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Breaking news
Today's stabroeknews reported that guyana's most wanted fineman and skinny was killed by the joint foreces on the linden soesdyke linden highway. if this is true congrats to the joint forces.
By amen-ra-ta
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Breaking News
It has been reported that guyana's most wanted criminal fineman and skinny has been killed by the joint force on the linden soesdyke highway today in a confrontation. If this is true i congragulate the joint force for a job well done, but only he should have been brought in alive so we can know who his connections were. I guess dead men tell no tales.
By amen-ra-ta
Thursday, August 28, 2008

IMPEACHABLE?????????
PRESS STATEMENT

By

Peoples National Congress Reform

Thursday 28 August 2008

Media Centre, Congress Place , Sophia

SUMMARY:

The delay in appointing a Commissioner of Police for more than two years, despite the deteriorating crime and security situation, including three massacres, at Lusignan, Bartica and Lindo Creek, could only be construed, at best, as gross misconduct, and, at worst, impeachable Presidential conduct;
It is appropriate to remind the Jagdeo Administration that torture is not only in violation of the Guyana Constitution but also of the various international agreements to which Guyana is a signatory, such as the UN and the OAS Conventions Against Torture;
The PNCR does not hesitate to reiterate its publicly stated demand, even at this late hour, for an independent inquiry into the torturing and killing of Edwin Niles;
President Jagdeo, at his recent Press Conference, virtually attacked the Auditor General for submitting an honest account of the financial statement of the country. This cannot go unanswered. In particular, the PNCR wishes to take issue with the Presidents notion that not placing the Lotto proceeds into the Consolidated Fund is a technical matter and not a violation of Article 216 of the Constitution.

THE NON APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONER OF POLICE BY THE PRESIDENT FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS IS GROSS MISCONDUCT:

President Jagdeos recent pronouncements, on the issue of the appointment of a substantive Commissioner of Police, revealed that he is obviously engaged in another of his political games to divert attention from either his Presidential incompetence, if not misconduct, or his lack of concern or seriousness over the security situation in the country.

After two years of neglecting his constitutional duty to appoint a Police Commissioner, he is now seeking to create a storm in a teacup over the insistence, by the Leader of the Opposition that he should observe the spirit and letter of the Constitution which he undertook to uphold when he took his oath of Office. President Jagdeo has not succeeded in fooling anyone. Instead, he has further entangled himself in the web of deceit that he is trying to weave.

The Kaieteur News, of 22 August 2008, under the caption, Corbin nitpicking over Greenes appointment, Jagdeo admitted that:

in his previous meeting with Corbin which was an exploratory meeting on the issue, the PNCR leader did not object to the appointment of Green as Commissioner of Police.

Jagdeo said that he does not need the approval of Corbin to appoint Green neither will he change his mind.

In the next sentence, the President converts the exploratory meeting into a consultation by suggesting that, there was no need for further consultations.

The Constitution clearly defines what is meant by consultation:

Title 10: Interpretation: Article 232 (1) states:

In this Constitution except as otherwise provided or required by the context-

consultation or meaningful consultation means the person or entity responsible for seeking consultation shall-

(a) Identify the persons or entities to be consulted and specify to them in writing the subject of the consultation and an intended date for the decision on the subject of consultation;

(b)Ensure that each person or entity to be consulted is afforded a reasonable opportunity to express a considered opinion on the subject of the consultation; and

(c)Cause to be prepared and archived a written record of the consultation and circulate the decision or entities consulted;

From the above, it is obvious that the President requires no legal expert to explain his obligations under the Constitution with respect to the requirement of consultation.

Article 211(1) of the Constitution states:

The Commissioner of Police and every Deputy Commissioner of Police shall be appointed by the President acting after meaningful consultations with the Leader of the Opposition and Chairperson of the Police Service Commission after the Chairperson has consulted with the other members of the Commission.

No one, including the President, can choose to ignore the requirements of the Constitution, as President Jagdeo so frequently does, at his whims and fancies. His non observation of the above requirements can only be interpreted in the context of his other flagrant violations in the past, including his appointment of the Integrity Commission without consultation and his extension of the life of the Ethnic Relations Commission in violation of the Constitution.

The facts of the matter are that, at the request of President Jagdeo, the Leader of the Opposition agreed to a meeting, on 17 June 2008, with him, at the Office of the President, New Garden Street , Georgetown . Mr. E Lance Carberry, MP, PNCRs Chief Whip and the Official Record Keeper on Consultation for the Leader of the Opposition, as is customary, accompanied Mr. Corbin. During that meeting, at which several matters of concern to the PNCR were raised, the President informally raised with the Leader of the Opposition his intention to appoint a substantive Commissioner of Police and indicated that his nominee was the incumbent, Acting Commissioner, Mr. Henry Greene.

The Leader of the Opposition pointed out to the President that, unlike the position of Chancellor, only consultation was required and not agreement for such an appointment. He sought clarification on some public concerns from the President. The President provided some explanations. Before the conclusion of that meeting, the President queried whether he could treat such informal conversation as a consultation.

The Leader of the Opposition was very specific, and this is recorded in the notes of that meeting, that he required the provisions of the Constitution to be strictly observed. He further explained his reasons, among them being, the failure of the President to follow those provisions when the Integrity Commission was appointed. He also reminded the President that the issue of the unconstitutionality of the Integrity Commission was still a matter awaiting the determination of the High Court.

The Leader of the Opposition made it clear, to the President, that he expected him to write formally as required by the Constitution.

It is, therefore, quite remarkable that the President could forget these discussions and choose to rely on his own, self serving recollections. Where is the Official record of the consultations as required by the Constitution, if, as the President claims, consultations were done? Has the President consulted the Chairman of the Police Service Commission and is the record of such consultation available? Has the Chairman of the Police Service Commission consulted the Police Service Commissioners and is such a record available?

It is instructive that the President considers the insistence of the Leader of the Opposition, on the strict observance of the Constitution, as nitpicking and playing petty politics.

It helps the Guyanese people to understand the mind-set of the President of Guyana and explains why there has been such scant regard for the laws of Guyana , by the Jagdeo regime. The Leader of the Opposition has made it pellucid, however, that he would not be a participant in any activity intended to disregard and subvert the provisions of the Constitution.

President Jagdeo is right when he stated that, he does not need the approval of Corbin to appoint Greene neither will he change his mind He is only required to consult but is not forced to accept the advice. It follows that, President Jagdeo must explain why he waited for two years, after Commissioner Felix demitted Office, before he initiated his first action with the Leader of the Opposition, on 17 June 2008. Why did he not appoint a substantive Commissioner for two years?

Nevertheless, assuming that President Jagdeos recollection is correct, he must still answer the question, why, more than two months after that alleged, consultation, he did not appoint Mr. Green, when he could have done so since 18 June 2008.

The delay in appointing a Commissioner of Police for more than two years, despite the deteriorating crime and security situation, including three massacres, at Lusignan, Bartica and Lindo Creek, could only be construed, at best, as gross misconduct, and, at worst, impeachable Presidential conduct.

The PNCR, therefore, calls upon President Jagdeo to explain, to the Nation, his gross misconduct. If the President fails to provide a plausible explanation, Guyanese may well believe the well-circulated rumours, which suggest that,there is more in the mortar than in the pestle.

Is it that the President was, for some unpublicized reason, prevented from appointing Henry Green as Commissioner of Police before? Is he serious about appointing him now? Alternatively, is he looking for a scapegoat to find a reason not to appoint him, while giving the public and Henry Green the impression he wants to do so.

With all the powers, which the President professes to have, it is surely unimaginable that he would pretend to be so impotent, in the appointment of a Substantive Commissioner of Police, for more than two years.

It is time that the President is made to account for his neglectful behaviour.

THE TORTURE REPORT MUST BE PUBLISHED:

The PNCR has repeatedly called for the publication of the report of torture in the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and torture methods used by the ranks of the Guyana Police Force. A report on torture in the GDF was promised by the President and the Chief of Staff, while the Minister of Home Affairs undertook to investigate the use of torture by ranks of the Guyana Police Force.

The GDF has reported publicly that they have handed in their report but its contents have not seen the light of day.

The PNCR repeats what it knows: The report fingers two GDF officers from the Military Investigation Department, a Lieutenant and a Captain, both of whom are well known to be responsive to instructions from the Office of the President. The Jagdeo Administration is, therefore, caught in a dilemma as to how it could release the report and escape the consequences of its contents.

In the meantime, the torture committed by ranks of the Police Force on David Zammett remains uninvestigated. The question of torture by security forces in Guyana has been under scrutiny for over a year and the Government is yet to bring closure to this matter.

Guyana has, therefore, acquired a reputation, in the English speaking Caribbean , for engaging in such brutal acts as torture. The country has, accordingly, become the object of attention and scrutiny by international organisations and Governments.

In seeming to encourage torture to be used, by the security forces, the Jagdeo Administration is culpable for allowing this unsavoury practice to take root in the security forces. The allegation of torture, by the GDF, of two young Amerindian boys from the North West District testifies to this.

It is appropriate to remind the Jagdeo Administration that torture is not only in violation of the Guyana Constitution but also of the various international agreements to which Guyana is a signatory, such as the UN and the OAS Conventions Against Torture. These Conventions also stipulate that the victims of torture are entitled to compensation.

The refusal of the Jagdeo Administration to root out torture, as a practice among elements of its security forces, borders on the criminal and will have far reaching consequences for the future of this country.

It has now become routine for this Administration to trample on the human rights of our citizens and yet have the audacity to claim that it believes in democracy.

