripple effect so that other young people would be inspired to get up and be the change that they want.”

Ayodele Roache being sworn in as a Councillor.

Those were the words of 19-year-old Ayodele Roache who, on Friday last, was sworn in as a Proportional Representation (PR) Councillor to the Georgetown Mayor and City Council. She is also the youngest member of the council and represents the Alliance for Change.

According to Roache, she is representing the youth voice and called on other young people like herself to “be the positive change” needed and take up the mantle of leadership. She advised they learn from past mistakes and create better ideas to lead the country forward.

During her tenure, she plans to focus on developing three areas – creating more opportunities for youth entrepreneurship, security and the development of green spaces around the city.

Roache is of the opinion that by tackling these three areas, she can reduce some of the incorrect stereotypes associated with today’s youth.

Additionally, she plans on working with the council to address the issue of garbage collection and restoring Georgetown to the Garden City she often heard spoken of whilst growing up.

“I look forward to working with the council to see what their approach is; then give my input and see how best we can find a solution for proper garbage collection and solid waste management to restore this city to the green city I heard…. So that all the other municipalities around Guyana could follow suit,” the young lady stated.

Roache, along with 29 other councillors, will officially being duties on January 1, 2019.

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Golden days are generally associated with long period of enhanced economic activity, peace, era of good feeling, good life, etc...

...some might refer to such times as Pax Mongolica, Pax Romana, the Golden Age of Islam, etc...

..so when exactly would you folks consider as the "Golden days" in Guyana?  before independence, the 1970s, 1992, .....?  

And, what exactly was "golden" about that specific age....everything I have been reading about Guyana so far seems to me like God Grew Tired of this Place...it has been rocky since the white man left....am I wrong?

jes asking.

V
VishMahabir posted:

Golden days are generally associated with long period of enhanced economic activity, peace, era of good feeling, good life, etc...

...some might refer to such times as Pax Mongolica, Pax Romana, the Golden Age of Islam, etc...

..so when exactly would you folks consider as the "Golden days" in Guyana?  before independence, the 1970s, 1992, .....?  

And, what exactly was "golden" about that specific age....everything I have been reading about Guyana so far seems to me like God Grew Tired of this Place...it has been rocky since the white man left....am I wrong?

jes asking.

Best time in Guyana was colonial days. GT was known as the Garden City. Guyana as the breadbasket of the Caribbean. Exchange rate was 2 Gy dollars gets you 1 USD. Better quality of people (brain drain means only Nehrus are left there now). Modern society in GT, cricketers and other foreigners raved about the place. And this is with the racial disturbance of the 60's.

Carib will disagree. He says he didn't like to be told what to do. No one is telling him what to do now, but now there is nothing to do. He says he didn't have freedom of choice and opportunity back then. Today he has freedom of choice but there is nothing to choose and no opportunity for anyone. Suh tek yuh pick.

Most of the enjoyable stuff these old timers write about here were during colonial days and up to mid 70's when they whole place went down the toilet. Burnham in charge, Cheddi smiling and nodding wid he "critical support" in the late 70's early 80's I think. We were "gifted" with this commie idiot Cheddi and the "smart" megalomaniac Forbes. Doomed to failure!

Then came death squads. Black men executed. Drug cartels. Drug Lords. Ordinary people strung out on drugs and an explosion of crime to support they habit. Indian "elite" class. That was under Rat Man.

Just watch how they gon respond. When Gilbakka read dis he gon put on he shut jack and camouflage cap fuh talk like Fidel about how great post colonial days was in de emerging "socialist" guyana. And Carib gon deh next to he. One black, one Indian cussing meh. Dat's how yuh gon kno ah right.

FM
Iguana posted:
Nehru posted:

The only golden age Guyana had was from 1992 to 2014.!!!

 

Lying DOG!

Come on now, you accuse me of being uncivil and now you refer to our esteemed dj Nehru as a DOG?  Tell us if we experienced any golden age under PNC pre 92 and post 2014.  If you remember pre 92, there was  no milk under PNC and PPP came to power in 92 and shared milk, then in 2015 after sporting for 6 months the PNC once again gave black tea. 

FM

On a serious note thought, the only redemption for GT is to raise taxes and stop looking to central govt to fill the gaps. The town should be self sufficient, not stealing from Peter to pay for Paul. 

FM
Drugb posted:
Iguana posted:
Nehru posted:

The only golden age Guyana had was from 1992 to 2014.!!!

 

Lying DOG!

Come on now, you accuse me of being uncivil and now you refer to our esteemed dj Nehru as a DOG?  Tell us if we experienced any golden age under PNC pre 92 and post 2014.  If you remember pre 92, there was  no milk under PNC and PPP came to power in 92 and shared milk, then in 2015 after sporting for 6 months the PNC once again gave black tea. 

Accused you of a lot of stuff, doubt "uncivil" is one of them. Nehru is a lying DOG who contributes nothing here and that is evident! He may be esteemed to you, but to me he is a lying, racist! Nothing worse. 

FM
Drugb posted:

On a serious note thought, the only redemption for GT is to raise taxes and stop looking to central govt to fill the gaps. The town should be self sufficient, not stealing from Peter to pay for Paul. 

They should start COLLECTING taxes. And this is not confined to GT alone.

FM
Iguana posted:
VishMahabir posted:

Golden days are generally associated with long period of enhanced economic activity, peace, era of good feeling, good life, etc...

...some might refer to such times as Pax Mongolica, Pax Romana, the Golden Age of Islam, etc...

..so when exactly would you folks consider as the "Golden days" in Guyana?  before independence, the 1970s, 1992, .....?  

And, what exactly was "golden" about that specific age....everything I have been reading about Guyana so far seems to me like God Grew Tired of this Place...it has been rocky since the white man left....am I wrong?

jes asking.

Best time in Guyana was colonial days. GT was known as the Garden City. Guyana as the breadbasket of the Caribbean. Exchange rate was 2 Gy dollars gets you 1 USD. Better quality of people (brain drain means only Nehrus are left there now). Modern society in GT, cricketers and other foreigners raved about the place. And this is with the racial disturbance of the 60's.

Carib will disagree. He says he didn't like to be told what to do. No one is telling him what to do now, but now there is nothing to do. He says he didn't have freedom of choice and opportunity back then. Today he has freedom of choice but there is nothing to choose and no opportunity for anyone. Suh tek yuh pick.

Most of the enjoyable stuff these old timers write about here were during colonial days and up to mid 70's when they whole place went down the toilet. Burnham in charge, Cheddi smiling and nodding wid he "critical support" in the late 70's early 80's I think. We were "gifted" with this commie idiot Cheddi and the "smart" megalomaniac Forbes. Doomed to failure!

Then came death squads. Black men executed. Drug cartels. Drug Lords. Ordinary people strung out on drugs and an explosion of crime to support they habit. Indian "elite" class. That was under Rat Man.

Just watch how they gon respond. When Gilbakka read dis he gon put on he shut jack and camouflage cap fuh talk like Fidel about how great post colonial days was in de emerging "socialist" guyana. And Carib gon deh next to he. One black, one Indian cussing meh. Dat's how yuh gon kno ah right.

Thanks!

V
Iguana posted:
Drugb posted:

On a serious note thought, the only redemption for GT is to raise taxes and stop looking to central govt to fill the gaps. The town should be self sufficient, not stealing from Peter to pay for Paul. 

They should start COLLECTING taxes. And this is not confined to GT alone.

It is not so much about the inefficiency in collecting tax rather than the tax rate. If you are not an apartment dweller but a house owner in the US you would know that a town first has a budget estimate based on projected expenses, then determines the tax rate. In the end it is a simple multiplication and addition problem. But it seems that GT don't have such budget planning in place as they always keep begging for money and crying broke.

FM

@Former Member

Gilbakka is happy to disappoint you. Socialists & dialectics are inseparable. What happens in society today stems from what happened in the past. What will happen in future depends on what happens presently. Gilbakka takes the long view of history.

I believe Guyana's Golden Age came and left us during the 18th century. It came in Essequibo and left in Berbice. It started with Laurens Storm van Gravesande and ended gloriously with Cuffy, Atta & Accabre. 

Guyana's Golden Age was the birthing, growing and naming of countless communities. A time of pioneering, trailblazing, battling heroically and victoriously against Nature.

Guyana's Golden Age was the best of times; it was the worst of times too. It was a time of laying foundations that keep serving Guyanese up to now --- seawalls, roads, canals, forts etc.

It was a time of slavery and a time of freedom. 1763 witnessed the Caribbean's first slave revolution. Slavery & revolt, the clash of opposites, ie one dimension of dialectics. 

By the time East Indians arrived in 1838 Guyana's Golden Age was already history.

FM
Gilbakka posted:

@Former Member

Gilbakka is happy to disappoint you. Socialists & dialectics are inseparable. What happens in society today stems from what happened in the past. What will happen in future depends on what happens presently. Gilbakka takes the long view of history.

I believe Guyana's Golden Age came and left us during the 18th century. It came in Essequibo and left in Berbice. It started with Laurens Storm van Gravesande and ended gloriously with Cuffy, Atta & Accabre. 

Guyana's Golden Age was the birthing, growing and naming of countless communities. A time of pioneering, trailblazing, battling heroically and victoriously against Nature.

Guyana's Golden Age was the best of times; it was the worst of times too. It was a time of laying foundations that keep serving Guyanese up to now --- seawalls, roads, canals, forts etc.

