By Geoff Burrowes:
Mama, meh belly ah hu’t me
Send fo’ de doctor to fix me.
De doctor ah give me injection
to try an’ clear up my infection!
It’s been many years since this took place and I can’t remember the details clearly but I can remember my impressions very clearly!
For example I can’t remember what the sickness was but I remember that it was severe enough to allow me to skip school, which was good, but it was severe enough for my mother, Nancy Burrowes to call Dr. Sharples, our family doctor and a friend of my mum and dad’s and make an appointment for that afternoon. My dad came home for lunch and after gave me a ride to Dr. Sharples’ surgery which was on the ground floor of his family house which I think was at the corner of Anira and New Garden Sts. in Queenstown. Continue reading
Guyana: Infrastructure Projects: The Chinese are Coming – Opinion
The Chinese are coming with more and more strength in more places. Chinese companies are heading the pack for such juicy projects as the New Demerara Bridge, and the revived Amaila Falls Project, with more big multimillion projects most likely in the works. We make clear where we stand with Chinese companies coming here to do business.
We have serious problems with how the Chinese company responsible for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Expansion Project has delivered on its obligations. We are upset that it has been allowed to get away with the equivalent of contract murder, and then top it all off by insulting us. This has been done through more delays, more cost overruns, and more lame excuses. Government after government, and their respective ministers in charge of the airport project, have been pushed around, run over, and made fools of, without qualm or hesitation by officials of the Chinese company awarded the contract to modernise our international airport. Continue reading →
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