THE LACK OF ACTION ON THE DEATH OF EDWIN NILES IS SCANDALOUS:

It is nothing short of barbaric, and the reflection of the lack of any moral compass, on the part of the Jagdeo Administration, that, after more than a month, no one has been punished for the brutal torturing and killing of Edwin Niles in the Georgetown Prisons.

As usual, the platitude that an investigation is being undertaken has been offered to a cynical public. Not surprisingly, the Jagdeo Administration has not gone beyond this position

Here is another matter that is likely to be a blot on this country, as the rest of the Region and the world look on while Guyana descends into a morass of incompetence, corruption, and now torture.

Like David Zammett, Victor Jones and Patrick Sumner, Edwin Niles human rights were violated by the Jagdeo Administration and that Administration seems unconcerned about taking the necessary measures to correct this attack upon our Constitution.

The PNCR does not hesitate to reiterate its publicly stated demand, even at this late hour, for an independent inquiry into the torturing and killing of Edwin Niles.

THE PROCEEDS OF THE LOTTO FUNDS MUST BE PLACED IN THE CONSOLIDATED FUND:

The PNCR has resisted the temptation to comment on the manner in which Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo has diminished the Presidency. Attacking reporters and showing disrespect for such an important personality, as Mr. Yesu Persaud, are hardly calculated to improve the image and standing of the Presidency in the eyes of the Guyanese public.

President Jagdeo, at his recent Press Conference, virtually attacked the Auditor General for submitting an honest account of the financial statement of the country. This cannot go unanswered. In particular, the PNCR wishes to take issue with the Presidents notion that not placing the Lotto proceeds into the Consolidated Fund is a technical matter and not a violation of Article 216 of the Constitution.

The PNCR enters a most profound disagreement with Bharrat Jagdeo and reaffirms its position that the proceeds of the Lotto must be placed in the Consolidated Fund, in accordance with the law. In this regard, the Party reinforces the position of its Chairman, as articulated at the Press Conference, held on 21 August 2008, that: In open and unashamed violation of Article 216 of the Guyana Constitution this money has not been paid into the Consolidated Fund.

Peoples National Congress Reform

Congress Place, Sophia

Georgetown, Guyana

Thursday 28 August 2008.

Visit our website @ www.guyanapnc.org

By supererro
Thursday, August 28, 2008

QUESTION
Do anyone know about the illumannati/Skull&Bones. And other secret societies and the influence they have on world leaders, and politics. If we know about these organization we will be surprised on how they affect politics. do your research and judge for yourself.
By amen-ra-ta
Thursday, August 28, 2008

A CHANGE IS COMING
Change is always difficult. Let's give the brotha a chance.

Peace
By Roses1
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Re: change is coming
Rose i agree with you a change is coming, but who is the change coming for? Even if obama becomes president, do you think blackpeople life is going to get better. Will obama have the guts and fortitude to change america's white supremist ideology that has been embedded in the constitution from its's inception. Do you think the powere to be, the people you and i don't know and will never know allow obame to do as he please. i know alot of us are happy to see a blackman as the president of the so called free world. But it won't be easy for him, he has to clean up the mess that the bush administration left him, he has to deal with the war in iraq and afganistan and pending war with iran, also the middle east issues and the awakening of the sleeping bear russia. It not easy being the president of the usa, by the time he get out he may have high blood pressure from the stress that comes with the job. but anyway let's just wait and see.
By amen-ra-ta
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

A CHANGE IS COMING
NOW... He's officially the nominee! Those of you who are blessed enough to have that blue passport, get your behinds out and go register. When the day comes in November, go to work late, call in sick, lie, do whatever you have to do, but get there and vote. They are counting on us not participating, like we always do, but let's make this the one time, they are fooled.

Think this has nothing to do with Guyanese people and Guyana? Just wait and see the difference in the entire world when this man is president. I know... my rose coloured glasses are showing but trust me. GET OUT AND VOTE. I'M NOT EVEN IN THE US BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE, I'M NOT EVEN DOING A ABSENTEE VOTE. I'M DRIVING MY BLUE PASSPORT HOLDING, THANK GOD I'M NOT STILL IN GUYANA, GRATEFUL THAT I'VE LIVED TO SEE THIS DAY BEHIND OVER THE BORDER AND VOTING.

Peace Yall.

By Roses1
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Happy Birthday
Going out to Wendy Williams Copeland from her people that loves her.Yo we are getting old with rocking chairs soon.Love you from your nephews,brother and the sister in law from you know where lol.Our in side joke.
By Abbypatto
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

dont change we gon do something about it...
people that work @ the post office in guyana need to STOP STEALING. NOW----its a cowardly,inhumane,inconsiderate,desperate,weak and blasphamous act.especially when youre stealing from kids and old folks. i beg you to stop this wrong doing... ps. do unto others as you would have them do onto you.
By buckman
Sunday, August 24, 2008

I'M LOOKING
hey this is a sweet woman dat is single and looking for a single man and not a boy too live her life with so if there is any single guyanese man out there and will like to meet me u can get me @ sexygtgirl08@yahoo.com if u r about games please dont send me any e-mail ok i'm out oh and u have to be tall or about 58" and when it come to age from 25 to 30
By nice__woman to love
Sunday, August 24, 2008

MORE EXAMPLES OF ORWELLS PIGS SYNDROME

The day the PPP boycotted Carifesta.

The PNC has officially adopted a policy of boycott of Carifesta. It reminds us of the 1980 Olympics. The Americans stayed away because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

The next Olympics ended up in Los Angeles and the Soviets returned the compliment. Mr. Corbin, the current leader of the PNC was a major player in the youth arm of the PNC in 1972 when Carifesta was invented by the PNC Government.

No doubt when he heard that the PPP Government was putting on the show in the country where it first started, a cynical smile enveloped his visage. He knew his time for revenge had come.

The PPP boycotted Carifesta 1972 over an issue that even if it wasnt there, would not have made a difference. President Burnham, in his announcement of Carifesta, stated that he would build a National Cultural Centre to coincide with Carifesta. The finance would come from the Indian Immigration Fund.

This was a large sum that was left back from the colonys allocation to finance the immigrants return to India. Dr. Jagan was livid. He tabled a motion in Parliament to have Burnhams decision debated.

The PPPs contention was that the money was not the property of the Government but belonged to the East Indians of Guyana.

The PPPs argument was that the Indian Immigration Fund was money specifically designed to alleviate the suffering of the indentured servants and what was left of it belonged to their descendants.

In fairness to the PPP, it never requested that the cash be given away to the East Indians or that the PPP must manage the collection. It wanted the money to be spent on something that was exclusively for East Indians.

Burnham was angry. His position was that the colony of British Guiana was now independent and what was in the treasury of the colonial government became the property of the Guyanese state. He said that it was money that had now come into the possession of the Guyanese Government.

Fast forward the tape to President Jagdeos press conference on Thursday held to discuss the Carifesta ticket nightmare. Mr. Jagdeo told the media that he cannot allow a foreign grant to be given to five investors of the Ogle airport. Such funds should be for the entire country.

Burnham was emphatic that the National Cultural Centre would be a Carifesta masterpiece. He went ahead and used the immigration finances.

Important to note; the PNC in 2006 said that the NIS belonged to the people who put their money into it. But the PPP Government went ahead and invested NIS revenues in the construction of the Berbice Bridge.

The PPP formed a front group named the Guyana Council for Indian Organisations (GCIO). It officially proclaimed a boycott of Carifesta and the 1973 anniversary of Republic Day. The PPP as the leading unit in GCIO had to go ahead with the abstention call.

Carifesta went ahead despite the opposition staying away. During Carifesta, Dr. Jagan took a holiday on the Black Sea in the Soviet Union.

Carifesta was a success for Burnham. It ran from August 25 -15 September. It attracted the participation of 28 countries with 63 cultural events spread over the entire territory of Guyana.

Carifesta was the turning point for the image of Burnham in the Caribbean. So huge was its success that Burnham was generally seen in the Anglo-phone West Indies as the regions leading politician.

When the 1973 rigged election came, the PPP could not have got a single Caricom leader to denounce the process.

This is where it did not matter if the immigration fund was the issue. Because of the election controversy stirring in the air, the PPP would have boycotted Carifesta anyway.

What is interesting to note as one looks back in the Mirror newspapers at the PPP when it was in opposition, is that one finds opposition to almost all of Burnhams policies including the issue of national ID cards, the establishment of the NIS, the sugar levy, the Mazaruni hydro power scheme.

Now in power, the PPP celebrates the long life of Carifesta. It spends NIS money in building a bridge across the Berbice River. It made use of the vast amount of cash in the sugar levy for twelve years after it came to power in 1992.

These were the very people that called a strike against the sugar levy that lasted 135 days. And the Government has approved private investment in hydro power.

Mr. Corbin might be saying that he got sweet revenge in two ways. He returned the boycott favour and he is overjoyed that many of the PNCs policies the PPP is glad to embrace. So much for good guys versus bad guys in Guyanese politics.

VG: The PPP boycotted Carifesta in 1972 while they wer in opposition, but today criticize the PNC for doing the same when they are in opposition. The PPP objected to the use of the Indian Re-migration fund being used to fund the building of a national cultural center, but funds the Berbice bridge with NIS money, and even lent a pal of the party 168 million for his private enterprise.

When one examines the conduct of this regime, the hypocrisy that emerges is stifling. From monopolizing state media, something they spent all their years in opposition accusing the PNC of doing, to replacing carreer skilled public servants with unintelligent and backward party hacks, the current regime in Guyana have given life in the twenty first century to Orwell's pigs, strutting triumphalistically on on two hind legs under a revolutionary banner that condemns that style of locomotion. Go figure.