It was a time of slavery and a time of freedom. 1763 witnessed the Caribbean's first slave revolution. Slavery & revolt, the clash of opposites, ie one dimension of dialectics. 

By the time East Indians arrived in 1838 Guyana's Golden Age was already history.

Gilly,

Your historical and dialectical materialism interpretation of Guyanese history aside, your Golden Age takes us way back in time...to a very dark age in time when chattel slavery was in full display and when the humanity of some were denied.

Yours was a Golden Age for the Europeans, not for people of color. 

Is there nothing in your contemporary lifetime that reminds you of Guyana's "golden days" ?.  

This is not what 19-year-old Ayodele Roache has in mind

....your experience living in Guyana must have approximated to the Hobbesian state of nature...where life for you must have been "short, brutish, and full of misery".

 Hard to believe...

V
VishMahabir posted:
Gilbakka posted:

@Former Member

Gilbakka is happy to disappoint you. Socialists & dialectics are inseparable. What happens in society today stems from what happened in the past. What will happen in future depends on what happens presently. Gilbakka takes the long view of history.

I believe Guyana's Golden Age came and left us during the 18th century. It came in Essequibo and left in Berbice. It started with Laurens Storm van Gravesande and ended gloriously with Cuffy, Atta & Accabre. 

Guyana's Golden Age was the birthing, growing and naming of countless communities. A time of pioneering, trailblazing, battling heroically and victoriously against Nature.

Guyana's Golden Age was the best of times; it was the worst of times too. It was a time of laying foundations that keep serving Guyanese up to now --- seawalls, roads, canals, forts etc.

It was a time of slavery and a time of freedom. 1763 witnessed the Caribbean's first slave revolution. Slavery & revolt, the clash of opposites, ie one dimension of dialectics. 

By the time East Indians arrived in 1838 Guyana's Golden Age was already history.

Gilly,

Your historical and dialectical materialism interpretation of Guyanese history aside, your Golden Age takes us way back in time...to a very dark age in time when chattel slavery was in full display and when the humanity of some were denied.

Yours was a Golden Age for the Europeans, not for people of color. 

Is there nothing in your contemporary lifetime that reminds you of Guyana's "golden days" ?.  

This is not what 19-year-old Ayodele Roache has in mind

....your experience living in Guyana must have approximated to the Hobbesian state of nature...where life for you must have been "short, brutish, and full of misery".

 Hard to believe...

That Banna Gilly give some strange introspection!  His best days in Guyana was 200 years prior to his birth, and he sees the best days of humanity is a socialist utopia maybe 200 years from now. 

There is a lose marble somewhere!

Baseman
Iguana posted:
VishMahabir posted:

Golden days are generally associated with long period of enhanced economic activity, peace, era of good feeling, good life, etc...

...some might refer to such times as Pax Mongolica, Pax Romana, the Golden Age of Islam, etc...

..so when exactly would you folks consider as the "Golden days" in Guyana?  before independence, the 1970s, 1992, .....?  

And, what exactly was "golden" about that specific age....everything I have been reading about Guyana so far seems to me like God Grew Tired of this Place...it has been rocky since the white man left....am I wrong?

jes asking.

Best time in Guyana was colonial days. GT was known as the Garden City. Guyana as the breadbasket of the Caribbean. Exchange rate was 2 Gy dollars gets you 1 USD. Better quality of people (brain drain means only Nehrus are left there now). Modern society in GT, cricketers and other foreigners raved about the place. And this is with the racial disturbance of the 60's.

Carib will disagree. He says he didn't like to be told what to do. No one is telling him what to do now, but now there is nothing to do. He says he didn't have freedom of choice and opportunity back then. Today he has freedom of choice but there is nothing to choose and no opportunity for anyone. Suh tek yuh pick.

Most of the enjoyable stuff these old timers write about here were during colonial days and up to mid 70's when they whole place went down the toilet. Burnham in charge, Cheddi smiling and nodding wid he "critical support" in the late 70's early 80's I think. We were "gifted" with this commie idiot Cheddi and the "smart" megalomaniac Forbes. Doomed to failure!

Then came death squads. Black men executed. Drug cartels. Drug Lords. Ordinary people strung out on drugs and an explosion of crime to support they habit. Indian "elite" class. That was under Rat Man.

Just watch how they gon respond. When Gilbakka read dis he gon put on he shut jack and camouflage cap fuh talk like Fidel about how great post colonial days was in de emerging "socialist" guyana. And Carib gon deh next to he. One black, one Indian cussing meh. Dat's how yuh gon kno ah right.

Guyana's Golden Age was during the colonial era. I've read numerous books, articles, world reports, etc. about your first paragraph. I was a little gal in Primary School when Sir David Rose visited my village. We were asked to write an essay about his visit, mine was selected for the school magazine.

An American told me the British kept Guyana together. After the British departed, the Blacks and Indos have been fighting as to who should rule who.

FM
Last edited by Former Member
Leonora posted:
Iguana posted:
VishMahabir posted:

Golden days are generally associated with long period of enhanced economic activity, peace, era of good feeling, good life, etc...

...some might refer to such times as Pax Mongolica, Pax Romana, the Golden Age of Islam, etc...

..so when exactly would you folks consider as the "Golden days" in Guyana?  before independence, the 1970s, 1992, .....?  

And, what exactly was "golden" about that specific age....everything I have been reading about Guyana so far seems to me like God Grew Tired of this Place...it has been rocky since the white man left....am I wrong?

jes asking.

Best time in Guyana was colonial days. GT was known as the Garden City. Guyana as the breadbasket of the Caribbean. Exchange rate was 2 Gy dollars gets you 1 USD. Better quality of people (brain drain means only Nehrus are left there now). Modern society in GT, cricketers and other foreigners raved about the place. And this is with the racial disturbance of the 60's.

Carib will disagree. He says he didn't like to be told what to do. No one is telling him what to do now, but now there is nothing to do. He says he didn't have freedom of choice and opportunity back then. Today he has freedom of choice but there is nothing to choose and no opportunity for anyone. Suh tek yuh pick.

Most of the enjoyable stuff these old timers write about here were during colonial days and up to mid 70's when they whole place went down the toilet. Burnham in charge, Cheddi smiling and nodding wid he "critical support" in the late 70's early 80's I think. We were "gifted" with this commie idiot Cheddi and the "smart" megalomaniac Forbes. Doomed to failure!

Then came death squads. Black men executed. Drug cartels. Drug Lords. Ordinary people strung out on drugs and an explosion of crime to support they habit. Indian "elite" class. That was under Rat Man.

Just watch how they gon respond. When Gilbakka read dis he gon put on he shut jack and camouflage cap fuh talk like Fidel about how great post colonial days was in de emerging "socialist" guyana. And Carib gon deh next to he. One black, one Indian cussing meh. Dat's how yuh gon kno ah right.

Guyana's Golden Age was during the colonial era. I've read numerous books, articles, world reports, etc. about your first paragraph. I was a little gal in Primary School when Sir David Rose visited my village. We were asked to write an essay about his visit, mine was selected for the school magazine.

An American told me the British kept Guyana together. After the British departed, the Blacks and Indos have been fighting as to who should rule who.

Many seem to think so.  I believe the stability, the crime control and the fact that many decisions were make beyond the control of locals made it more acceptable.  And when they stepped out of line too much, the Brits sent in the warships and troops, kick them out and throw them in jail!

We like to cuss the Brits, but they knew what they were protecting us from........ourselves!

Baseman

Hey Base, my village was all Indo and we were surrounded by Black villages. During the riots, the village was under lockdown and Brit soldiers patrolled the streets to ensure our safety.

FM
Leonora posted:
Iguana posted:
VishMahabir posted:

Golden days are generally associated with long period of enhanced economic activity, peace, era of good feeling, good life, etc...

...some might refer to such times as Pax Mongolica, Pax Romana, the Golden Age of Islam, etc...

..so when exactly would you folks consider as the "Golden days" in Guyana?  before independence, the 1970s, 1992, .....?  

And, what exactly was "golden" about that specific age....everything I have been reading about Guyana so far seems to me like God Grew Tired of this Place...it has been rocky since the white man left....am I wrong?

jes asking.

Best time in Guyana was colonial days. GT was known as the Garden City. Guyana as the breadbasket of the Caribbean. Exchange rate was 2 Gy dollars gets you 1 USD. Better quality of people (brain drain means only Nehrus are left there now). Modern society in GT, cricketers and other foreigners raved about the place. And this is with the racial disturbance of the 60's.

Carib will disagree. He says he didn't like to be told what to do. No one is telling him what to do now, but now there is nothing to do. He says he didn't have freedom of choice and opportunity back then. Today he has freedom of choice but there is nothing to choose and no opportunity for anyone. Suh tek yuh pick.

Most of the enjoyable stuff these old timers write about here were during colonial days and up to mid 70's when they whole place went down the toilet. Burnham in charge, Cheddi smiling and nodding wid he "critical support" in the late 70's early 80's I think. We were "gifted" with this commie idiot Cheddi and the "smart" megalomaniac Forbes. Doomed to failure!

Then came death squads. Black men executed. Drug cartels. Drug Lords. Ordinary people strung out on drugs and an explosion of crime to support they habit. Indian "elite" class. That was under Rat Man.

Just watch how they gon respond. When Gilbakka read dis he gon put on he shut jack and camouflage cap fuh talk like Fidel about how great post colonial days was in de emerging "socialist" guyana. And Carib gon deh next to he. One black, one Indian cussing meh. Dat's how yuh gon kno ah right.

