thanks God our ancestors made that trip

On this day we must pay tribute to all those who crossed the kala pani and those who suffered at Wismar, Buxton, Agricolla and elsewhere!!  BHARAT MATA KI JAI!!!!

Reza, I thought the date was May 5.

Djanjo, Happy Aniversary to you . I am sure you are proud of your great grand parents from India . 

Please correct me if their birth country is not India RK😊

https://youtu.be/Ss-kLGW2pHQ

I have visited India. I thank God for the day he allowed my ancestors to leave India. That's a blessed day! 

The PNC boys are working hard to restore the Monument at Palmyra before Modi arrives.

Govt. targets Palmyra monument completion for yearend Modi visit

Several ministers of the government on Sunday paid a visit to the site where the Indian Arrival Day monument collapsed last year, at Palmyra, Berbice.
The team which included the Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, Minister of Social Cohesion, George Norton, Indian High Commission officials and regional officials, inspected the site and discussed the way forward. During the discussion, a representative from the Indian High Commission stated that the design was “very nice” but the basic soil testing should have been done before construction commenced.
The monument collapsed during its construction stage in April 2017 when the foundation weakened, causing the cylindrical structure to crumble to the ground.
Minister Trotman explained that it was during a visit to India in February 2018, alongside the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the matter was raised by the foreign Minister of India and the government of India.
“We committed to have this monument completed, and in February the government of India offered to have an engineer, architect and sculptor assigned to the project”, Minister Trotman noted.
He also highlighted that a visit was made to the actual monument that is being kept at the National Stadium, on Saturday.
Trotman announced that the government is hoping for the monument to be completed by the end of 2018 or even an “almost complete” monument, since the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, is expected to Guyana during that time.
A cooperation agreement that was signed between the governments of Guyana and India has since been enforced and now being “accepted and activated”, according to the Minister of Public Infrastructure.
Minister Patterson said that the contract and design of the monument was done under the previous government, “all these things were done under Frank (Anthony) so it was just continued. It was at a point when the government changed, so the handing over process was ensued and we don’t know if they had these soil tests done”.
According to the Infrastructure Minister, an engineer was hired by the then-Culture, Youth and Sport Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony, and the project was designed by him.

The Indian Arrival Day monument site at Palmyra in its current state

“When the government changed we took the designs they had.”
He further posited that “.additional groundwork consisting of geotechnical studies (soil test) were executed and revealed that the land on which the monument is earmarked to be completed is on “pagasse, which is old canefield swamp land”.
Patterson added that, the statue itself weighs a whopping 17 tons, “which is quite heavy to put on a swamp area”. While expressing his concerns, he also mentioned that they are currently waiting on the government of India to get things back on track, since all of the necessary documentation that was requested by the Indian government was sent to them, inclusive of the results of the soil test.
Additionally, the Public Infrastructure Minister stressed that it is unfortunate that the monument could not be completed for the upcoming Indian Arrival Day activities on May 5th.
“One of the reasons for coming here is so that we can put a realistic timeline as to when it can be finished. It wouldn’t be available for Arrival Day, but obviously we are working to get the next most significant day between the Government of India and the Government of Guyana,” Patterson assured.
After the unexpected collapse of the base of the monument, Cabinet had made the decision that the Ministry of Public Infrastructure would assume responsibility for oversight of the project.
It was disclosed that the construction of the base represented Phase 2 of the project.
Phase 1 was the construction of the access road – approximately 60 per cent of which has been completed to date by the contractor for this phase – Civil Engineering Works (CEW).
Phase 3 concerned landscaping but works were suspended. BK International was contracted for Phase 3.
It was found that in Phase 1, the budgeted amount was for $43,027,544
The second phase, contracted to Alternate Contracting Enterprise (ACE), was for a budgeted $42,232,239. Only $22,803,000 was paid out.
The internal monument base was to have been an eight-inch thick reinforced concrete wall and not block work in-filled with mortar.

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Nehru posted:

Reza, I thought the date was May 5.

I thought so too.

Nehru posted:

Reza, I thought the date was May 5.

 

Nehru posted:

Reza, I thought the date was May 5.

Oh lord.. politician misleading we and so is GNI members . 

Dave posted:

Nehru posted:

Reza, I thought the date was May 5.

 

Nehru posted:

Reza, I thought the date was May 5.

Oh lord.. politician misleading we and so is GNI members . 

I thought it was May 5, 1838.

skeldon_man posted:

Dave posted:

Nehru posted:

Reza, I thought the date was May 5.

 

Nehru posted:

Reza, I thought the date was May 5.

Oh lord.. politician misleading we and so is GNI members . 

I thought it was May 5, 1838.

Your date is correct Skelly

Today is Labor Day in Guyana

Dave posted:

skeldon_man posted:

Dave posted:

Nehru posted:

Reza, I thought the date was May 5.

 

Nehru posted:

Reza, I thought the date was May 5.

Oh lord.. politician misleading we and so is GNI members . 

I thought it was May 5, 1838.

Your date is correct Skelly

This bwoy Reza prappa sharp!  He early.

Amral posted:

Today is Labor Day in Guyana

Since 2015 is more like Slavery Day in Guyana!!  The GADAHA and Namakaram Crabdaag DO NOT respect labor Laws!!!!!!!!!!

Whitby and Hesperus arrived on May 5....i thought the arrival was at Highbury, located somewhere in Berbice....so why they building this monument at another location???

VishMahabir posted:

Whitby and Hesperus arrived on May 5....i thought the arrival was at Highbury, located somewhere in Berbice....so why they building this monument at another location???

Strange. They already have some sort of a site at Highbury down the Berbice River. There were several gatherings already at that site.

The Whitby arrived at the Demerara River, however there were no agent available to unload immigrants for the Demerara Estates. So, anchor was lifted and sailed for Highbury and Waterloo Estates down in Berbice. I believe Waterloo, later became Bath Estate. Highbury down the Berbice River. 

Riff posted:

thanks God our ancestors made that trip

...and a riffraff is now a hotshot Valley Stream Salesman, and Admin. of an internet site with powers to suspend and ban. 

it's a gorgeous Spring day and I just took a break from a huge medical meeting with international panelists.  A South African doc. told me her grandparents migrated from Uttar Pradesh and that lots of good came from that journey.

Riff is the Raff.

BHARAT MATA KI JAI!!!  The Culture, Civility, Humanity, Compassion and Care they brought made us all BETTER Humans. I thank my Ancestors  for those traits!!!

The descendants of our ancestors are uninterested to know the historic significance of their roots from the suffering and sacrifice endured from months of traveling over dangerous waters to give birth to neemakaram sons and daughters who only remembers the satanic verses of Jagdeo Mata-Ki-Jai and Aap-an-Jaat.  

Nehru posted:

Reza, I thought the date was May 5.

It is May 5th.  However, I am an early bird.  The Mexicans, in Los Angeles, are already gearing up for Cinco de Mayo.  So, a few day early doesn't hurt.  In the coming days, I hope to do some follow up on this story.  

What is there to follow up, it aint something new?

Dave posted:

Djanjo, Happy Aniversary to you . I am sure you are proud of your great grand parents from India . 

Please correct me if their birth country is not India RK😊

Somewhere in India. Don't know exactly where.  My great grandmother, I heard, was from Kashmir.