By victoriaguy
Sunday, August 24, 2008

BYE!
If I could not hurt you you would still be here lying and misleading people. I do not want you to l;eave. I want you face reality. I get down in the gutter in response to your bottom feeding, and I make no apologies for it.

What have you got? You throw names around will nilly, demand that people in hear notify you when they left Guyana, or how often they go to Guyana, present the lies the adult racist you identify in your family supplied you about what occured in Linden, and attempt to convince people that they should buy into your silly conclusions that Guyanese are better off today than they were twenty years ago.

Twenty years ago drug traffickers did not own Law Enforcement. The major drug traffickers were being pursued, arrested and jailed when found guilty. Twenty years ago racist predators were not allowed to organize the killing of young men of another group under the guise of crime fighting. And the predators who targeted individuals from any group for robbery and violence were being arrested and brought to justice. Examine the files at CID HQ and see how many unsolved major murders there were before 1992. More than 90% of major crimes were being solved and the perps brought to justice.

20 years ago tax payers money was no being used to bail out the friends of political leadership. Thge national news paper was not a forum for the most hideous racist slurs and innuendos aimed at the constituents of the opposition. Those who supported the Government inj power were not engaging in triumpalistic flaunting of their ethnicity and demanding special distinction during international festvals or events. ACDA was formed after 1992. And although they had, and still have every right to, African Guyanese have never demanded that a day be set aside to honor their arrival and contributions to this country. Our ancestors provided more than three hundred years of free labor and skill in the development of this country, and every group that came after or were there before, bar none, benefits from that. That we did not triumphhalistically demand that the PNC give us a holiday is testament to our sensitivities and lack of visceral suprmacist tendencies.

So run if you will. I arm my self with the knowledge and understanding to parse history and experience in a manner consistent with the traditions of those who constructed the Spinx of Ghizeh. I absolutely refuse to allow the myths and ill-conceived notions that typify the cultural understanding others have of black people to be the paradigm for any conclusions advanced about us. And I will go into trenches in defence of my people, regardless of how low they are on the economic and social scale. "Yo don't throw away yo own bad for your mattee good", never!!!! You try to change them and make as good as any.

By victoriaguy
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Re: field marshal
what's wrong with eating what you grow, have you notice all caribbean leaders are calling on the region to cut back on importing food and grow more food and eat what you produce. Look at guyana with all that land and we have import other people products. Do you know that some countries with no land are leasing land from other countries with land to grow food and export it back to their country, and look at guyana with all that in the interior just wasting with vegetation. so you can criticized my post and say that guyand is better off today that it was twenty year ago, but time will tell. when we fail to produce we shall surely perish. So let guyana continue to import other people food and become the begging basket of the caribbean.
By amen-ra-ta
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Re: lightskin
Bye we wont miss you
By amen-ra-ta
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Bye Folks
Hey folks its been nice but I've decided that I will no longer be contributor to this forum. I wish most you guys all the best. Peace
By lightskin
Saturday, August 23, 2008

VG
Is that the best you could do. You sound like such a damn sissy with your visceral, never ending, emotional responses. Light skin you said this and light skin you did that and light skin you are such a cunning b. You are such an old fag. VG, get a life..........................lol. No matter how hard you try you will never hurt me. You are like a dogs a s s.......always full of S H I T

By lightskin
Saturday, August 23, 2008

AND JUST FOR THE RECORD
lightskin like I said in earlier posts, little whores like you do not faze me none. You are like driftwood, ballast, debris. Hell hath no fury like your kind when you are outed, when your deceitful and tenebrous logic is put under microscopic examination. having you introduce me to a black women wouuld be the equivalent of asking the grand daughter of Benito Mussolini to introduce me to Martin Luther King. Utterly ludicrous.

I will not insult the female canine species by using its name to describe your popular nature, but people can grasp the implication. Better to be a silly old fool than a "b" word with more space than the atlantic ocean. Go get some sutures to make you a normal woman rather than a cavernous slut
By victoriaguy
Saturday, August 23, 2008

INVESTIGATE!!!!
If you cannot access it there google Guyana Caribbean Community Network Forum Index, click on Politics and Government, open frame 6 of the web page, and then open "Mark Benschop: Former Political Prisoner - Guyana". This will ,put to rest any implied notion that Benschop and lightskin are on the same wavelength. It will also make her citing his name ridiculous, since he will be saying the same things she is critcizing us for writing in here. Sometimes you just have to hoist people with their own petard.
By victoriaguy
Saturday, August 23, 2008

EVIDENCE THAT IMPEACHES

Mark Benschop's youtube interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ZELeggsMA
By victoriaguy
Saturday, August 23, 2008

WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP
And you fit the profile of the viperish and cunning next door neighbour scheming to cause grief to the poor black family next door, while skinning your teeth at them like a chestshire cat. Those black women whose names you throw around in here do not know that you label their daughters and them as "warrish" and cite their inage as one that can never be considered beautiful unless there was some outside mixture to give grace. You are a perverted soul lightskin, because despite making those racist comments in here you still have the unmitigated gall to claim affinity with black women. But our women have always had the grace to open their hearts to the worse, even those unworthy of such opening. So I ain't mad at or with them. My expectations of their sense of morality and lack of prejudice, even when it comes to those who belittle them under the annonymity of the internet naming paradigms.

When someone claims to be impartial but only rises to criticize when the focus is on a specific political party the conclusion is obvious. It just that your scheming mind cannot accept the notion that your guise is discernible. When it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is duck.

Puhleeese!!!!!!! You and your kind are not after reconciliation, you are after capitulation. You are after fomenting rift within the black community in order to divide and conquer. Your evidence in this room is that of a jekyll and hyde character, slandering a race of people by making stereotyped references about the men and women in that group, and then whimperingly blaming the women for your viperish hatred. Everyone in here with a memory knows what I am talking about, and no amount of "crazy old uncle" will make them amnesiac. Hey, I have 35 beautiful black and mixed nieces who do not have to slander another group in order to feel good about themselves. Their parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts taught them well. The rainbow of colors that describe their physical appearance have never been crucial to their acceptance within the fold, which is probably why they do not need to beat up on any group in order to butress their self esteem.

I have a lot more choice descriptions that fit you to a tee, but I am just getting started. As for Mark Benschop, nothing you can say or do can alter that brother's r5espect for yours truly, or for that matter any of the others struggling to keep alive the hope of a population under assault and attack. It was your party and Government that took away five years of Benschop's life. It was many of us in here who wrote assidiously demanding his freedom. Where were you when we in here were signing petitions demanding his freedom from political lockdown. Where the hell were you then? Just like how you piggyback on patriotism when an Indian Government is in power you are attempting to piggyback on Benschop's activism when you were MIA when he was in political lockdown. How damn dirty can you p[eople be?

It is because of the policies of your party and government that he has to be raising money to provide skills for single mothers struggling to eke out an existence while being slaughtered by a 33% tax rate and 16% value added consumption tax. You throw names around vaingloriously under the asumption that these black people in here are stupid and your infantile ploys can deceive them. People need to think deeply about these things when they examine the facetious claims you make about Guyanese doing better today than they were 20 years ago. Anyone who lived in Linden 20 years ago can clearly make an experiential distinction between life then and now. And it is only that they need to examine to grasp and understand the utter maliciousness and depravity of your claim that they are better off today than they were then. It is only that they need to examine in order to grasp and understand that you are using the geometrical rise in the fortunes of those with political power since 1992, as the measure of the improvement and quality of life for the peoples of Linden, Buxton, Africola, Ithaca and those other communites under fire because they have black majorities.

Folks this woman is defending the PPP while using the name of the person they victimized, to wit Mark Benschop, to manufacture props for herself. Can you believe this? Well go on youtube and check out his interview and see whose views of Guyana his is closer to. Check out his interview with GCD in Brooklyn, and see if his utterances are not mirror reflections of many of the things I have written in here. That is how you investigate to determine who is trying play with your minds. lightskin is insulting your intelligence by making associations between black activists utterly critical of the PPP policies, while criticizing others in here who are doing the same things. A latrine by any other name will smell the same, and that is what her postulations amount to. You know that old rythm and blues song about eyes that lie. Well yours won't if you marry investigation and recall to your assessment of her.
By victoriaguy
Saturday, August 23, 2008

VG
VG you are hilariuos. You definately fit the description of that crazy uncle everyone loves and accepts but ignores and dismisses at the thanksgiving dinner table. You know, the crazy old uncle who looks at a square but insist its a circle, or looks at the color red and dares anyone to chanllenge him that its not blue. You are an old man, set in your ways and no matter how well the telephone works as a communication device, you still insist on tying your messages to the foot of a carrier pigeon.

You are absolutely nuts, and the worse thing about it is that you don't even realize how crazy you really are. You almost implied in your last post that I am a spy for the PPP government. You really need to get it together and instead of being bitter and resentful, do something good for the Guyanese people, not just your family, but for those poor strangers who probably have no one abroad sending money to supplement their income. Instead of posting the same lame Kisoon reports and cuts from the stabroek news, lead the cause in doing something productive and tangible. Use your influence amongst the forum's contributors to set up a fund to ensure that all children in Linden have school uniforms. Create some type of organization to encourage Guyanese Americans to patronize Guyanese products so that the market for Guyanese goods expands. Go back to Guyana and contribute your time and energy to Mark Benshops cause. He is really doing some good things. I have never met him personally but I have seen on Guyana television some of his efforts and I am greatly impressed. Try do some work for Mrs. De Souza who heads red thread, an organization which helps to empower Guyanese women of all races to break the divisions that exist in our communities. I know her personally and if you are serious about helping, I can give you her contact helping. WPA also has a few outreach programs one of which is headed by Mrs Aiyende who I also know personally.