Guyana's Golden Age was during the colonial era. I've read numerous books, articles, world reports, etc. about your first paragraph. I was a little gal in Primary School when Sir David Rose visited my village. We were asked to write an essay about his visit, mine was selected for the school magazine.

An American told me the British kept Guyana together. After the British departed, the Blacks and Indos have been fighting as to who should rule who.

Dem still fighting, more so on GNI...2 generations later, after the white man gave up and left....  

V
Baseman posted:
VishMahabir posted:
Gilbakka posted:

@Former Member

Gilbakka is happy to disappoint you. Socialists & dialectics are inseparable. What happens in society today stems from what happened in the past. What will happen in future depends on what happens presently. Gilbakka takes the long view of history.

I believe Guyana's Golden Age came and left us during the 18th century. It came in Essequibo and left in Berbice. It started with Laurens Storm van Gravesande and ended gloriously with Cuffy, Atta & Accabre. 

Guyana's Golden Age was the birthing, growing and naming of countless communities. A time of pioneering, trailblazing, battling heroically and victoriously against Nature.

Guyana's Golden Age was the best of times; it was the worst of times too. It was a time of laying foundations that keep serving Guyanese up to now --- seawalls, roads, canals, forts etc.

It was a time of slavery and a time of freedom. 1763 witnessed the Caribbean's first slave revolution. Slavery & revolt, the clash of opposites, ie one dimension of dialectics. 

By the time East Indians arrived in 1838 Guyana's Golden Age was already history.

Gilly,

Your historical and dialectical materialism interpretation of Guyanese history aside, your Golden Age takes us way back in time...to a very dark age in time when chattel slavery was in full display and when the humanity of some were denied.

Yours was a Golden Age for the Europeans, not for people of color. 

Is there nothing in your contemporary lifetime that reminds you of Guyana's "golden days" ?.  

This is not what 19-year-old Ayodele Roache has in mind

....your experience living in Guyana must have approximated to the Hobbesian state of nature...where life for you must have been "short, brutish, and full of misery".

 Hard to believe...

That Banna Gilly give some strange introspection!  His best days in Guyana was 200 years prior to his birth, and he sees the best days of humanity is a socialist utopia maybe 200 years from now. 

There is a lose marble somewhere!

Socialists are students of history. Gilly is a student of Guyanese history and world history. I would be dishonest to assert that Guyana's Golden Age occurred during the past 67 years, ie during my lifetime. I lived only 15 years under colonialism, from 1951 to 1966. Nothing golden there. I read intensively and extensively every day and derive my knowledge & opinions therefrom. 

FM
Gilbakka posted:
Baseman posted:
VishMahabir posted:
Gilbakka posted:

@Former Member

Gilbakka is happy to disappoint you. Socialists & dialectics are inseparable. What happens in society today stems from what happened in the past. What will happen in future depends on what happens presently. Gilbakka takes the long view of history.

I believe Guyana's Golden Age came and left us during the 18th century. It came in Essequibo and left in Berbice. It started with Laurens Storm van Gravesande and ended gloriously with Cuffy, Atta & Accabre. 

Guyana's Golden Age was the birthing, growing and naming of countless communities. A time of pioneering, trailblazing, battling heroically and victoriously against Nature.

Guyana's Golden Age was the best of times; it was the worst of times too. It was a time of laying foundations that keep serving Guyanese up to now --- seawalls, roads, canals, forts etc.

It was a time of slavery and a time of freedom. 1763 witnessed the Caribbean's first slave revolution. Slavery & revolt, the clash of opposites, ie one dimension of dialectics. 

By the time East Indians arrived in 1838 Guyana's Golden Age was already history.

Gilly,

Your historical and dialectical materialism interpretation of Guyanese history aside, your Golden Age takes us way back in time...to a very dark age in time when chattel slavery was in full display and when the humanity of some were denied.

Yours was a Golden Age for the Europeans, not for people of color. 

Is there nothing in your contemporary lifetime that reminds you of Guyana's "golden days" ?.  

This is not what 19-year-old Ayodele Roache has in mind

....your experience living in Guyana must have approximated to the Hobbesian state of nature...where life for you must have been "short, brutish, and full of misery".

 Hard to believe...

That Banna Gilly give some strange introspection!  His best days in Guyana was 200 years prior to his birth, and he sees the best days of humanity is a socialist utopia maybe 200 years from now. 

There is a lose marble somewhere!

Socialists are students of history. Gilly is a student of Guyanese history and world history. I would be dishonest to assert that Guyana's Golden Age occurred during the past 67 years, ie during my lifetime. I lived only 15 years under colonialism, from 1951 to 1966. Nothing golden there. I read intensively and extensively every day and derive my knowledge & opinions therefrom. 

Not doubting your feelings, but why you believe it was the best 200 years prior to your existence?

Baseman
Iguana posted:
Nehru posted:

The only golden age Guyana had was from 1992 to 2014.!!!

 

Lying DOG!

A stinking PIG like you would not know is shit you eating since that is normal for you.

Nehru
Leonora posted:

Gil is giving all the accolades to the Dutch.

The Dutch were "supposedly" some of the best of the Colonials to their colonies.

Apart [of course] from the cooking of a slave alive in a Dutch oven in [now] Surinam!

Baseman

@Baseman

When the British grabbed Guyana in 1803 all basic infrastructure was already in place --- roads, canals, dams, kokers, seawalls etc. The British got a readymade land, sort of.

But about 200 years before that, when the Dutch arrived the entire landscape was bush, swamp and some native benabs. At that time ships used to avoid landing at the Wild Coast, as the land was called.

Picture this, a few hundred Dutchmen decided to settle, to build something out of sheer bush and swamp. They had to use unpaid labour because slavery was the mode of production in the western hemisphere at that time. The Dutchmen and their African slaves manually cut down bush, dug canals, set up a sound drainage & irrigation system, introduced horses and various livestock and systems of agro industry for sugar production. In short, it was an epoch of creativity and optimism. By the mid-1700s Dutch Governor Gravesande even started inviting Englishmen from Barbados to settle in Demerara-Essequibo.

For me creativity in whatever form is a wonderful thing. By the 18th century that former wild coast of bush and swamp was attracting major world powers like Britain and France. Guyana had become something of value.

True, slavery is abominable. But like other things, slavery dialectically produces its opposite --- freedom through revolt. Guyana's history-making revolt occurred in 1763. And 200 years after that Cuffy became independent Guyana's national hero. Rightly so.

I think our golden age was the 18th century. The British reviled and belittled the Dutch contribution to Guyana's development. Dem badminded rass.

FM
Nehru posted:
Iguana posted:
Nehru posted:

The only golden age Guyana had was from 1992 to 2014.!!!

Lying DOG!

A stinking PIG like you would not know is shit you eating since that is normal for you.

Now now bhai Nehru, calm down .. be calm .. CALM, CALM ...

FM
Nehru posted:
Iguana posted:
Nehru posted:

The only golden age Guyana had was from 1992 to 2014.!!!

 

Lying DOG!

A stinking PIG like you would not know is shit you eating since that is normal for you.

Bai, yuh posts gat one theme - shit eating, followed by batty washing. Shit at both ends. Then yuh throw in "parasite", de worms in yuh shit. Dis is wha deh in yuh subconscious, proof positive dat yuh mind infected wid and dwells solely pon shit. Yuh consumed wid shit. You are a piece of shit! Now gwan suh and roll in yuh shit, arite Mr. YAWK?

FM
Gilbakka posted:

Socialists are students of history. Gilly is a student of Guyanese history and world history. I would be dishonest to assert that Guyana's Golden Age occurred during the past 67 years, ie during my lifetime. I lived only 15 years under colonialism, from 1951 to 1966. Nothing golden there. I read intensively and extensively every day and derive my knowledge & opinions therefrom. 

Gilly, these socialists who yuh seh are students of history should have learnt by now that dis "socialism" ting doan wuk. Stop trying it! It bruk up plenty countries!

FM
Leonora posted:

Guyana's Golden Age was during the colonial era. I've read numerous books, articles, world reports, etc. about your first paragraph. I was a little gal in Primary School when Sir David Rose visited my village. We were asked to write an essay about his visit, mine was selected for the school magazine.

An American told me the British kept Guyana together. After the British departed, the Blacks and Indos have been fighting as to who should rule who.

I will limit my comments to Georgetown, I cannot speak for the rural areas. Yes, there was a "golden" age there complete with elitists of both races - the Kissoons and other wealthy Indian businessmen and black/red people filling the upper ranks of the civil service and other professional positions.

But ordinary folks moved up too, into a middle class, for example, many bought cars for the first time. This growth in the middle class which began under colonialsims lasted through independence and into the 70's, even though the political and other systems all around were gradually being eroded. Eventually this erosion affected the growth of the middle class.

Growing up as a child I remember the events my parents would attend at Tower Hotel etc. In those days Tower, Pegasus, Palm Court, Park Hotel were places of sophistication. Company and other events. Saturday night the "elite" would gather. For the  upper middle class, Saturday night poolside at the Pegasus with a group like Tradewinds playing late into the night. Similar at other venues.

No wine and guh down and Rum 'til I die culture. Georgetown was clean. The parapets were cut every Friday. "Gutter man" came and cleaned gutters after the grass was cut. Garbage pickup by a truck with men who had a big basket and pitchforks, came into your yard and pulled out the contents of your garbage can. Georgetown was beautiful, greenery abounded, the Botanical and Promenade gardens filled with flowers. The Avenue on Main Street, quiet for walking.

