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Guyana: Dolling Up for the Year-End Festivities – by Rosaliene Bacchus

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Photo by Inga Seliverstova on Pexels.com

December was the most hectic month for my stay-at-home working Mom. As a sought-after dressmaker among middle-class women in the capital, Georgetown, Mom had little time for Christmas shopping, home decoration, and preparation of our traditional Christmas dinner specialties. Guyanese love to party. The Christmas and year-end festivities meant parties galore: office parties, nightclub parties, and house parties. The greatest fete of all was the Old Year’s Night Ball to welcome in the New Year with a bang.

As early as October, to ensure that their dresses were done on time, Mom’s clients who had several functions to attend would start bringing in their dress materials. For the Old Year’s Night Ball, no expense was spared when choosing the best imported fabrics.      Continue reading

Guyana: Businessman and Social Media Personality, Bryan Max, Applauded for Breaking Down Kingston Beach Barricade in Georgetown

The Kingston Beach behind Marriott Hotel and Pegasus Hotel in Georgetown, Guyana, South America

A well-known Georgetown businessman and social media personality, Bryan Max, has been acclaimed a national hero for forcefully removing a barricade that prevented citizens from accessing the Kingston Beach from the Battery Road entrance behind Pegasus Hotel in Georgetown, Guyana, South America.

A TicTok video uploaded on Facebook  on 3rd of November by Bryan Max shows him turning in to Battery Road at the entrance to Kingston Beach behind Pegasus. On the way there, he explains that he was going to see if the barricade, which was allegedly erected by the management of the Pegasus Hotel, was still there.            Continue reading

Lessons from Nature: Adapting to Change – by Rosaliene Bacchus

New post on Three Worlds One Vision

by the Rosaliene Bacchus Blog

Section of my succulent garden

The succulent plants in my garden brighten my life. During humanity’s mad dash towards the abyss, their quiet dynamic presence calm my troubled mind. Under California’s scorching sunshine that set dry brush ablaze, my succulent plants have found a way to survive the extreme heat. Some change color; others become more compact in form.

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A Simple Man” – Poem by Caribbean Poet Ian McDonald

FRONT COVER: PEOPLE OF GUYANA BY IAN MCDONALD AND PETER JAILALL
PHOTO CREDIT: MIDDLEROAD PUBLISHERS/CANADA

My Poetry Corner October 2019 features the poem “A Simple Man” by Ian McDonald from the joint poetry collection, People of Guyana, by Ian McDonald and Peter Jailall. Born in the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1933, Ian McDonald is a poet, novelist, dramatist, and non-fiction writer. After moving to then British Guiana in 1955, he made his home there. Today, he lives partly in his adopted homeland and partly in Canada.      Continue reading

The Decade of the Forties in British Guiana (Guyana) – By the late Godfrey Chin + video

The Decade of the Forties in British Guiana (Guyana)

Godfrey Chin Website Link

Godfrey Chin – “Nostalgias”

By the late Godfrey Chin

While some of this was before our time, we may have heard some of the stories from our parents or grand-parents!

Please feel free to share – Ya thin it easy! The Decade of the Forties – like milk – can truly be called ‘half and half. During the first half, the World on the Road to Ruin – the second half was on the Road to Recovery. In my Homeland British Guyana, the Forties was ‘Our Age of Innocence’.       Continue reading

Hadfield Street to Stabroek Square | Walk with me in Georgetown – video by Raphael

Hadfield Street to Stabroek Square | Walk with me in Georgetown – video by Raphael

Published on May 1, 2017 

Walk with me from Hadfield Street to Stabroek Square. Explore behind the Parliament buildings and the Stelling behind the Stabroek Market.

Reds announces retirement from First-Class cricket Commentary

Reds announces retirement from First-Class cricket Commentary

By Sean Devers
Born on May 30, 1939 in the Riverain Community of Pomeroon in Region 2, Essequibo,

Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira speaks to the Media at the Tower Hotel

Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira speaks to the Media at the Tower Hotel

Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira has progressed from humble beginnings and overcome several hurdles including a stroke in Australia to become Guyana’s best Radio Cricket Commentator and a household name around the World.

On December 8, 2016 at the Tower Hotel in Georgetown, Guyana, the 77-year-old Perreira, his silver locks shimmering in the bright morning sunshine, officially announced his retirement from First-Class cricket commentary to bring an end to an iconic career on the Microphone where it all began in 1961 in Guyana at Rose Hall Canje where he made his debut on Radio when British Guiana played Trinidad & Tobago.     Continue reading

Broadcasting propelled British Guiana into the 20th Century – By Hubert Williams

BROADCASTING PROPELLED BG  INTO  THE  20TH CENTURY

By  Hubert  Williams

Hugh Cholmondelry and Hubert Williams

Hugh Cholmondeley and Hubert Williams

It was like magic transformed in Georgetown (the then rustic seaside colonial capital of overwhelmingly white-painted wooden buildings on stilts) that citizens could be in their homes or walking on the streets and hearing their own people talking to them, telling familiar stories and presenting general information along with the British music they adored.

Broadcasting had at last come to British Guiana, the lone English colony on the northeast coast of the South American continent, presenting citizens with an open window to the world and widespread relief from the trauma of the recently ended First World War (1914-1918) which took an estimated 17 million lives (20 million wounded), including some of their own countrymen.     Continue reading

Georgetown City Hall workers challenged to work harder

Capitol TV logoCity Hall workers challenged to work harder

In Guyana, a Land Dispute With Venezuela Escalates Over Oil – NY Times article

New York Times Article – BY WILLIAM NEUMAN

In Guyana, a Land Dispute With Venezuela Escalates Over Oil

Venezuela has long insisted it owns everything west of the Essequibo River, including the Guyanese town of Bartica, in a battle that intensified after an oil discovery.

BARTICA, Guyana — At a little tin-roofed beer joint on the west bank of the Essequibo River, Rawle Huggins relaxed on a wooden bench and considered his tiny country’s escalating border spat with its much bigger neighbor, Venezuela.

“Here is Guyana,” said Mr. Huggins, a sometime gold miner, referring to the land beneath him and everything around it. “I don’t live in Venezuela. I live in Guyana. They live,” he added, gesturing beyond the jungle that fringes the town, “over there.”   Continue reading

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