However, I doubt you really want to help. Instead you come on here and whine and moan because you just simply like to hear yourself talk. You are an empty barrel, rolling down the street making noise but empty nonetheless. And I blame your relatives for allowing you to continue to believe that what you say is "Gospel." They have sat by and enabled your arrogant, aggressive, Mr. Know it all, do as I say, control freak disposition.

Thankfully you are only an arm chair politician whose only constituents are those helpless little grandkids, nieces and nephews of yours who you educate about the glories of the PNC and the burning and looting tactics they use when things don't go your way. Id rather be under a bottom house than to be looting and burning down a house because my man didn't win. If you loose, throw a channa bomb in the vehicle of the supporters of the opposition, better yet, drag them out of the vehecle surround them and strip them naked. If that doesnt work, get a gang of your fellow neighbors, arm yourselves with cutlasses and invade their community and kill whomever you please. And all the while sing that lullaby " slow fire....mo fire ..................................................
silly old fool
By lightskin
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Guyana Blofields.
FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN

When you talk, this Government gets annoyed but

They say we must not make choices for our children. Before their thought patterns are formed, you can tell them what not to do. As they grow into adulthood, they should be left to make their own choices.

My daughter knew that I was not interested in Carifesta period! I made my choice based on theoretical considerations.

When countries are poor and nothing positive looks like it will appear on the horizon, the government seeks to divert attention. It is commonly referred to as bread and circus. This is an old process; very old.

What unpopular governments do is they get their people all excited by some entertainment programme. They create a national holiday and fete the masses or they invent a festival and the nation goes wild with the entertainment that follows. That is why it is nicknamed, bread and circus.

How ironic that a PPP Government is celebrating Carifesta when the PPP referred to it in 1972 when Burnham hosted it as bread and circus.

How can PPP leaders face this nation when that was the label the PPP newspaper the Mirror used to describe the first Carifesta. Of course the answer to that is extremely simple. When in opposition try to criticize as hard as possible.

When you get into power, forget what you said when you were in opposition Can the second poorest country in Caricom afford to hold Carifesta?

The answer is no. But the bread and circus formula is a dire necessity at this time because nothing ebullient on the economic front is happening. The traditional pattern of diversion in politics is very much alive in Guyana.

After Carifesta will come the big protest rally against the signing of the EPA. No doubt just like countless populist dictators in the past including our own Forbes Burnham, President Jagdeo will address a rally, either in Berbice at Babu John or at the National Park.

Thousands of GAWU, NAACIE and PPP supporters will be bussed to the event. President Jagdeo will be garlanded. Then the demagoguery will flow. The Europeans will be lambasted for continuing colonialism under a modern guise.

The EPA will be denounced as First World bullying. The state media will carry huge portraits of the President as he addressed the rally and you will see photographs of the crowds as they applaud the every word of their President. This is what theorists who study politics call diversion.

The Carifesta diversion is on, but predictably things fell apart on ticket day. My daughter told me she wants to go to Carifesta. I felt that was her decision and I should not interfere even though I was not in the least interested.

I dropped her off at her friends where they would go to the National Cultural Centre to collect tickets for the opening night. She was particularly interested in the steel orchestra from Trinidad.

What I saw on Middle Street outside the Carifesta Secretariat forced me to call my daughter immediately to tell her to back off, forget about Carifesta.

Hundreds and hundreds of persons were standing up for hours in an endless line. There was no way, from what I saw, those hundreds could get tickets.

The insane incompetence forced my daughter from the National Cultural Centre and the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. She went to the Theatre Guild in Kingston and still the madness was unending.

Here is a Government that knew long in advance that it was hosting this festival and there would be an opening day for which tickets will be distributed.

Yet true to form it put on display its incomprehensible ignorance and its unfathomable incompetence when it comes to administering any process.

This Government gets annoyed when you describe the way they run Guyana. They are livid that these reports get outside and people have a terrible impression of Guyana, They lecture to you that you should not expose your country so negatively to the outside world. They hate the private media for this.

I guess we will soon hear either today or tomorrow the exhortation that we have thousands of visitors in Guyana and we, in the media should not write anything to tarnish the countrys image.

This is a subtle way of greeting you to shut your mouth on their unbelievable mediocrity. The people who lacerate this nations image are the Guyana Government itself.

Look how they treated their own citizens who wanted a ticket to see something that would bring the Government itself political capital.

I have written several times on this page that even when the Forbes Burnham Government was broke, it still performed more creditably in administering this nation than the present PPP cabal. What a mess we are in

VG: During slavery they had a lot of folks aligned with the slave master walking around among the enslaved trying to convince them that they better off under bondage than they would have been had they been been free. But that is how these little eichmans think. Their world revolves around an ignorance that impells them into the belief that the non African characteristics they are endowed with gives them a leg up in the ability to think. That is why they scream at you to doubt your lying eyes and believe them. But these are the most dangerous of our adversaries. Because these come into our homes bearing the gift of a rattle snake disguised as a wrist band. Research their contributions in this forum before using the shyte they lay out here today to confuse you.
By victoriaguy
Saturday, August 23, 2008

BEHOLD, THE SYCOPHANT OF SYCOPHANTS
People do not allow this sycophant to fool you. She only arouses herself when the PPP is criticized. They are so accustomed to this bottom house ignarance that they believe that it will fool anyone, including those outside the periphery of the bottom house indocrination

And take at keen gander at the similarity of mindsets of those who sent here to peddle propaganda. Without exception they obsess about who has gone to Guyana and when they have gone to Guyana and when they left Guyana. You will never find any black person infusing that into his or her argument on the politics of Guyana, for the simple reason that our ties to our country is not connected to the ethnicity of governorship. These little eichmans who only began raising the flag from 1992 when their ethnicity got into power, however, myopically cannot relate to anything without that ethnic stamp. It is just a matter of what they were taught on the knees of their parents and grandparents.

It is always ironic how closely the patterns of prejudice manifest it self across cultural spasms. Reading that "I have a black friend" litany could be infused without spare words into the outpourings of many who use to walk around in sheets and hoods in the US South. It matters not what separates people like you. What comes out of you when eyes peer beyond the facade of your facetious and deceitful front is always standard repertoire, the kind of confusion that emerges when a deer is caught in the beams of a searchlight.

You see Guys, this sycohant is so damn obtuse that she believes that if you are not posting you are sleeping, and that is good for her bosses. I mean what kind of thinking, coherent thinking that is, allows anyone who came on board this site long after members have been posting to assume they have gome somnolent. That is an example of the intellect that is presuming to know better than you what people are going through in Guyana. They probably advised her that the sour milk they dispense to those who are hungry and thus malleable, will be gobbled up all of us. But that is the kind of conclusions that develop in minds structured by bthe "awee pon tap" syndrome. Don't let her pollute your understandings.
By victoriaguy
Saturday, August 23, 2008

MIND YOUR BUSINESS. STOP PEEPING INTO BLACK PEOPLES LIVES
They cultural myth that black people are somnolent because they do not respond to every silly postulation is typical of you deceitful bigots who are too damn backward to realize that you cannot fool anyone. You and the others who spout for the PPP are as typical as a rock. You absolutely nothing about anyone in this forum, but you become obsessed with their locations. That is all you have. A assinine repitition that those who do not agree with you have not been home in a while. The fact that there is no earthly way one can make such determination on the basis of internet interaction would be obvious to anyone but the most obtuse.

Your retort is typical of those so distant from black and African that they attribute the ignorance of such distance to disengagement on part of the blodded. No African should sink himself or herselof so low as to rationalize their affinity with their group to someone who described their women as "warrish" and their men as no good. Like I said heretofore, that excrement you lay down here is for those who are ummylenated.

You PPPites need to mind your own damn buusiness and stop this obsession with wanting to know what black people are doing. That is all you do in here. We know who you are. We are not amnesiac. All of your rant is to find out info on people on this website to supply to those who sent you, in order for them to vent their small minded vindictiveness on those who are vulnerable. But fifth comumnist come in all shades and colors, and in all genders, and you are no different than all of those who have come before you.

If black people had more like you concerned about them they would not need enemies. Our causes were never helped by the likes of Beneduct Arnolds who attempt to silence exposure of their ethnic bigotry by demanding affirmation of blackness from those who wear that distinction proudly. That ignorant and pathetic childish gambit is middle school expirtise. That you continue to ride it like broken a down donkey is added evidence of your decrepit mindset.