Then you had areas like Prashad Nagar, Bel Air, Subryanville, etc. that looked like the American suburbs. Big homes, hardly saw anyone while driving thru.

Stores like Bookers, Fogartys, Bettencourts were a joy to walk thru. Evenings people would go "window shopping". Regent street had its own set of stores run by middle class Indians. They sold everything. Also had places like JP Santos. Buy your car at Sandbach Parker.

Much more, too much to write. Of course there was the occasional "choke and rob". DV cases. etc. But a golden era gone. If the young lady wants to bring something "back" then she should know what used to be there.

 

FM
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Iguana posted:
Leonora posted:

Guyana's Golden Age was during the colonial era. I've read numerous books, articles, world reports, etc. about your first paragraph. I was a little gal in Primary School when Sir David Rose visited my village. We were asked to write an essay about his visit, mine was selected for the school magazine.

An American told me the British kept Guyana together. After the British departed, the Blacks and Indos have been fighting as to who should rule who.

I will limit my comments to Georgetown, I cannot speak for the rural areas. Yes, there was a "golden" age there complete with elitists of both races - the Kissoons and other wealthy Indian businessmen and black/red people filling the upper ranks of the civil service and other professional positions.

But ordinary folks moved up too, into a middle class, for example, many bought cars for the first time. This growth in the middle class which began under colonialsims lasted through independence and into the 70's, even though the political and other systems all around were gradually being eroded. Eventually this erosion affected the growth of the middle class.

Growing up as a child I remember the events my parents would attend at Tower Hotel etc. In those days Tower, Pegasus, Palm Court, Park Hotel were places of sophistication. Company and other events. Saturday night the "elite" would gather. For the  upper middle class, Saturday night poolside at the Pegasus with a group like Tradewinds playing late into the night. Similar at other venues.

No wine and guh down and Rum 'til I die culture. Georgetown was clean. The parapets were cut every Friday. "Gutter man" came and cleaned gutters after the grass was cut. Garbage pickup by a truck with men who had a big basket and pitchforks, came into your yard and pulled out the contents of your garbage can. Georgetown was beautiful, greenery abounded, the Botanical and Promenade gardens filled with flowers. The Avenue on Main Street, quiet for walking.

Then you had areas like Prashad Nagar, Bel Air, Subryanville, etc. that looked like the American suburbs. Big homes, hardly saw anyone while driving thru.

Stores like Bookers, Fogartys, Bettencourts were a joy to walk thru. Evenings people would go "window shopping". Regent street had its own set of stores run by middle class Indians. They sold everything. Also had places like JP Santos. Buy your car at Sandbach Parker.

Much more, too much to write. Of course there was the occasional "choke and rob". DV cases. etc. But a golden era gone. If the young lady wants to bring something "back" then she should know what used to be there.

 

Abie kuntry folks use to tek abie cast nets and go ketch hassa, patwa and houri. And when bandin open, we use to go get up early mannin and get deh before sun come up. No big city stores, no dress up. Go watch wan movie and ride you bicycle go look fuh gyals. Nobady bin baddah you.

FM
skeldon_man posted:
Iguana posted:
Leonora posted:

Guyana's Golden Age was during the colonial era. I've read numerous books, articles, world reports, etc. about your first paragraph. I was a little gal in Primary School when Sir David Rose visited my village. We were asked to write an essay about his visit, mine was selected for the school magazine.

An American told me the British kept Guyana together. After the British departed, the Blacks and Indos have been fighting as to who should rule who.

I will limit my comments to Georgetown, I cannot speak for the rural areas. Yes, there was a "golden" age there complete with elitists of both races - the Kissoons and other wealthy Indian businessmen and black/red people filling the upper ranks of the civil service and other professional positions.

But ordinary folks moved up too, into a middle class, for example, many bought cars for the first time. This growth in the middle class which began under colonialsims lasted through independence and into the 70's, even though the political and other systems all around were gradually being eroded. Eventually this erosion affected the growth of the middle class.

Growing up as a child I remember the events my parents would attend at Tower Hotel etc. In those days Tower, Pegasus, Palm Court, Park Hotel were places of sophistication. Company and other events. Saturday night the "elite" would gather. For the  upper middle class, Saturday night poolside at the Pegasus with a group like Tradewinds playing late into the night. Similar at other venues.

No wine and guh down and Rum 'til I die culture. Georgetown was clean. The parapets were cut every Friday. "Gutter man" came and cleaned gutters after the grass was cut. Garbage pickup by a truck with men who had a big basket and pitchforks, came into your yard and pulled out the contents of your garbage can. Georgetown was beautiful, greenery abounded, the Botanical and Promenade gardens filled with flowers. The Avenue on Main Street, quiet for walking.

Then you had areas like Prashad Nagar, Bel Air, Subryanville, etc. that looked like the American suburbs. Big homes, hardly saw anyone while driving thru.

Stores like Bookers, Fogartys, Bettencourts were a joy to walk thru. Evenings people would go "window shopping". Regent street had its own set of stores run by middle class Indians. They sold everything. Also had places like JP Santos. Buy your car at Sandbach Parker.

Much more, too much to write. Of course there was the occasional "choke and rob". DV cases. etc. But a golden era gone. If the young lady wants to bring something "back" then she should know what used to be there.

 

Abie kuntry folks use to tek abie cast nets and go ketch hassa, patwa and houri. And when bandin open, we use to go get up early mannin and get deh before sun come up. No big city stores, no dress up. Go watch wan movie and ride you bicycle go look fuh gyals. Nobady bin baddah you.

From the info provided by Gianna man, he departs the shores before the 80s. 

FM
Iguana posted:
Gilbakka posted:

Socialists are students of history. Gilly is a student of Guyanese history and world history. I would be dishonest to assert that Guyana's Golden Age occurred during the past 67 years, ie during my lifetime. I lived only 15 years under colonialism, from 1951 to 1966. Nothing golden there. I read intensively and extensively every day and derive my knowledge & opinions therefrom. 

Gilly, these socialists who yuh seh are students of history should have learnt by now that dis "socialism" ting doan wuk. Stop trying it! It bruk up plenty countries!

Thanks for your advice, brother (no comrade?!).

Socialism has variants. One size doesn't fit all. I tried the pro-Soviet Stalinist variant favoured by comrade Cheddi but that didn't work. I'm on another variant now. As a poor former wage earner now pensioner, I cannot support capitalism which puts profits at the expense of workers.

FM
Iguana posted:
Leonora posted:

Guyana's Golden Age was during the colonial era.....

Iguana posted:

I will limit my comments to Georgetown, I cannot speak for the rural areas...  

I didn't live long in Guyana but the times I visited G'town during those days are still vivid in my mind. I remember everything you mention.

New Amsterdam, Rosehall, Albion, and other major cities and towns were prosperous and popular. The countryside was well-kept because of strict law and order maintained by the Village Offices. Men were employed to dig fish ponds, and clean the streets and drains, which they took seriously.

My village was PPP and had mostly rich rice planters. Foreigners studied the village because we fed Guyanese and helped in rice export; then they and others wrote articles and a book. I visited a few times between 1982-2007: the village looked better than the present G'town; it was so unrecognizable that I passed it then told the driver to turn back.

I hope the lady helps to bring back some of Guyana's glory days.  

FM
Iguana posted:
Leonora posted:

Guyana's Golden Age was during the colonial era. I've read numerous books, articles, world reports, etc. about your first paragraph. I was a little gal in Primary School when Sir David Rose visited my village. We were asked to write an essay about his visit, mine was selected for the school magazine.

An American told me the British kept Guyana together. After the British departed, the Blacks and Indos have been fighting as to who should rule who.

I will limit my comments to Georgetown, I cannot speak for the rural areas. Yes, there was a "golden" age there complete with elitists of both races - the Kissoons and other wealthy Indian businessmen and black/red people filling the upper ranks of the civil service and other professional positions.

But ordinary folks moved up too, into a middle class, for example, many bought cars for the first time. This growth in the middle class which began under colonialsims lasted through independence and into the 70's, even though the political and other systems all around were gradually being eroded. Eventually this erosion affected the growth of the middle class.

Growing up as a child I remember the events my parents would attend at Tower Hotel etc. In those days Tower, Pegasus, Palm Court, Park Hotel were places of sophistication. Company and other events. Saturday night the "elite" would gather. For the  upper middle class, Saturday night poolside at the Pegasus with a group like Tradewinds playing late into the night. Similar at other venues.

No wine and guh down and Rum 'til I die culture. Georgetown was clean. The parapets were cut every Friday. "Gutter man" came and cleaned gutters after the grass was cut. Garbage pickup by a truck with men who had a big basket and pitchforks, came into your yard and pulled out the contents of your garbage can. Georgetown was beautiful, greenery abounded, the Botanical and Promenade gardens filled with flowers. The Avenue on Main Street, quiet for walking.

Then you had areas like Prashad Nagar, Bel Air, Subryanville, etc. that looked like the American suburbs. Big homes, hardly saw anyone while driving thru.

Stores like Bookers, Fogartys, Bettencourts were a joy to walk thru. Evenings people would go "window shopping". Regent street had its own set of stores run by middle class Indians. They sold everything. Also had places like JP Santos. Buy your car at Sandbach Parker.

Much more, too much to write. Of course there was the occasional "choke and rob". DV cases. etc. But a golden era gone. If the young lady wants to bring something "back" then she should know what used to be there.

