Jun 25, 2019 Features / Columnists, – Freddie Kissoon
There aren’t adjectives to describe the type of struggle that is currently taking place between the PNC+AFC and the PPP for power, since the ruling by the CCJ. But what do they do with this power? They do any and everything with it, except to use it to make Guyana a better place, to socially elevate the citizenry, develop a physically modern country.
People who fought with Cheddi Jagan participated conspiratorially in the building of a Marriott Hotel, costing over sixty million American dollars, when they knew that an international hotel was not one of the last things, but the very last thing a poor country like Guyana needed.
When that building was going up, a majority of Guyana’s streets were (and are still) without street lamps; the country’s only university had (still has) dilapidated laboratories; the main hospital in Georgetown was still way below a tenth rate hospital in the developed world; state-run schools were in a rundown state (they still are); the country was still getting frequent blackouts (they have increased over the years). Continue reading →
“The Real Guyana” – Guyana in 2013 -YouTube videos
Guyana has just celebrated 47 years of Independence. These are some of the videos that highlight the present dire situation in Georgetown and many other parts of Guyana. This Blog focuses on the positive and is neutral in Guyana’s politics, however the reality of Guyana’s social decay has to be aired.
Real Guyana – #1 – The Dirtiest Parliament Buildings – 2013
Published on Apr 11, 2013 by Real Guyana·
In Guyana, Parliamentary sessions are conducted inside air conditioned chambers whilst right outside, an ocean of filth radiates outwards.
Starting at the gate. Junkies, vagrants, mentally ill people, the disabled, destitute old people sleeping on cardboard, piles of garbage human excrement, rats, putrid drains and the stench of everything you just read with the faint whiff of curry coming from the cook-shop on the corner. Behind parliament, a garbage heap burns. Continue reading →
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