GUYANA: Georgetown Under Water from Heavy Rains- ” Like Never Before” – Video
Drive with me through the streets of Georgetown and see the effects of the flooding. Also see an aerial view of the city of Georgetown.
Guyanese Online: Editor’s Note:
For over 200 years Demerara was a Dutch colony, along with Essequibo and Berbice. They designed sturdy sea defences, and built a series of canals to drain the land after heavy rains. Their canal systems were inherited by the British after 1814 when the Dutch colonies were ceded to Britain creating British Guiana. However, over the last 200 years, many of the canals were filled in to make roads or are not properly maintained to ensure optimum drainage. Continue reading
Commentary: STEEL MEN – Setting the record straight! – By Dave Martins
When you live a long life as I have, in some ways, because of the huge amount of passing time involved, the limits of the brain will come into play and you forget chunks – sometimes trivia, but also very important pieces – of what you went through or learned or overcame, and it takes a remark from a friend, or a reference you see in the press, to remind you of an episode, or even a response to a song, in your own life that should have great relevance for you. My musician friend George Jardim, here in Guyana, often comes up with a reference to something, or some aspect of something, that hits me like a slap in the face. “Oh rant, budday…I had forget all about dat.” Continue reading →
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