 

Those were good memories, swimming in Luckoo Pool and the Police band at the Bandstand. With all the oil money, can't buy back those days.

K
VishMahabir posted:
Leonora posted:
Iguana posted:
VishMahabir posted:

Golden days are generally associated with long period of enhanced economic activity, peace, era of good feeling, good life, etc...

...some might refer to such times as Pax Mongolica, Pax Romana, the Golden Age of Islam, etc...

..so when exactly would you folks consider as the "Golden days" in Guyana?  before independence, the 1970s, 1992, .....?  

And, what exactly was "golden" about that specific age....everything I have been reading about Guyana so far seems to me like God Grew Tired of this Place...it has been rocky since the white man left....am I wrong?

jes asking.

Best time in Guyana was colonial days. GT was known as the Garden City. Guyana as the breadbasket of the Caribbean. Exchange rate was 2 Gy dollars gets you 1 USD. Better quality of people (brain drain means only Nehrus are left there now). Modern society in GT, cricketers and other foreigners raved about the place. And this is with the racial disturbance of the 60's.

Carib will disagree. He says he didn't like to be told what to do. No one is telling him what to do now, but now there is nothing to do. He says he didn't have freedom of choice and opportunity back then. Today he has freedom of choice but there is nothing to choose and no opportunity for anyone. Suh tek yuh pick.

Most of the enjoyable stuff these old timers write about here were during colonial days and up to mid 70's when they whole place went down the toilet. Burnham in charge, Cheddi smiling and nodding wid he "critical support" in the late 70's early 80's I think. We were "gifted" with this commie idiot Cheddi and the "smart" megalomaniac Forbes. Doomed to failure!

Then came death squads. Black men executed. Drug cartels. Drug Lords. Ordinary people strung out on drugs and an explosion of crime to support they habit. Indian "elite" class. That was under Rat Man.

Just watch how they gon respond. When Gilbakka read dis he gon put on he shut jack and camouflage cap fuh talk like Fidel about how great post colonial days was in de emerging "socialist" guyana. And Carib gon deh next to he. One black, one Indian cussing meh. Dat's how yuh gon kno ah right.

Guyana's Golden Age was during the colonial era. I've read numerous books, articles, world reports, etc. about your first paragraph. I was a little gal in Primary School when Sir David Rose visited my village. We were asked to write an essay about his visit, mine was selected for the school magazine.

An American told me the British kept Guyana together. After the British departed, the Blacks and Indos have been fighting as to who should rule who.

Dem still fighting, more so on GNI...2 generations later, after the white man gave up and left....  

The fighting will continue as long as everything is judged by race and not by merit or logic.

GTAngler
skeldon_man posted

Abie kuntry folks use to tek abie cast nets and go ketch hassa, patwa and houri. And when bandin open, we use to go get up early mannin and get deh before sun come up. No big city stores, no dress up. Go watch wan movie and ride you bicycle go look fuh gyals. Nobady bin baddah you.

So I've heard. Went to school with some guys from the countryside. Different lifestyles, but all in all a simpler life all around. In fairness, life has become more complicated world wide, not just in Guyana.

FM
kp posted:

Those were good memories, swimming in Luckoo Pool and the Police band at the Bandstand. With all the oil money, can't buy back those days.

Yes, that whole seawall area was the place for a lot of families and people in the evening, especially Saturday afternoon / evening. It was the police band I think that played at the bandstand, impeccably decked out in their uniforms. I think it was white shirts, black pants, and some red sashes or on the hats etc.

Luckhoo pool for an afternoon swim. Don't even know if it is still there. Of course at Easter the sky would be dotted with kites. I remember flying kite with my father by Luckhoo pool. 

FM
Gilbakka posted:

Thanks for your advice, brother (no comrade?!).

Socialism has variants. One size doesn't fit all. I tried the pro-Soviet Stalinist variant favoured by comrade Cheddi but that didn't work. I'm on another variant now. As a poor former wage earner now pensioner, I cannot support capitalism which puts profits at the expense of workers.

"Comrade" Gill, life too short to find all dem variants. Guh wid what wukking bai. Profits at the expense of workers - maybe. But at least there is work where a man can earn a living, have some dignity, and tek care of he family.

How much wuk in Venezuela? Cuba? None. Men reduced to beggars and slaves, their women to whores to put some food on the table, while Maduro and Castro livin' high. We saw this in Guyana too. Alyuh "revolutionaries" kyan keep dat bai. I ain't able wid you and yuh "variants". All dem "variants" duz produce "vagrants".

FM
Nehru posted:

I wish her well also BUT when you have the incompetent, DUMB PNC in Govt everything turns to FILTH!!`1

Correct Nehru.

Best wishes to the young lady on her visions.

It is a daunting task against the large majority of the council members.

FM
Leonora posted:

I didn't live long in Guyana but the times I visited G'town during those days are still vivid in my mind. I remember everything you mention.

New Amsterdam, Rosehall, Albion, and other major cities and towns were prosperous and popular. The countryside was well-kept because of strict law and order maintained by the Village Offices. Men were employed to dig fish ponds, and clean the streets and drains, which they took seriously.

My village was PPP and had mostly rich rice planters. Foreigners studied the village because we fed Guyanese and helped in rice export; then they and others wrote articles and a book. I visited a few times between 1982-2007: the village looked better than the present G'town; it was so unrecognizable that I passed it then told the driver to turn back.

I hope the lady helps to bring back some of Guyana's glory days.  

Yet there are those ignorant, cave dwelling homos whose goal in life was to get humped by other men aback the cinema in Enterprise, sehing that 1992 to 2014 was the golden years.

That's what is left in Guyana now. No "glory days" coming back. The people who brought that about are no longer there. The entire culture has changed. All you have left now is "wine and guh down", drunkenness and drugs and drug addicts.

FM
Nehru posted:

I wish her well also BUT when you have the incompetent, DUMB PNC in Govt everything turns to FILTH!!`1

Stay away from Georgetown! Last thing it needs is a nasty, diseased, drunken kangalang like you vomiting, shitting, polluting and increasing disease in its environs. Yuh wuz visiting Guyana fuh 23 years under the PPP and it still tun into a shithole.

FM
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Iguana posted:
kp posted:

Those were good memories, swimming in Luckoo Pool and the Police band at the Bandstand. With all the oil money, can't buy back those days.

Yes, that whole seawall area was the place for a lot of families and people in the evening, especially Saturday afternoon / evening. It was the police band I think that played at the bandstand, impeccably decked out in their uniforms. I think it was white shirts, black pants, and some red sashes or on the hats etc.

Luckhoo pool for an afternoon swim. Don't even know if it is still there. Of course at Easter the sky would be dotted with kites. I remember flying kite with my father by Luckhoo pool. 

Today, no more Luckhoo pool. 

Today is much different, people go to the creek up the highway and make a mess of the environment with plastic bottles and food boxes, no sense of environmental awareness. This is why I don't believe that you will see the golden age of an environmentally clean GT anytime in the future. A person would buy food and drink and discard the containers on the road corner without even feeling guilty. The public just don't see it as a priority to keep the nation's recreational areas clean. Hopefully the youths will rise up and change this if there is an agenda in the schools to bring awareness like it is in the US and CA. 

FM
Drugb posted:
Iguana posted:
kp posted:

Those were good memories, swimming in Luckoo Pool and the Police band at the Bandstand. With all the oil money, can't buy back those days.

Yes, that whole seawall area was the place for a lot of families and people in the evening, especially Saturday afternoon / evening. It was the police band I think that played at the bandstand, impeccably decked out in their uniforms. I think it was white shirts, black pants, and some red sashes or on the hats etc.

Luckhoo pool for an afternoon swim. Don't even know if it is still there. Of course at Easter the sky would be dotted with kites. I remember flying kite with my father by Luckhoo pool. 

Today, no more Luckhoo pool. 

Today is much different, people go to the creek up the highway and make a mess of the environment with plastic bottles and food boxes, no sense of environmental awareness. This is why I don't believe that you will see the golden age of an environmentally clean GT anytime in the future. A person would buy food and drink and discard the containers on the road corner without even feeling guilty. The public just don't see it as a priority to keep the nation's recreational areas clean. Hopefully the youths will rise up and change this if there is an agenda in the schools to bring awareness like it is in the US and CA. 

The Luckhoo pool people and the creek people were two different types. Nuff people got their own pools, so Luckhoo ain't the big pull. 

And true, the environment is bad, nuff nuff nuff raw shit dumped in the Demerara.  Man cannot even take a dip these day without hitting shit! 

Guyanese lawliss and dutty!

Baseman
Drugb posted:
Iguana posted:
kp posted:

Those were good memories, swimming in Luckoo Pool and the Police band at the Bandstand. With all the oil money, can't buy back those days.

Yes, that whole seawall area was the place for a lot of families and people in the evening, especially Saturday afternoon / evening. It was the police band I think that played at the bandstand, impeccably decked out in their uniforms. I think it was white shirts, black pants, and some red sashes or on the hats etc.

Luckhoo pool for an afternoon swim. Don't even know if it is still there. Of course at Easter the sky would be dotted with kites. I remember flying kite with my father by Luckhoo pool. 

Today, no more Luckhoo pool. 

Today is much different, people go to the creek up the highway and make a mess of the environment with plastic bottles and food boxes, no sense of environmental awareness. This is why I don't believe that you will see the golden age of an environmentally clean GT anytime in the future. A person would buy food and drink and discard the containers on the road corner without even feeling guilty. The public just don't see it as a priority to keep the nation's recreational areas clean. Hopefully the youths will rise up and change this if there is an agenda in the schools to bring awareness like it is in the US and CA. 