I do not need your respect. That is something I have never been short of in my community. And what we do to help our people in Guyana is not the business of the oppressors and their acolytes. You ought to concentrate on seeing how much more you can extract from the public coffers to nepotistically benefit your kind. Again, a bigot who began her posting with an assertion that black women are not naturally beautiful, and likened the natural texture of black women's hair to "warishness" has to be either obtuse or shameless to question anyone in this forum. Probably both rings true.
By victoriaguy
Saturday, August 23, 2008

VG
I guess it doesnt take much to wake up the dead huh? You being the descendants of slaves doesnt give you any more rights to express your feelings and concerns than the next person. But if you want to go there then I will. Not only am I the descendants of slaves, but also of Indentured Labourers, who were probably untouchables in India, Amerindians, who have been exploited by all groups in Guyana and I am a women, who in many cases are treated like second class citizens around the world: where in India many were forced to perform SATI, and even in your beloved Africa where many of them are circumsized with dirty razors, knives and or pieces of glass, and in the case of Ethiopians, stiched up after they have had their cliterosis removed. In addition, I am the grand daugher of a woman who was half amerindian and black who was married to an East Indian man and who was gang raped by a group of black men who while raping her called her a buck whore and a coolie man whore while she was having "BOTTLES" PUSSSSHED UP INTO HER VAGINA. IN W I S M A R. Also, I am the niece of a man who looked pured Indian and because of his phenotype was doused with kerosine oil by a group of PNC Blacks in Wismar and set on fire while they hollered, bun coolie, bun. So please, if having ancestors who have suffered and gone through incredible odds or being part of a group with a plight gives you a passport to critique and voice your greveinces, then I have you beat sir.
What so funny about you VG is that you probably have not set foot in Guyana for 20 years. All you know about Guyana is what you read in the papers. You probably cant tell me where anything is in Georgetown, you probably can not describe any new buildings except for the ones pictured on papers. When you visit Guyana, for extended periods of time, then I would respect some of what you are saying. But all you do is complain about this and complain about that but I dont see you offering any solutions or trying to go back to help. I will ask you this again, if Guyana was so good under Burhnam, why the heck did you leave. YOu act like you love Guyana so much yet you did not stay and help to build, and offer your talents you left. YOu were part of that massive brain drain. YOu left and did not even look back but here you are sitting and complaining about what the Indians are doing. What the hell are you doing. Do you donate money to the ACDA. ARE you donating money time and energy to any black causes in Guyana. Do you go back for emancipation every year and give lectures, or feed poor and the homeless. Let me tell you in my own way I have given back. Every single year,me and my relatives go back to guyana during the Christmas season and use my Grandfahters truck to distribute tons of food, bags with rice, lentil, split peas and chicken to families with money that we pooled together for the occasion. When I went back to Guyana, I spoke to women at the red thread organization headed by Ms. De Souza about female empowerment and aids prevention. My sisters and I have held dinners in the past at the palms and have given care packages to those in our communities. What the hill do you do but sit at your computer all day looking over your glasses and throw big words at people in your forever condescending know it all , im always right ur always wrong arrogant cocky tone. VG do something productive. You're not his forums alpha male. Like I said, when you finally touch down on Guyana's soil and can see things for yourself, then you can argue with me. Until then, spend sometime searching the net for a cheap ticket to GT.
By lightskin
Saturday, August 23, 2008

supererp continued
I never said Burhnam was racist. However he played the race card to maintain power. And since he knew that he would not be able to maintain power giving again that people in Guyana voted along racial lines. Since Indians were the majority, he had to find a way to keep the masses Indians in their places. Those who were with him were all right. Those who were not including many blacks like the honorable Walter Rodney, lord help them. It wasnt personal, he just wanted to maintain his power by any means neccessary. And he did so for the most part by using the overwhelmingly black police force and military to intimidate Indians. However, it seems like when ever I mention these things, you and others claim that I am lying. I am just going by the research I have done and the personal stories told to me by my elders and people in my community. Just like your black counterparts who rightly speak out, I think their voices should be heard as well. But their seems to be such a double standard and a feeling of entitlement in this forum. When someone mentions how Indians were suppressed by the PNC, you guys right away shoot it down yet you expect Indians to understand your current plight. Sorry it has to go both ways and until Guyanese can really open their minds and hearts, and step back and look at the whole picture and see how we are all try to dominate one another, we will always be in this mess that we find ourselves.

By lightskin
Saturday, August 23, 2008

hello superero
Although I don't agree with all you have said, I do commend your ability to make your point without getting personal and overly emotional unlike some of the old heads in here. Before I continue howere, let me make it clear that I in no way or form a PPP supporter even though many of my family members are. In fact, I have unfortunately not been on speaking terms with certain family members because I have challenged them about their unwavering support of Jagdeo despite the fact that they harp and complain about the situation in Guyana. And my response has always been " if you keep doing what you are doing, you will keep getting what you have been getting." What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Welcome to Guyana.
The PPP won the elections in 1992 because finally after 28 years, we for the first time had open, free and fair elections. Giving that Indians were the majority and still are, and people in Guyana vote along racial lines, the Jagan had no probem in gaining the slight majority needed to become leader of the nation. I was ten then and living in Mon Repos on the East Coast and let me say I clearly remember that transition. I remember the riots, I remember seeing on local television tons of PNC supporters roaming the streets, burning, looting Indian businesses. I remember just hearing both on the news and people in the street telling Indians not to go out, not to go the Georgetown because Indians were already being targeted. Chana bombs were being thrown into automobiles that contained Indian passengers. I was in Guyana when all this happened and we were scared as hell. So this was my reality Superero I was in Guyana not living in the states like you Guys. The slow fire/mo fire was Hoytes mantra during every election when Indians had to fear for their lives. I must thus give credit to Corbin for not inciting this type of violence during the last election.
By lightskin
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Lightskin & hya man
AND I QUOTE, "if a black man is in power, blacks would support him no matter what as long as his skin stays black." Lightskin, research again, that statement is good for any other people but BLACK! If that statement was true (as it relates to Guyana) the PPP would not have won the elections in 1992. If Indians were like black people the PPP would have been HISTORY. What I am about to posit is not hearsay; it is what I know. Forbes Burnham loved power but he was a man with vision and wanted to be like MOSES (lead his people out of the wilderness) if you get my drift. I see nothing wrong with that, do you? However, he failed miserably on that particular subject.

There were more Indians in the Burnham & Hoyte administrations than Blacks in the PPP ADMINISTRATION under any leader, period. You can call ham a dictator (I will live with that) but I refuse to subscribe to the theory that Burnham was a racist. I don't care where you read it!

Shridath Ramphal, Cammie Ramsaroop, Winston Murray, Vic Persaud (He was and still is Liaison to the President, go ask him who was the best President he worked with, and I am willing to wager anyone that his answer will be Burnham), Ranji Chandisingh, Mohammed Shahabudeen, Vincent Teekah (deceased), Halim Majeed, Muntaz Majeed (deceased). The above names are all Indians who gived credit to Burnham's leadership and can tell you that he was not a racist.

It was Cheddi Jagan (contrary to what your grandfather told you) who realised the only way he could touch Burnham was by playing the race card. The PNC always had an inclusive government and never sought to suppress Indians.

Indeed, we should let the past go, but it is this government who continue to blame the PNC for everything but Roger Khan!

It is the same research that you are privy to that others read and are able to judge, up or down, so it does not matter when one left Guyana. Didn't the stats told you, it was because of Burnham's ideology which was contrary to what uncle sam desired (that they sent in ECONOMIC SPIES) which started the downward spiral of our economy? In addition, the sabotaging of the canefields and sugar estates (by, you know who) brought more pressure on the economy.

Guyana has lots of resources and potential but needs leadership. It was Forbes Burnham who initiated the grow your own food and help yourself. I heard you, lightskin, echo those same thoughts in a recent post. There are lots of Americans living all over the world (for different reasons) as well as Jamaicans, Trinidadians and Bajans; were they forced to leave?

I cannot stand hypocrisy and we as a people should stop peddling hearsay and speak out for what is wrong or right! The present administration in Guyana has FAILED and will continue to do so until they respect the rule of law and deal with the issues of the security forces.

"Who really cares about the PNCR likes and dislikes, from the inception the PNC really sucks,you said the Jagdeo administration operates like a dictatorship well I have news for you under the PNC it was not better, have you ever wonder why we all are not living in Guyana right now, it's not because of the Jagdeo abministration."

I never said that the Jagdeo administration operates like a dictatorship, not me! I would be lying had I said same. This cabal is a DICTATORSHIP in every sense of the word, hya man! As for the PNC, there is nothing you or anyone can tell me that is am not aware of. I was a member of the YSM from 1975 to when I left Guyana. I was a member of the Guyana Police Force when I left Guyana, and I was assigned to the SPECIAL BRANCH. Believe you me hya man, there is nothing you can tell me that I don't know. Speaking about dictatorship, it was the Socialist ideology to be dictatorial. What are we doing with a dictator in a democratic state? One thing we can agree on would be that the PNC definitely needs to stop being "wimpy" and must re organize! I have nothing to be ashamed of my friend, wake me in the middle of the night and I will place my X on the palm tree.

By supererro
Saturday, August 23, 2008

BLATHERING NABOBS OF HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY
The problem with most of these PPP sycophants is that they are too inquisitive about peoples personal business. They want to know when you left the country, where you are living, who you are connected to, all for the sole purpose of providing infor to their minders to reap vindictive havock with the lives of your relatives

My ancestors were brought to Guyana more than 400 years ago, and cemented my right to critique any government with their blood, sweat, tears and unparallel contributions. The ignorance of history other than a narrow ethnicly varnished view of the nation and this world impells formulations and analysis that are ridiculously sophomoric and facetious. And it is this same ignorance that provides many with the chutzpah to stand on their Indian ethnicity and pronounce to black people how they should feel and how they should react to the stimuli of their enviironment. This might work with those whose cerebral connections have not yet mylenated to allow them to recognize the cultural mastubatory context of these postulations. But it will never mislead or mis-educate those of us with the attention span to marry evidence together.

