Stabroek News – By Vibert Cambridge – September 19, 2021
A Preliminary Exploration of the Social History of Nonalcoholic Carbonated Beverages in Guyana (1870–2020).
On February 23, 1970, Guyana adopted a Republican constitution and became the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. This signaled a substantial shift in governance and the adoption of a new economic paradigm. By 1970, Banks DIH had emerged as the dominant player in Guyana’s sweet drink marketplace. Its bottling plant was new, and the company had a robust national distribution system with storage bonds in New Amsterdam, Linden (formerly Mackenzie), and Bartica, as well as on the Essequibo Coast.
By the 1970s, cakeshops and cakeshop–salt goods shops, rather than soda fountains (as anticipated by the U.S. consul in 1924), were the primary outlets for nonalcoholic carbonated beverages. Cakeshop–salt goods shops were at almost every intersection in the urban areas. Cakeshops and grocery outlets were in every village and settlement in the rural areas. A variant was also evident in many hinterland settlements. Most of these businesses were connected to the Banks DIH distribution network. This distribution infrastructure was used to deliver a fortified food: Puma, a product that evoked fond memories for many Guyanese, even in 2020.
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Also tagged Banks DIH, Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)., Clifford Reis, Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Guyana: Sweet Drink - The Puma Presence - By Vibert Cambridge, Guyanese Online
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September 12, 2021 – By Vibert Cambridge
Tie-in marketing is an approach in which a company purposefully creates an association between the company, its products or services, and whatever is trending or hot in the collective consciousness at that moment. Since 1956, the hot beverage in British Guiana has been Banks Beer. In 1955, under the slogan “people’s capitalism,” Peter D’Aguiar launched the public company Banks Breweries Ltd, the first brewery in British Guiana. It made good sense as an import substitution. Beer and other malted beverages had previously been imported. Substantial amounts of beer, ale, and stout were consumed in the hot and humid colony.
The term
“people’s capitalism,” although seemingly oxymoronic, was brilliant in the context of the political jargon of the time. Share price was BG$1. This allowed working-class people to invest in the company.
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Also tagged - By Vibert Cambridge, “people’s capitalism, ”, Banks Breweries Ltd, British Guiana, GUYANA: The Sweet Drink Wars Prestige competitions: Tie-ins - By Vibert Cambridge, Guyanese Online, Wieting and Richter
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Magazine: Guyanese of Portuguese Ancestry Magazine – Published in 2012
Read it / Download: A VOZ Magazine -2012
The persons on the cover of this magazine are:
1st row: Peter D’Aguiar, Sister Noel Moniz, Jerry Goveia of Roraima Airways, June Mendez who is the owner of Farfan & Mendez, Chris Fernandes.
2nd row: Dave Martins, Mark Vieira of Houston (son of Paula Vieira married to young Joe), Old Francis Dias of JP Santos, Gail Teixeira an MP.
3rd row: Reds Perreira, Alfro Alphonso, Nicolette Fernandes (Bobby’s daughter), Fr Malcolm Rodrigues, Kit Nascimento.
Front row: Mike Correia the CEO of the Correia group, Kirk Jardine, Amanda St Aubyn.
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Also tagged Alfro Alphonso, Amanda St Aubyn, Chris Fernandes, Dave Martins, Download: A VOZ Magazine -2012, Fr. Malcolm Rodrigues, Gail Teixeira an MP., Guyanese Online, Jerry Goveia of Roraima Airways, June Mendez who is the owner of Farfan & Mendez, Kirk Jardine, Kit Nascimento. Front row: Mike Correia the CEO of the Correia group, Magazine: Guyanese of Portuguese Ancestry Magazine - Published in 2012, Mark Vieira of Houston (son of Paula Vieira married to young Joe), Nicolette Fernandes (Bobby's daughter), Old Francis Dias of JP Santos, Portuguese in Guyana, Reds Perreira, Sister Noel Moniz
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… All are involved, all are consumed – By Eusi Kwayana – IN THE DIASPORA
eusi Kwayana
– March 25, 2019 – Stabroek News
Is there any doubt that political leadership in Guyana as in other countries like Venezuela, Britain, India, Pakistan, Congo and Nigeria needs to be born again? I am closer to the situation in Guyana. A no confidence motion is nothing vicious – the traditional no confidence motion of December purported to end the Coalition, elected with its one seat majority in 2015. The Court of Appeal decision is now subject to a final judicial hearing before the Caribbean Court of Justice by the parties concerned.