I think the new mayor should visit the abbatoirs in GT to make sure they are sanitary and efficient. Georgetown has a small meat industry that can grow and create not only more jobs but bring in much needed revenues for City Hall. 

Billy Ram Balgobin
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

I think the new mayor should visit the abbatoirs in GT to make sure they are sanitary and efficient. Georgetown has a small meat industry that can grow and create not only more jobs but bring in much needed revenues for City Hall. 

Banna guh tek yuh Geritol and Sanatogen and guh sleep. Wid all de filthy shit in GT in plain sight yuh worried about de Abbatoir and "meat industry". Idiot.

FM
Baseman posted:
Drugb posted:
Iguana posted:
kp posted:

Those were good memories, swimming in Luckoo Pool and the Police band at the Bandstand. With all the oil money, can't buy back those days.

Yes, that whole seawall area was the place for a lot of families and people in the evening, especially Saturday afternoon / evening. It was the police band I think that played at the bandstand, impeccably decked out in their uniforms. I think it was white shirts, black pants, and some red sashes or on the hats etc.

Luckhoo pool for an afternoon swim. Don't even know if it is still there. Of course at Easter the sky would be dotted with kites. I remember flying kite with my father by Luckhoo pool. 

Today, no more Luckhoo pool. 

Today is much different, people go to the creek up the highway and make a mess of the environment with plastic bottles and food boxes, no sense of environmental awareness. This is why I don't believe that you will see the golden age of an environmentally clean GT anytime in the future. A person would buy food and drink and discard the containers on the road corner without even feeling guilty. The public just don't see it as a priority to keep the nation's recreational areas clean. Hopefully the youths will rise up and change this if there is an agenda in the schools to bring awareness like it is in the US and CA. 

The Luckhoo pool people and the creek people were two different types. Nuff people got their own pools, so Luckhoo ain't the big pull. 

And true, the environment is bad, nuff nuff nuff raw shit dumped in the Demerara.  Man cannot even take a dip these day without hitting shit! 

Guyanese lawliss and dutty!

They don't need government to tell them to clean their place up. In the old days people swept their yard and cleaned their surroundings. No one was throwing shit in the canals and trenches. Personal responsibility. This is what happens when you have a country full of Nehrus running around. Shit and filth dominates.

FM
Iguana posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

I think the new mayor should visit the abbatoirs in GT to make sure they are sanitary and efficient. Georgetown has a small meat industry that can grow and create not only more jobs but bring in much needed revenues for City Hall. 

Banna guh tek yuh Geritol and Sanatogen and guh sleep. Wid all de filthy shit in GT in plain sight yuh worried about de Abbatoir and "meat industry". Idiot.

That's an insult to the people of GT who are mostly of African descent. 

Billy Ram Balgobin
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
Iguana posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

I think the new mayor should visit the abbatoirs in GT to make sure they are sanitary and efficient. Georgetown has a small meat industry that can grow and create not only more jobs but bring in much needed revenues for City Hall. 

Banna guh tek yuh Geritol and Sanatogen and guh sleep. Wid all de filthy shit in GT in plain sight yuh worried about de Abbatoir and "meat industry". Idiot.

That's an insult to the people of GT who are mostly of African descent. 

Don't drag race into it dunce! Quit while you're ahead before ah send yuh mad and yuh start looking fuh somebody to bugger like last time den got to "apologize" like Volda.

FM

Dis is such an entertaining place, wid all dem spin dacta hea. Dem bhai make up story, jus to make up story.

Me glad me na get expensive cable TV. But me have to be careful, nat to spill me wine pan de keyboard while lafin.       

Tola
Iguana posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
Iguana posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

I think the new mayor should visit the abbatoirs in GT to make sure they are sanitary and efficient. Georgetown has a small meat industry that can grow and create not only more jobs but bring in much needed revenues for City Hall. 

Banna guh tek yuh Geritol and Sanatogen and guh sleep. Wid all de filthy shit in GT in plain sight yuh worried about de Abbatoir and "meat industry". Idiot.

That's an insult to the people of GT who are mostly of African descent. 

Don't drag race into it dunce! Quit while you're ahead before ah send yuh mad and yuh start looking fuh somebody to bugger like last time den got to "apologize" like Volda.

You should quit bending over while you are ahead or else Volda might take advantage of you by giving you a lady buggering as your reward for your anti_coolie stance on GNI

Billy Ram Balgobin
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

You should quit bending over while you are ahead or else Volda might take advantage of you by giving you a lady buggering as your reward for your anti_coolie stance on GNI

I know yuh couldn't wait to return to the gutter from whence yuh come. Ah warn yuh dat yuh going deh and to quit while yuh ahead. Now guh bring dem grandkids and show dem yuh proud literary piece dat yuh write up deh. Gwan suh wid yuh ole, haggard, dutty self! Just anodda indo KKK fa.gg.ot wid fantasies of black man.

FM
Iguana posted:
They don't need government to tell them to clean their place up. In the old days people swept their yard and cleaned their surroundings. No one was throwing shit in the canals and trenches. Personal responsibility. This is what happens when you have a country full of Nehrus running around. Shit and filth dominates.

In the countryside, folks burned their garbage in the backyard every weekend. No one had an unkempt yard because he/she feared mockery from fellow villagers! 

FM
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Leonora posted:
Iguana posted:
They don't need government to tell them to clean their place up. In the old days people swept their yard and cleaned their surroundings. No one was throwing shit in the canals and trenches. Personal responsibility. This is what happens when you have a country full of Nehrus running around. Shit and filth dominates.

In the countryside, folks burned their garbage in the backyard every weekend. No one had an unkempt yard because he/she feared mockery from fellow villagers! 

No one cares any more,the place is unkempt,new generation take over.

Django

Problem today, too much non-degradable junk, cans, plastic bottles, etc.  When I was with AFC I had proposed doing what they do in Mumbai to get rid of the inorganic non degradable waste.  This helps with clogged drains and flooding. 

Baseman
Django posted:
Leonora posted:
Iguana posted:
They don't need government to tell them to clean their place up. In the old days people swept their yard and cleaned their surroundings. No one was throwing shit in the canals and trenches. Personal responsibility. This is what happens when you have a country full of Nehrus running around. Shit and filth dominates.

In the countryside, folks burned their garbage in the backyard every weekend. No one had an unkempt yard because he/she feared mockery from fellow villagers! 

No one cares any more,the place is unkempt,new generation take over.

Not true.  You lie!

Baseman
Baseman posted:

Problem today, too much non-degradable junk, cans, plastic bottles, etc.  When I was with AFC I had proposed doing what they do in Mumbai to get rid of the inorganic non degradable waste.  This helps with clogged drains and flooding. 

Black plastic bags all over the trenches and drains. The Corriverton market sideline is a sight to scorn.

FM
Baseman posted:
Django posted:
Leonora posted:
Iguana posted:
They don't need government to tell them to clean their place up. In the old days people swept their yard and cleaned their surroundings. No one was throwing shit in the canals and trenches. Personal responsibility. This is what happens when you have a country full of Nehrus running around. Shit and filth dominates.

In the countryside, folks burned their garbage in the backyard every weekend. No one had an unkempt yard because he/she feared mockery from fellow villagers! 

No one cares any more,the place is unkempt,new generation take over.

Not true.  You lie!

Bhai, when i was there saw it in the neighborhood,asked my neighbor what happened, his words no "one cares" .Behind my mom residence is a sideline, always clean, the neighbor said "look at the sideline dead donkey floating". Growing up we used to bathe and swim in it.

Django
Django posted:
Baseman posted:
Django posted:
Leonora posted:
Iguana posted:
They don't need government to tell them to clean their place up. In the old days people swept their yard and cleaned their surroundings. No one was throwing shit in the canals and trenches. Personal responsibility. This is what happens when you have a country full of Nehrus running around. Shit and filth dominates.

In the countryside, folks burned their garbage in the backyard every weekend. No one had an unkempt yard because he/she feared mockery from fellow villagers! 

No one cares any more,the place is unkempt,new generation take over.

Not true.  You lie!

Bhai, when i was there saw it in the neighborhood,asked my neighbor what happened, his words no "one cares" .Behind my mom residence is a sideline, always clean, the neighbor said "look at the sideline dead donkey floating". Growing up we used to bathe and swim in it.

Very true. They throw plastic anywhere and everywhere. Dead animals(dogs, cats, donkeys etc.) are left on the streets to rot.

FM
skeldon_man posted:
Very true. They throw plastic anywhere and everywhere. Dead animals(dogs, cats, donkeys etc.) are left on the streets to rot.

They should be whipped with a cat o' 9 tails. The older folks should teach the new generation.  

FM
Leonora posted:
skeldon_man posted:
Very true. They throw plastic anywhere and everywhere. Dead animals(dogs, cats, donkeys etc.) are left on the streets to rot.

They should be whipped with a cat o' 9 tails. The older folks should teach the new generation.  

I saw a few people who are friends of the mayor dumping bags of garbage by the sideline dam. They get up early and do the dumping when it is still dark. This past year when I was there, I asked the mayor what was happening. He said you have to catch them dumping. He said they are just people who do not want to pay $200.00 every two weeks to collect their garbage.

FM
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skeldon_man posted:
Leonora posted:
skeldon_man posted:
Very true. They throw plastic anywhere and everywhere. Dead animals(dogs, cats, donkeys etc.) are left on the streets to rot.