Guyanese on this site need to examine these silly attempts to mislead them and silence their critique of the PPP. Because the most poignant evidence of where these people who grind your gears over criticism of the PPP stand, is the alacrity with which they jump to its defence while facetiously assuring you that they are criticizing both, that they are for equality, that the prism through which they view Guyana is not colored by ethnic cultural instructions that ordain black as negative and Indian as positive. Don't be browbeated into confusion over choosing between what they put out and your lying eyes and sensibilities.

The PPP has a conference and law enforcement goes out and arrest 70+ black kids without justification. Sure there are criminals in the villages where they live. But there are criminals in every village in Guyana, including pirates who rob and kill, but whose home villages are never targetted for the abuses experienced by a Buxton or an Agricoal. This is no accident. This happens, because the mindset of the political minders of law enforcement, like the mindset of some in here, view the characteristics that are distinct to people of African descent as evidence of criminality, or "warishness" as postulated in here. We are supposed to remain silent and listen to those whose views and analysis are skewed by their concretized understanding of what amounts to positive human attributes. Brazen and bare-faced are tender euphemisms to describe hypocrisy that inundate some remarks in here.

Amen should give a cuss word to any ethnic supremacist that dares to challenge his right to speak about his country with a question of when he left Guyana. These are people who only becamse Guyanese in 1992. They are only Guyanese because their ethnicity is in power. That is why they come up with these adoloscent manuevers about when you left Guyana. This is an indication of the level of intellect that goes into these portulations. A level of intellect that is so bastardly deficient that while it comfortably expounds on issues the world over, incuding places it has never seen, it facetiously presupposes that the physical abscence of an African from his or place of birth prohibits them from expounding on the affairs there. Talk about stupidy.
By victoriaguy
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Re: Are we better of or not? - amen-ra-ta
I would just like to share this TRUTH. I am not a supporter of the PPP, but seeing that we are indicating that under the PNC thngs were better, i am force to make this comment. Under the PNC, every home had a bicycle or 2. Under the PPP 4 out of every 5 homes have a car. So are we better off? Under the PNC, you eat ONLY what you grow. With the PPP, you eat what you don't even know (Variety from near and far). Under the PNC, you drink milk streched with creek water from Bamia. PPP you have many choices of milk brand.

I stop here. PPP are CROOKS. PNC are CROOKS without power.
By Field Marshall
Saturday, August 23, 2008

hya man
Im sorry. I wanted to say silent but I just can't. Please ask Amenrata when they left Guyana. I would bet my first born child that he left our beloved country during the PNC reign. And my question to them is this: if Guyana was doing so well under the PNC, why did they leave. If they loved Guyana so much and thought we were doing so well under the PNC, why did they not stay to helf build and contribute their human capital to the country? Why did they get up and run to "greener pastures" if the PNC was doing such a bang on job. Sorry folks, look at the statistics and you will find that by the late seventies and especially during the early eighties, middle class East Indians and Africans were leaving Guyana in droves, following in the foot steps of their Chinese and Portuguese Guyanese Betheren who had already fled to Toronto. Burhnam started out doing a lot of good but things started to fall apart in the late seventies and Guyana has been on a downward spiral ever since. Ask your Trinidadian and Bajan friends. Guyana did not become the laughing stock of the Caribbean in 1992, we were the laughing stock since the early eighties. I had a college professor from Trinidad who stated that in the early eighties, he remembers Trinidadians mocking Guyanese as being poor and desperate. A country with frequent black outs and no bread. He remembers people in Trinidad calling monopoly money Guyanese money and calling those weaved plastic bags women use at the market Guyanese suitcases. And this was in the early eighties.
You talk about Guyana's crime rate being worse now than in the eighties, well what country's crime rate isnt worse now than it was in the eighties. Crime is on the raise everywhere you go in the world including the USA. Im not saying that the government in Guyana isnt partly responsible but to compartmentalize things is insane. Look at what's just happening in Trinidad with the kidnappings. Look at Barbados's and Antigua's raising crime rate. When it comes to crime, things are getting worse every where you go so please get real. The problem with most Guyanese is that many of us are married to either the PNC and the PPP and very few are willing to admit that neither party is good for the country and both parties know this and use this to their advantage. When the PNC was in power, the PPP presented itself as the good guys, and now that the PPP is in power, the PNC is all the sudden concerned about human rights. The problem in Guyana is that politicians don't need to do anything substancial for the good of the country to get or remain in Power. For intance, if a black man is in power, blacks would support him no matter what as long as his skin stays black. And vice versa. Because an Indian is in power, Indians even those who are poor will still holler Jagdeo's name like he God just because he is Indian. I call it a Guyanese sickness. People choose to ignore or all together forget or even worse deny what the past and present transgressions of their party. Its really sad how people bury their heads in the sand. If this continues, Guyana will continue to be in its doomed state. My only hope is that the racial mixing and the influx of Brazilians and Colombians will hopefully break the spell of this Indian African power struggle. It is my hope too that the younger generation opens its eyes and see that the status quo isnt working. This will definately have to begin though with the Indians since they hold Guyana's political future in their hands. My hope too is that with the mass migration of Indians, the Indian and thus allow other parties a chance to bring in supports

population will decrease and hopefully be equal with that of blacks which will break the power of the PPP
By lightskin
Friday, August 22, 2008

THE PNC WAS FAR MORE EFFICIENT THAN THE PPP
The PPP is the equivalent of the South African National Party. Why the hell should we ignore its racist core. There are a whole heap of black guys who were hunted down, tortured and killed because their race identified them as criminal suspects to those pointing the fingers. Your worrying about one black guy that Sharma killed while ignoring the hundreds that Roger Khan was involved in killing speaks volumes about your leanings.

Guyana today is worse off than it has ever been. At least for most of the black people in the country who face discrimination and marginalization on sevral fronts. The aim is to decimate that segment of the population so as to allow that racist right wing section of the ruling party to feel good about themselves. That is why they send out sycophants to mislead and spread propaganda.
By victoriaguy
Friday, August 22, 2008

No Promotion
I do find it funny that this site which at some times proves itself informative, did not make any mention of Guyana participating in the Olympics or of its athletes. They may not be that many, but we still shld be proud enough about making it.
By younggirl
Friday, August 22, 2008

making it to Olympics semi's
with response to sweetg's no guyanese making it to the olympic semi's. I'm guessing u were'nt watching the women's 400 heats when Aliann Pompey ran and placed second to make it to the semi finals, which she then ran and at on point was in the lead but however slipped to 4th..(beating the American in the race). Altho we didnt make the finals i'm still proud of what she did.

Please look out for Marian Burnett running the 800m
By younggirl
Friday, August 22, 2008

re: hya-man
Hya-Man you need to stop living in the past, i can remember in the 80's having a job and not being hungry and not worrying about crime and gunman sticking you up for the little that you have, forward to after the pnc left office what do guyanese have now large youth unemployment, a spiralling crime wave, no jobs even for adults unless you know someone or your name is singh. and i can go on and on. guyanes are worst of now than in the 8o's you think about it.
By amen-ra-ta
Friday, August 22, 2008

supererro
Hey Super I am not in agreement with the last article you wrote.
Who really cares about the PNCR likes and dislikes, from the inception the PNC really sucks,you said the Jagdeo administration operates like a dictatorship well I have news for you under the PNC it was not better, have you ever wonder why we all are not living in Guyana right now, it's not becaause of the Jagdeo abministration.
It's time for the wimpy PNCR group reorganise, and decide to have much meaningful dialogue with the ruling administration for the development of Guyana.
They would not agree on everything, but they still can give support to the ruling party because it's for Guyana's development.
Is CNS the Sharma TV channel, if so permit me to inform you he should never be on the air, he should be in jail for shooting a black guy in McDoom village on the East Bank of Demerara when he used to rum a rumshop there.
All I can remember under the PNC was hard time bro, and lots of talks from illiterate people who are always discussing what some one said.
You guys shoulkd be ashamed to associate yourself with anything vaguely PNC
By Hya-Man
Friday, August 22, 2008

STANDING UP FOR SOMETHING!!!!!!!
PRESS RELEASE
By
Peoples National Congress Reform
Thursday August 21, 2008

PNCR LEADERSHIP WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN CARIFESTA X

The Leadership of the PNCR, having reviewed the current situation in Guyana, has seen no reason to change its position on CARIFESTA X as outlined in its Press Statement on April 24, 2008 and subsequent statements on May 23, June 20 and July 4, 2008. Consequently, the PNCR will lend no credibility or legitimacy to the present activities of the Jagdeo Administration and will not participate in any State Sponsored or Ceremonial event for CARIFESTA X.

On April 10, 2008, the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) stated that the current political, economic and social environment was not conducive to the hosting of CARIFESTA X. In that statement the Party said,

Carifesta X is scheduled to take place in August. The Jagdeo Administration therefore has more than ample time to address these critical matters so that the appropriate environment can be created for the holding of this event. The First Carifesta was hosted proudly and successfully by Guyana under the PNC Administration led by Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham. The event was created to celebrate, display and promote Caribbean Culture. The Party therefore has a vested interest in ensuring that the event is not misused by the Political Administration or takes place in circumstances in which its cultural essence is tainted by the consequences of the dictatorial policies of the Jagdeo Administration.

Carifesta X must be held in an environment in which the Constitutional right to Freedom of Expression and the right to work are respected by the Government. There must be an immediate end to the suspension of the licence of CNS TV Channel 6; an end to the violation of the human rights of the citizens of Guyana; the release of Oliver Hinckson from Prison where he has been incarcerated on unsustainable charges and his trial being continuously postponed; an immediate short term programme to address the impact of the rising cost of living on the citizens of this country; real progress in addressing the deteriorating security situation; the enactment of Broadcast Legislation to end political control over the media and to establish an Independent National Broadcasting Authority; equitable access by the Parliamentary Opposition Parties to the state own media; and, an end to the Monopoly on Radio.

