GUYANA- Savannah Vacation – By Geoff Burrowes
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ere are some of my recollections from my dear land of Guyana
It is 1953, and I was 9 years old when a friend invited me to his father’s ranch in the Rupununi Savannah of Guyana, to spend the holidays.
His name was Peter Gorinsky and he was very different from the other boys in our neighbourhood. He was tall and lived next door only during the school term. The rest of the time he lived on his father’s ranch which was in the Rupununi Savannah, over 300 miles South of my town, Georgetown, the capital city of British Guyana (Now Guyana).
Most of my friends were, like myself, town boys and we took some of Peter’s tales as being tall and self-promoting. However his was a very different life as I was about to discover.
My parents agreed to the invitation and early one morning Richard King’s father pulled into our driveway. Richard was a teenager, a friend of Peter’s older brother Conrad, he was also going to spend the August holiday with the Gorinskys. Continue reading →
NRA Convention: Trump defends Second Amendment and Gun Ownership
Donald Trump says London hospital is like ‘war zone’ because of knife crime
At NRA event, Trump defends gun ownership by referring to ‘blood all over the floors’ at unnamed London hospital
By: David Smith The Guardian. UK
Trump at NRA Convention 2018
Donald Trump on Friday (May 4, 2018), fuelled fears of a knife crime epidemic in London by comparing a hospital in the city to “a war zone”, with blood all over the floors.
The US president, addressing the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Dallas, made the inflammatory comments two months before he is due to make his first visit to the UK.
Using a familiar conservative argument to defend gun ownership, Trump asked sarcastically whether vans, trucks and cars, which have been used by terrorists, should be banned. Then he turned to knives. READ MORE
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