They should be whipped with a cat o' 9 tails. The older folks should teach the new generation.  

I saw a few people who are friends of the mayor dumping bags of garbage by the sideline dam. They get up early and do the dumping when it is still dark. This past year when I was there, I asked the mayor what was happening. He said you have to catch them dumping. He said they are just people who do not want to pay $200.00 every two weeks to collect their garbage.

They need garbage police like in NY!

Baseman
alena06 posted:

Most of GT is a dump, she has some big tasks ahead.  Get the prisoners to clean up the city and save costs. Stabroek market is the biggest dump and stinkiest.

Mi aunty seh dem bin start good good, Granger get all dem faithful hungry belly from Sophia backdam to clean up GT in 2015.  Den dem gi demself big big salary increase and leff dem guttah cleanazz with white mouth.  Suh dem get vex and gone back Sophia backdam and leff di shit to pile up!

Ah suh mi aunty seh!

Baseman
Baseman posted:
alena06 posted:

Most of GT is a dump, she has some big tasks ahead.  Get the prisoners to clean up the city and save costs. Stabroek market is the biggest dump and stinkiest.

Mi aunty seh dem bin start good good, Granger get all dem faithful hungry belly from Sophia backdam to clean up GT in 2015.  Den dem gi demself big big salary increase and leff dem guttah cleanazz with white mouth.  Suh dem get vex and gone back Sophia backdam and leff di shit to pile up!

Ah suh mi aunty seh!

Your auntie is right.  Black men and women were cleaning the drains and trenches throughout the country in support of the new government.  Enthusiasm quickly waned as they saw the selfishness of the ruling elite.

Billy Ram Balgobin
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Nehru posted:

Just like at Hope Estate in the days. Some people get pleasure from punishment/enslavement!!!

Hope Estate days - Is that how you got your lil "civil servant" wuk that you used to exploit yuh mattie? By licking burnham boots as he rode by and drop 2 lash pon yuh Dalit, likka loving ass?

FM
Nehru posted:

Boots licking and ass kissing certificates are your only accomplishments

Sounds mo like yuh daily duties at YAWK! Anodda one who gat KKK feelings about black man and get weh he deh compliments of black man opening de door fuh he. Sick sons of bit.ches.

FM

I hope admin is observing some of the "Sick sons of bit.ches", "Dalit, likka loving ass", "Just anodda indo KKK fa.gg.ot wid fantasies of black man". Nehru got suspended for calling someone a prick.

FM
Iguana posted:
Nehru posted:

I wish her well also BUT when you have the incompetent, DUMB PNC in Govt everything turns to FILTH!!`1

Stay away from Georgetown! Last thing it needs is a nasty, diseased, drunken kangalang like you vomiting, shitting, polluting and increasing disease in its environs. Yuh wuz visiting Guyana fuh 23 years under the PPP and it still tun into a shithole.

RAW SEWAGE WILL FETCH A MUCH HIGHER PRICE THAN A PIECE OF SHIT LIKE YOU. THANK GOD I DO NOT HAVE SMELLOVISION TO SMELL THE STENCH, ABSOLUTE STENCH COMING FROM YOU!!!

Nehru
Nehru posted:

RAW SEWAGE WILL FETCH A MUCH HIGHER PRICE THAN A PIECE OF SHIT LIKE YOU.

...such deep, deep, DEEP, intellectual thought. And you keeping track of the "price" of "raw sewage". priceless. LMAO.

FM

I know members sometimes take a stab at each other oftentimes in fun and good humor. But bai, some a y'all does lose alyuh  cool at the drop of a hat. so much pent up  rage. Good luck.

Sheik101

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

HJ

Listen. I read through the entire posts and did not see anyone saying anything negative about the young lady. 

Posters were expressing what they witnessed in Guyana and GT and that is the truth. 

Pleas don’t bring that BS attitude to GNI. 

The young lady has an uphill battle in a toxic political atmosphere in GT. She took the political torch and she has to carry it with strength and determination to achieve what she set out to accomplish. 

GNI is not residents of GT. 

FM
Hugh Jorgan posted:

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

After reading your last sentence, ah can't help but smile. And I'll leave it at that. But I hear yuh.

Sheik101
Sheik101 posted:

I know members sometimes take a stab at each other oftentimes in fun and good humor. But bai, some a y'all does lose alyuh  cool at the drop of a hat. so much pent up  rage. Good luck.

The next full moon is Dec. 22, so I don't know why all the fighting today. 

FM
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
Baseman posted:
alena06 posted:

Most of GT is a dump, she has some big tasks ahead.  Get the prisoners to clean up the city and save costs. Stabroek market is the biggest dump and stinkiest.

Mi aunty seh dem bin start good good, Granger get all dem faithful hungry belly from Sophia backdam to clean up GT in 2015.  Den dem gi demself big big salary increase and leff dem guttah cleanazz with white mouth.  Suh dem get vex and gone back Sophia backdam and leff di shit to pile up!

Ah suh mi aunty seh!

Your auntie is right.  Black men and women were cleaning the drains and trenches throughout the country in support of the new government.  Enthusiasm quickly waned as they saw the selfishness of the ruling elite.

Bai dah woman is 85, duh she is alwayzzz right!

Baseman
Hugh Jorgan posted:

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

The thinking of the Indians on GNI is endemic. This is what exists in Guyana. These like minded Indians in Guyana will actively work against this 19 year old Afro Guyanese girl to thwart any progress she can make! The excuse will be that she is "PNC", an euphemism for black people.

That is the sick place Guyana is and state of the DISEASED Indian people who hate black folks.

FM
Iguana posted:
Hugh Jorgan posted:

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

The thinking of the Indians on GNI is endemic. This is what exists in Guyana. These like minded Indians in Guyana will actively work against this 19 year old Afro Guyanese girl to thwart any progress she can make! The excuse will be that she is "PNC", an euphemism for black people.

That is the sick place Guyana is and state of the DISEASED Indian people who hate black folks.

Shut yuh rass. Many here wish her the best.   That is why there was so much discussion on the state of the city.  

As for hating blacks, stop with your mischievous nonsense.   True, many rail against anything PNC.  Look how Nagamootoo and Ramjattan are portrayed, look at the comments regarding Pandit Ubraj.  Yet some of these same posters wished the young lady well!

Baseman
Hugh Jorgan posted:

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

You funny!!

Baseman
Baseman posted:

Shut yuh rass. Many here wish her the best.   That is why there was so much discussion on the state of the city.  

As for hating blacks, stop with your mischievous nonsense.   True, many rail against anything PNC.  Look how Nagamootoo and Ramjattan are portrayed, look at the comments regarding Pandit Ubraj.  Yet some of these same posters wished the young lady well!

You and your Indian KKK clan hay (which is just about every Indian posting here with few exceptions) always "wishing the best". Your well wishes to any black person are suspect. NONE of you will be pleased if that young woman is successful in anything. You will live to condemn, criticize and villify her. After all, she is part of a group of people genetically prone to violence and according to you. Go wipe Yugi beetie. You and he is the same!

FM
Iguana posted:
Baseman posted:

Shut yuh rass. Many here wish her the best.   That is why there was so much discussion on the state of the city.  

As for hating blacks, stop with your mischievous nonsense.   True, many rail against anything PNC.  Look how Nagamootoo and Ramjattan are portrayed, look at the comments regarding Pandit Ubraj.  Yet some of these same posters wished the young lady well!

You and your Indian KKK clan hay (which is just about every Indian posting here with few exceptions) always "wishing the best". Your well wishes to any black person are suspect. NONE of you will be pleased if that young woman is successful in anything. You will live to condemn, criticize and villify her. After all, she is part of a group of people genetically prone to violence and according to you. Go wipe Yugi beetie. You and he is the same!

Shut you stupid rass.  I admire the young lady for her aspirations and hopes.  I have many relatives there who wants to stay there, so I want to see it peaceful and clean.  

As I said before, I wish her and Pandit Ubraj all the best.

Baseman
Baseman posted:
Hugh Jorgan posted:

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

You funny!!

Thanks. I'll be here all week.

HJ
Baseman posted:
Hugh Jorgan posted:

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

You funny!!

Thanks. I'll be here all week.

HJ
Hugh Jorgan posted:
Baseman posted:
Hugh Jorgan posted:

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

You funny!!

Thanks. I'll be here all week.

And good luck in your endeavors!

Baseman
Iguana posted:
Hugh Jorgan posted:

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

The thinking of the Indians on GNI is endemic. This is what exists in Guyana. These like minded Indians in Guyana will actively work against this 19 year old Afro Guyanese girl to thwart any progress she can make! The excuse will be that she is "PNC", an euphemism for black people.

That is the sick place Guyana is and state of the DISEASED Indian people who hate black folks.

Listen to yourself! Why you hate INDIANS so bad?

K
kp posted:
Iguana posted:
Hugh Jorgan posted:

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

The thinking of the Indians on GNI is endemic. This is what exists in Guyana. These like minded Indians in Guyana will actively work against this 19 year old Afro Guyanese girl to thwart any progress she can make! The excuse will be that she is "PNC", an euphemism for black people.

That is the sick place Guyana is and state of the DISEASED Indian people who hate black folks.

Listen to yourself! Why you hate INDIANS so bad?