Any decent Government should find no difficulty in creating the appropriate environment if, indeed, they are anxious to highlight Guyana to the Caribbean and the world.

The Party also stated that it would remain resolute until the Jagdeo Administration satisfactorily addresses the issues of concern. Regrettably, instead of addressing those concerns, the Jagdeo regime expended millions more than their original secret budgetary allocation of $500M on a massive publicity and PR campaign to market the event.

The reality is that the Jagdeo Administration, without any prior consultation with other Stakeholders in Guyana, including the Opposition Political Parties, unilaterally proceeded with the hosting of CARIFESTA X without addressing those major concerns of the majority of Guyanese. It is also very evident that the Government has no intention of addressing the issues of equitable access to state media, broadcast legislation, the state radio monopoly and the issue of good governance.

In the above circumstances the Leadership of the PNCR will not participate in any state sponsored event for CARIFESTA X.

Meanwhile, we welcome all artistes from the Caribbean and the Diaspora and wish them a pleasant stay in our beautiful country. You can be assured of our traditional Guyanese hospitality even in circumstances where the Jagdeo Regime refuses to respect the human rights and freedoms as enshrined in the Constitution of Guyana.

Peoples National Congress Reform
Congress Place, Sophia
Georgetown, Guyana.
Thursday August 21, 2008

Visit our website @ www.guyanapnc.org

By supererro
Friday, August 22, 2008

you know what really grinds my gears?
ok people lesten to this ok, it nothing bout the truth!

Why the Government not sending alot of people to the games?
Here is what no body will tell you.
Too many Brothers are taking part in sports,
They don't like that.

2/ They taking all of out parents and Grand parents TAX money and spending it on they Indian Festival CareFesta! Well the Indians on this Website don't feel no way,you guys are cool.
What the Hell! Can somebody please give me the Meaning for that word.

What Did U mean By (B.O)?

To the people of linden
I have a dream, I'm trying to win this MEGA Million over here in the US
When I do get that money I'm comming home and create JOBS,Did u see I used an S right? Jobs.
We going to get linden as the leading town in Guyana again
And Im running for Mayor of the Town too.

Yes We can!
We need Hope!

Obama 08!
By silent lover
Thursday, August 21, 2008

I agree with Shyguy
I was watching olympics and I ain't see one guyanese get into the semifinal. How come we don't seem to be able to send much people to the Olympics, I'm sure that they are a lot of talented people out there.
I would have thought that there would be the results of our fellow guyanese on this website, but nothing.

By the way, thanks for the support you guys give me in wanting to help my peeps dem.
By sweetg
Thursday, August 21, 2008

WHAT GRINDS MY GEARS
silent lover I like this.. I got one.

I got a question, what is up with the B.O. (AND I DON'T MEAN BARAK OBAMA) in Guyana? I love ya'll but dammit why do the brothas down there smell so friggin bad. SOAP, WATER, JESUS.

I love my country and my Guyanese men, would go home in a heart beat if I could. Can't wait to go back.
By Roses1
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Promoting and supporting our own
How come this so call LINDEN PREMIER WEBSITE dont support Lindens over achievers. No mention on this site about our only female 2 times Olympian Marian Burnett our 8 starting GOLDEN JAGUARS, Collie Hercules, Charles Pollard, Randolph Jerome, Kaiodey McKinnon, Quacy Johnson, Richard Reynolds, Howard Low, and Carey Harris. Y is guymine.com refusing to endorse Lindens own? I think they are part of the government conspiracy to keep Linden underdeveloped. They copy the linden news from the news papers to keep us from reading about the happenings around the country. They ignore the good things about Linden and promote all the dancehall queens and kings like if that is what Linden is all about. Y gUyMiNe.cum
By ShyGuy
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

re: silent lover
Silent lover you really funny this was a nice one i guest money talk and bull*&%# walk.
By amen-ra-ta
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

you know what really grimes my gears?
they say the people in Guyana are poor and an avrage make $5us a day.
But I don't believe that because to me people living in Guyana must have apt of money.

I went to G.P.O to get my Birth Certificate when I finish filling out the forms the woman toon me to come back to 5 days.
When I was about to leave the building my friend told me Boi is Guyana u deh u have to give them people something if you really want that birthcertificate
So I went back to the woman and Bless her with a lil small piece.
Hey Money really get power in Guyana boi the lady minimize 5 days to 15minutes.

I get a next one
Me brother decided that we want to work taxi in linden so he was telling me he have to get his license so I said to him that's a good idea.
So I went on to ask him how long you have to go to school for because in NewYork u have to attent a 5hrs class.
My brother said School! Boi this is Guyana if u get the money you get yah license
2 days after I see me brother with a drivers License and he don't even know how to drive.

Hey people living in Guyana especially linden yah'll get Money yeh.

I love my country and can't wait to go home back
By silent lover
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

still lookin!
when are we goin to be able to see the jamzone pics?
By ms miami
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

IM PROUD
I WISH OTHER YOUTHS LIKE ME CAN DO SOMETHING TO UP KEEP THEIR ENVIRONMENT. I DONT LIVE IN THE FESTIVAL CITY AREA BUT I FELT PROUD CLEANING THE DRAINS FOR CARIFESTA.
INSTEAD OF DOING THINGS THAT IS AGANIST THE LAW DO SOMETHING USEFUL.'DIG A DRAIN', I LOOK CUTE DOING IT.
JOIN A LEO CLUB OR ANY OTHER ORG.

By juanita
Sunday, August 17, 2008

PRIME MINISTER????
Not President? I'm shocked!!! No offense Lightskin.
I have to say, I agree with much that's been said lately. Its interesting how not only protecting the local business man/woman will safeguard the economy but opening our country as a place for outsourced businesses would do so as well. Little islands like Barbados and Trinidad have large companies like Sprint and Blue Cross/Blue Shield's customer services departments outsourced there. If you call Sprint for customer service, the person you're speaking with might very well be in the Caribbean but because of Guyana's poor infrastructure, companies don't trust that this English speaking country with of the most intelligent people can provide consistent services without stupid things like Blackouts, and brownouts, interruption of internet access etc. Our country is being left out of amazing opportunity because our government and all its utility services are such corrupt individuals and are all for sale. Nothing is being invested in the infrastructure of our country.
As for dissing or complaining about our country. Know this; I would go home right now if I was offered the right opportunity. My husband is in full support of that and when the time comes, we will both do so. I talk about the issues of our country because like Lightskin said, a lot of people who use this forum have not set foot in Guyana in years, they're clueless and maybe, just maybe if we discuss what's going on down there, someone will say, "hey, I have this resource, I will help with that".
FYI, Im still trying to get the funds together to fix the Mackenzie Swimming Pool.
WEBMASTER
I had a professional photographer take pictures of the pool as it is now (people is freaking heart breaking). How about allowing me to post them here and raise some money to get it fixed. I will speak with some companies and others in Guyana who I'm sure will be willing to throw in their considerable resources. We can call this section of the site. RESTORE LINDEN. Just a thought!

By Roses1
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Lindo Creek Murder
What if the joint services thought that the miners the camp was the fineman gang and open fire killing then all. After the realise that they were the wrong people and decide to make it look like fineman gang.
By yackmon
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Apartheid Guyana
quote:
The new Teachers' College has been built, not as part of a general programme of building and construction, but to provide the environment, atmosphere and facilities conducive to the training of some of the nation's most important teachers.
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This institution found itself with a target on its back beginning in 1992, and has been under attack ever since. It is quite clear that progress in Guyana, is being steered to produce a replica of Fiji. People need to wake up and not allow selective amnesia to be the trojan horse of their subjugation. When it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is unequivocally a duck, and not a swan displaying beauty, majesty and benevolence.

By victoriaguy
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Isname Sayso

Come on ..silent lover wake up. You know the critics has no intention of returning to Guyana particularly if Student loans are involved.
By Isname Sayso
Saturday, August 16, 2008

IN THE VANGUARD
EXCERPTS from the Declaration of Sophia
(Forbes Burnham)

Revolutionising Our Educational System

As we husband and seek to develop and exploit our material resources for the benefit of our people, we must at the same time develop and in many cases, reorient, our human resources in the service of the nation.

The Party, through Government, has already begun the process of revolutionising the formal education system, a process aimed at eradicating the old colonial and capitalist valuers and introducing and emphasising new and relevant ones.

We have not been completely successful, for not only are the attitudes deep-rooted, but even those responsible for training in many cases need retraining. To this day, there are still some misguided teachers and lecturers who have no concept of and even resistant to the Co-operative. They prefer to inculcate in their wards, and emphasise, selfish individual objectives instead of those directed at the progress of the group, the community and the nation as a whole.

Ours Is a War

Further, it is not sufficiently appreciated that education and training in and out of the formal system are an integral part of the national development process. That explains why there are so many misfits whose energies and potential lie idle and unused so far as the national programme and objectives are concerned.

Ours is a war. It may not involve a clash of arms and the unleashing of weapons of destruction. But it is still a vital struggle - one against poverty, ignorance, unemployment, hunger and exploitation and we cannot afford the luxury of having uninvolved citizens, especially youth, who seek to get and not to give.

Outside of the formal education institutions, others like Trade Unions and co-operatives should be viewed as part of the total national education system. Our sponsorship and patronage of the co-operative in this regard must continue and must increase, and more public funds must and will be expended on trade union education, especially through the Critchlow Labour College.

Our Institutions

The new Teachers' College has been built, not as part of a general programme of building and construction, but to provide the environment, atmosphere and facilities conducive to the training of some of the nation's most important teachers.

National Service - Total Involvement

National Service, which has got off to an excellent start, is part of our total education system. The purpose and role of this Service have already been discussed and stated elsewhere and I do not propose to continue the discussion here. I shall satisfy myself with making three observations:

(1) The Service bestrides the whole society, involving youths in and out of formal schools - those who were formally referred to as delinquents and social outcasts, those in correctional institutions, and other adults.

(2) The response from the citizens has been most enthusiastic.

(3) The Service has been the object of congratulatory comments for its underlying objectives and philosophy, as well as for the performance of its members, these comments coming from a wide spectrum of Guyanese and non-Guyanese.

We Are in The Vanguard

As we meet here exactly ten years after the Party's accession to office, we must all feel that 1974, significantly, has been a good year. Faced with the economic crisis of the world arising from a rapid inflation of the prices of goods Guyana had to import, and the substantial increases we have had to pay for refined oil and other petroleum products, your Government was put to the test.

Fortunately our national thrust of feeding, clothing and housing the nation, started some years ago, came to our rescue in some respects.

Our ownership of the major bauxite undertaking nationalised in 1971 served us in good stead. The receipts from sales by Guybau boosted our foreign reserves, and the enhanced price of its products produced profits for the nation's use. Both the reserves and the profits would have gone elsewhere if Guybau were not nationally owned.

By superintending the marketing of sugar we were able to take advantage of the high prevailing international prices for that commodity and to contribute substantially to the national coffers from the levy imposed.

Our timber exports expanded and again we earned for Guyana, especially through the nationally owned Guyana Timbers Limited.

Rice in the context of a world food grain shortage contributed most significantly to the producers' and the country's economy.

Then our oil producing neighbours to whom I earlier made reference came to our assistance with loans when we needed them.

Your Party and Government introduced several restrictions and bans on un-necessaries to conserve foreign exchange. We explained to the people and received their understanding and firm support. They made the sacrifices and redoubled their efforts. At the same time, the nation's economy was carefully and competently managed. Eventually, not only were there no wholesale retrenchments, but rather there were increased employment opportunities available during the last six months to 1974.

We have even learnt that there is a sizeable surplus left on the Current Budget for this year while our foreign reserves are in a relatively healthy state.

Let us not, however, indulge in trumpet blowing and vacuous boasting. It is true that we have, for reasons well known, avoided the worst consequences of the international crisis. It is true that we are not faced with famine and a depleted treasury. It is true that we have been able to hold down inflation to what is a minimum in the circumstances. But the world crisis has not passed. In some countries it is deepening. We as a country are still vulnerable and can find ourselves in the same position as in January 1974. Guyana, moreover, is still a poor, developing country plague by unemployment.

We can fritter away our surplus and hope for manna from the skies in 1975 and the years to come. Some there are who would counsel the lifting of all the restrictions and bans so that they may satisfy their foreign luxurious tastes.

Instead, however, you will have noted that whatever surpluses there are will be spent on further development for the nation to expand and strengthen its economy and provide productive employment for the people.

Sacrifices and continuing dedicated effort are still, perhaps more, necessary if we are to build our dear Guyana. We are not yet out of the woods and we are far from achieving our development objectives. Our foreign reserves must not be used for unnecessary consumption of imported items and feckless travel around the globe. They must be deployed for the purchase of developmental goods to push further our programmes.

Every section of our nation must play its part and make its sacrifices. But Party Leaders and members must make the greatest sacrifices and undertake the heaviest, nay, superhuman, workloads. We are in the vanguard. We are leaders. There is no better way of leading than by example.

By supererro
Saturday, August 16, 2008

YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY GRINES MY GEARS?
TO: LIGHTSKIN & ROSES1.

looks like you two know's alot of what should be done to breed progress in Guyana.
I think Lightsking should run for Presiden and Roses1 should be Prime Minester.
That way Roses1 can get to educate the country about sex and maybe minimize the spread of HIV and AIDS.
By silent lover
Saturday, August 16, 2008

YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY GRINES MY GEARS?
It's funny, Wheneve i visit this site all I read about is what's going on in Guyana and what should be done.
Sounds like everybody have an idea but they are not doing anything.

By silent lover
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Creating jobs for women in Guyana
In France, the government vehemently protects its local industries by regulating and limiting the amount of foreign goods allowed into the country. In Guyana, we unfortunately do not have a government that does that. Thus, I honestly feel that Guyanese business people need to take matters into their own hands. My cousin is an esthetician in New York and has her own Spa in Queens. She is also in the process of creating her own line of natural Soaps and beauty products. One day as we were talking, she mentioned how many of the natural ingredients used to make toiletries can be found in Guyana. A light bulb came on in both in our heads and we thought about a future business venture in Guyana. We thought that it would be worthwhile to open a factory complex in Guyana for the creation of natural/organic soaps, clothing detergent, dish washing detergent, creams, lotions, shampoos etc. in order to market to Guyanese consumers. The name of our line of products would be Unity in Trinity and the logo for the company would feature three women: one East Indian, One African and One Amerindian, holding hands with one another. The logo will feature only women because only women will be hired to work in our factories. Women from the top to the bottom will run all aspects of this business and will be paid partly in cash and partly through credits that can be used to purchase only products that we create. In order to market our goods, we would advertise ourselves and promote other local products to the Guyanese public by buying local will be Guyana's only hope out of poverty. I would stress that buying my locally produced products and other locally produced products will bring Guyana out of poverty because each time you buy our products, you are keeping Guyanese employed. Since Guyana has less than a million people, I would like to diversify this business plan to eventually create even more jobs and quite possible employ 50% of the women in Guyana. Just a dream that I hope to realize one day.......................
By lightskin
Friday, August 15, 2008

Dissing Guyana
I do not think any Guyanese would set out to talk down their country, all we want is TRANSPARENCY in most actions that would tend to govern us.
At least 70% transparency
By Hya-Man
Friday, August 15, 2008

Lightskin
Go girl I am so inspired by your piece that I must say "thank you".
Guyanese should buy local if they want to stimulate the local economy, they should only buy the things that they cannot produce.
Over the years I have seen the quality of products that we produced and it's up to standard, but they are just foreign minded.
Let me give you one instance Sanata Textiles Limited used to produce cotton fabric dyed in orange, they used to export it to the Caribbean and the USA, Guyanese people in both the caribbean and the USa used to buy the same cloth and bring it back into Guyana
By Hya-Man
Friday, August 15, 2008

Guyana Sweet G
Its interesting how people have all these things to say about Guyana even though many had left the country donkey years ago and rarely ever go back. With an exception of Roses and a couple of others, most of the American based contributorsto this forum probably have not seen Guyana in twenty years but still feel they can speak with authority on the situation in Guyana. While news papers do give you some insight, it can not be a substitute for actually visiting Guyana and staying for extensive periods. I not to long ago came back from Guyana Sweet G and I must say that though some things in Guyana are improving: Georgetown is slowly becomming more modern, roads are being upgraded and even race relations seem to be improving somewhat, the overall state of Guyana is dismal. Thus I don't think most people on here who speak negatively of Guyana are doing so just to "dis" Guyana." Instead I think most are just venting their frustrations. However, I do agree with you that many of these "whiners", me included, should stop venting and start taking active measures to better the situation in Guyana. Now how do we can do that will take Guyanese Americans, Guyanese Canadians and Guyanese in the diaspora period to promote and invest in local industries so that the country can sustain itself and become independent of foriegn goods. Guyanese first and foremost have to be educated on the benifits of buying local. Buying local creates jobs for those producing goods on a domestic level. Instead of importing soap, detergents, basic clothing such as undergarmets, beauty products and so forth, Guyana can produce such items and thus create a market within the country to sell domestically made products. If there is a demand, their will be a need to hire workers to create the supply and thus meet the demand. This method will take people who are willing to convince the Guyanese masses that buying local will lift the country out of poverty. Comercials, Bill Boards etc will probably have to be made to drive this point home.
By lightskin
Friday, August 15, 2008

To..sweetg

Becoming a Teacher, is a good choice. But I pray, do major in proper grammar, as our kids need to be taught well.
By Isname Sayso
Friday, August 15, 2008

Isname Sayso is watching and reading
And tempted to respond
By Isname Sayso
Friday, August 15, 2008

sweetg
You got to be the most advanced reversed want-to-be-teacher Guyana has ever produced, when you finished your studies it so nice of you to want to go back home to teach, do you think we all want to be over, but it just the NICE situation in Guyana FORCED US TO BE HERE
By Hya-Man
Friday, August 15, 2008

Stop wining
I don't know y ya'll don't stop dissing Guyana when ya'll could do something to help dem out. when I finish school overseas I wanna come back and teach. Guyana is a nice place, it just has a lot of lazy people, ya'll might be some of them.
I'm proud to be a guyanese, I couldn't ask for a better place to grow up. We really know how to have fun.
So how about u join people like me who want to change Guyana for the better?
LOVE TO DEH GUYANESE NO MATTER WAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY ABOUT YA.
(I DON'T NORMALLY TALK LIKE DIS, SO, YES, I'M CAPABLE OF BECOMING AN ENGLISH TEACHER, IF U WERE WONDERING).
By sweetg
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Big Head
Man U got to be joking yuh ain't know that place full with thieves.
I am tired of U got to bribe someone to get something done which they are being paid to do.
By Hya-Man
Thursday, August 14, 2008

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