I don't hate Indians. My remarks are made in vein with the Baseman thread at https://guyana.crowdstack.io/topic/b...titude-of-white-cops

The avid racism espoused there, where every black person is some sort of subhuman savage in keeping with KKK beliefs. According to Baseman, ALL black people. Violent. Africanized. In need of white cops to keep we in control. And all the Indians hay (except maybe for Djanjo, Dem Guy, Angler and Gilbakka) applauding and nodding head in agreement wid he.

I hate no Indian. But after what I see alyuh carrying on wid hay, I done. No more pleasantries, reminescing and all dat shit. Alyuh hate black man to the bone suh why bother attempting any kind of civility wid alyuh?

FM
Iguana posted:
kp posted:
Iguana posted:
Hugh Jorgan posted:

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

The thinking of the Indians on GNI is endemic. This is what exists in Guyana. These like minded Indians in Guyana will actively work against this 19 year old Afro Guyanese girl to thwart any progress she can make! The excuse will be that she is "PNC", an euphemism for black people.

That is the sick place Guyana is and state of the DISEASED Indian people who hate black folks.

Listen to yourself! Why you hate INDIANS so bad?

I don't hate Indians. My remarks are made in vein with the Baseman thread at https://guyana.crowdstack.io/topic/b...titude-of-white-cops

The avid racism espoused there, where every black person is some sort of subhuman savage in keeping with KKK beliefs. According to Baseman, ALL black people. Violent. Africanized. In need of white cops to keep we in control. And all the Indians hay (except maybe for Djanjo, Dem Guy, Angler and Gilbakka) applauding and nodding head in agreement wid he.

I hate no Indian. But after what I see alyuh carrying on wid hay, I done. No more pleasantries, reminescing and all dat shit. Alyuh hate black man to the bone suh why bother attempting any kind of civility wid alyuh?

You need to get over yourself.  Ayuh like manipulate and mek up stuff.  

Ronan the rodent is in a race to the bottom after his embarrassing Volda protection plan went belly up.  You deh right behind him heading for the rat hole.  But yuh tail too langg!

Baseman
Iguana posted:
kp posted:
Iguana posted:
Hugh Jorgan posted:

A 19 year old Afro-Guyanese girl has dreams and is optimistic and these are the reactions. I'll bet if she was Indo there would be tons of good lucks and well wishes because the "blackman" got GT the way it is. SMMFH. This is why I seldom post here.

The thinking of the Indians on GNI is endemic. This is what exists in Guyana. These like minded Indians in Guyana will actively work against this 19 year old Afro Guyanese girl to thwart any progress she can make! The excuse will be that she is "PNC", an euphemism for black people.

That is the sick place Guyana is and state of the DISEASED Indian people who hate black folks.

Listen to yourself! Why you hate INDIANS so bad?

I don't hate Indians. My remarks are made in vein with the Baseman thread at https://guyana.crowdstack.io/topic/b...titude-of-white-cops

The avid racism espoused there, where every black person is some sort of subhuman savage in keeping with KKK beliefs. According to Baseman, ALL black people. Violent. Africanized. In need of white cops to keep we in control. And all the Indians hay (except maybe for Djanjo, Dem Guy, Angler and Gilbakka) applauding and nodding head in agreement wid he.

I hate no Indian. But after what I see alyuh carrying on wid hay, I done. No more pleasantries, reminescing and all dat shit. Alyuh hate black man to the bone suh why bother attempting any kind of civility wid alyuh?

Why are you beating up Coolies?

FM
Nehru posted:

The only golden age Guyana had was from 1992 to 2014.!!!

 

If you mean the productive leeching era of the PPP you are right. Guyana has never seen anything but political blight. We are far from the promise of anything golden...by the way the PPP even let that be stolen...OMAI took out 2.5 billion oz and they never made a profit! I guess the PPP cut was too much for them to break even!

FM
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Iguana posted:
VishMahabir posted:

Golden days are generally associated with long period of enhanced economic activity, peace, era of good feeling, good life, etc...

...some might refer to such times as Pax Mongolica, Pax Romana, the Golden Age of Islam, etc...

..so when exactly would you folks consider as the "Golden days" in Guyana?  before independence, the 1970s, 1992, .....?  

And, what exactly was "golden" about that specific age....everything I have been reading about Guyana so far seems to me like God Grew Tired of this Place...it has been rocky since the white man left....am I wrong?

jes asking.

Best time in Guyana was colonial days. GT was known as the Garden City. Guyana as the breadbasket of the Caribbean. Exchange rate was 2 Gy dollars gets you 1 USD. Better quality of people (brain drain means only Nehrus are left there now). Modern society in GT, cricketers and other foreigners raved about the place. And this is with the racial disturbance of the 60's.

Carib will disagree. He says he didn't like to be told what to do. No one is telling him what to do now, but now there is nothing to do. He says he didn't have freedom of choice and opportunity back then. Today he has freedom of choice but there is nothing to choose and no opportunity for anyone. Suh tek yuh pick.

Most of the enjoyable stuff these old timers write about here were during colonial days and up to mid 70's when they whole place went down the toilet. Burnham in charge, Cheddi smiling and nodding wid he "critical support" in the late 70's early 80's I think. We were "gifted" with this commie idiot Cheddi and the "smart" megalomaniac Forbes. Doomed to failure!

Then came death squads. Black men executed. Drug cartels. Drug Lords. Ordinary people strung out on drugs and an explosion of crime to support they habit. Indian "elite" class. That was under Rat Man.

Just watch how they gon respond. When Gilbakka read dis he gon put on he shut jack and camouflage cap fuh talk like Fidel about how great post colonial days was in de emerging "socialist" guyana. And Carib gon deh next to he. One black, one Indian cussing meh. Dat's how yuh gon kno ah right.

GT may have been known as the Garden City but Guyana was never the bread basket of the Caribbean. This is historical fluff. The two for one exchange rate was based on British colonial valuation. It was artificially high because the Brits were barely breaking even and were eager to dump the entire lot of its subaltern hoards and their colonial asset into the independence waste basket. Their only attempt to keep it was through a British Federation and that could have worked but then we had the squabbling of the backward others.

Since then all we have had were governments of men without vision. We still do not have any or see any hope for any from among the ranks of the political class. Get it, no potential savior stands out from among our ranks. All we have are political ideologues and knee bending sycophants. 

 

FM
D2 posted:
Iguana posted:
VishMahabir posted:

Golden days are generally associated with long period of enhanced economic activity, peace, era of good feeling, good life, etc...

...some might refer to such times as Pax Mongolica, Pax Romana, the Golden Age of Islam, etc...

..so when exactly would you folks consider as the "Golden days" in Guyana?  before independence, the 1970s, 1992, .....?  

And, what exactly was "golden" about that specific age....everything I have been reading about Guyana so far seems to me like God Grew Tired of this Place...it has been rocky since the white man left....am I wrong?

jes asking.

Best time in Guyana was colonial days. GT was known as the Garden City. Guyana as the breadbasket of the Caribbean. Exchange rate was 2 Gy dollars gets you 1 USD. Better quality of people (brain drain means only Nehrus are left there now). Modern society in GT, cricketers and other foreigners raved about the place. And this is with the racial disturbance of the 60's.

Carib will disagree. He says he didn't like to be told what to do. No one is telling him what to do now, but now there is nothing to do. He says he didn't have freedom of choice and opportunity back then. Today he has freedom of choice but there is nothing to choose and no opportunity for anyone. Suh tek yuh pick.

Most of the enjoyable stuff these old timers write about here were during colonial days and up to mid 70's when they whole place went down the toilet. Burnham in charge, Cheddi smiling and nodding wid he "critical support" in the late 70's early 80's I think. We were "gifted" with this commie idiot Cheddi and the "smart" megalomaniac Forbes. Doomed to failure!

Then came death squads. Black men executed. Drug cartels. Drug Lords. Ordinary people strung out on drugs and an explosion of crime to support they habit. Indian "elite" class. That was under Rat Man.

Just watch how they gon respond. When Gilbakka read dis he gon put on he shut jack and camouflage cap fuh talk like Fidel about how great post colonial days was in de emerging "socialist" guyana. And Carib gon deh next to he. One black, one Indian cussing meh. Dat's how yuh gon kno ah right.

GT may have been known as the Garden City but Guyana was never the bread basket of the Caribbean. This is historical fluff. The two for one exchange rate was based on British colonial valuation. It was artificially high because the Brits were barely breaking even and were eager to dump the entire lot of its subaltern hoards and their colonial asset into the independence waste basket. Their only attempt to keep it was through a British Federation and that could have worked but then we had the squabbling of the backward others.

Since then all we have had were governments of men without vision. We still do not have any or see any hope for any from among the ranks of the political class. Get it, no potential savior stands out from among our ranks. All we have are political ideologues and knee bending sycophants. 

 

Madness is gladness. Ah man talking to heself.

FM
Baseman posted: 

Ronan the rodent is in a race to the bottom after his embarrassing Volda protection plan went belly up. 

i deh pan yuh mind nah . . . how does it feel wandering around GNI with no buckta?

https://guyana.crowdstack.io/topic/b...titude-of-white-cops

FM
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ronan posted:
Baseman posted: 

Ronan the rodent is in a race to the bottom after his embarrassing Volda protection plan went belly up. 

i deh pan yuh mind nah . . . how does it feel wandering around GNI with no buckta?

https://guyana.crowdstack.io/topic/b...titude-of-white-cops

you deh pan he mind and the cow shit eating holy man wishing me death and destruction. LOL. Den he seh is he "keyboard" talking. The most congenital racist philanthropist is controlled by he "keyboard", which types all he racist shit fuh he. LOL

FM

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