In 2011, the one seat majority of the PPP/C dodged this procedure by not following an important parliamentary convention. Using statecraft, it avoided debate and instead prorogued the parliament without explanation for an uncomfortably long period. That government was defeated in 2015 by a coalition with another one-seat majority. Continue reading →
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Also tagged Ayube Edun, Bechu, Caribbean Court of Justice, Cheddi Jagan, Forbes Burnham, Gertie Wood, Guyana Politics: Political leadership and national stability - Commentary By Eusi Kwayana, Halliman, hubert nathaniel critchlow, Martin Carter- “all are involved all are consumed.”, Mr. Ralph Ramkarran, Quamina, Stephen Campbell, The Court of Appeal - Guyana, Walter Rodney, winner take-all politics., Working People’s Alliance
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This Elderly Gentleman Welcomes AGE EIGHTY – by Francis Quamina Farrier
Francis Quamina Farrier
Please permit me to inform you that on March 12, 2018, I celebrated my Eightieth Birthday. I am hard pressed to realize it, since it seems to me as though it was only last year that I celebrated my 18th birthday. Now here I am at eighty years of age!
Goodness, Gracious, me! So it gives me great pleasure to relate to you, just a few of the things which happened in British Guiana/Guyana and the rest of the World, during the early and later portions of the past eight decades, and which I enjoy talking about from time to time. Continue reading →
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Also tagged "The Tides of Susanburg", Ashton Chase, Cheddi Jagan, Forbes Burnham, Guyanaese Online, Guyanese Online, hubert nathaniel critchlow, Jainarine Singh, Jane Phillips Gay, Janet Jagan, Joseph Pollydore, Richard Ishmael, Sydney King (now Eusi Kwayana), This Elderly Gentleman Welcomes AGE EIGHTY - by Francis Quamina Farrier
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From the Diaspora…Kaldor Budget and Black Friday February 16, 1962
Mr. Forbes Burnham dealt with the harsh tax measures introduced by what was known as the Kaldor Budget and ended his speech by working on the emotions of his audience in the manner of Mark Anthony. “Comrades,” he exclaimed, “the fight starts now. Tomorrow at 2 o’clock in the afternoon there is a demonstration organized by the Trade Union Congress, a demonstration against the harsh proposals of the budget, which make life unbearable.
“No doubt the Riot Squad will be there. Do you still want to go? Comrades, remember that tomorrow Jagan’s army is coming down from Cane Grove and Windsor Forest. Do you still want to go? (Wynn Parry Commission).”
Thus started a series of events on February 12, 1962 that led to the burning and looting of several businesses in Georgetown on what is now described as Black Friday February 16, 1962.
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Also tagged Black Friday, Cold War, David Granger, dishonest businessmen, Dr. Charles Ramkissoon Jacobs, Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Forbes Burnham, Georgetown fires- 1962, Guyana Online, Guyanese Online, import duty, Kaldor Budget, minimum income tax, Ralph Seeram, Ray Charles - Hit the Road Jack, United Force, Wynn Parry Commission
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Recording Guyanese political history: Memory, `archives’ and narrative overlook
By Nigel Westmaas
This essay is concerned about the politics of memory. As Guyana’s newest political (elections) season unfurls there will be numerous references to events, concepts and phrases that support attendant political narratives, that is, Guyanese political history as mainly defined by the two mass political parties that have been at the helm of the country’s political life since 1953. This contemporary concentration on a convenient nomenclature of Guyana’s political history that devolves primarily on the narrative of the two dominant political forces is hardly surprising given the grasp these organisations have held on national political consciousness up to this point.
The nomenclature of events and concepts by which the two main political parties (the PPP and PNC) define and control the narrative of “modern” Guyanese politics include: the “1950s” and “1960s”; “Disturbances”; Feed, Clothe and House the nation”; Enmore Martyrs”, “First Past the Post “ system; ”Sun Chapman” and the preceding Wismar incidents; “ Power-sharing”; “rigged elections”; “Partition”; “Proportional representation”; and “paramountcy of the party”. These favourites in the local political lexicon, as important as they are separately and collectively, sometimes uncritically legalize the philosophy and actions of one main party or the other in the representation of Guyana’s political history. This dominance leaves in its wake silences or ill attendance to other political narratives, past and present and the need for a thoughtful search for an improvement in our political narrative and culture. [more]
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Also tagged “Disturbances”;, “Partition”, “Proportional representation”, ”Sun Chapman”, Cheddie Jagan, Forbes Burnham, Guyanese political history, Nigel Westmaas, nmore Martyrs”, paramountcy, PPP and PNC), Wismar incidents
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Guyana: Sweet Drink – The Puma Presence – By Vibert Cambridge
Stabroek News – By Vibert Cambridge – September 19, 2021
A Preliminary Exploration of the Social History of Nonalcoholic Carbonated Beverages in Guyana (1870–2020).
On February 23, 1970, Guyana adopted a Republican constitution and became the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. This signaled a substantial shift in governance and the adoption of a new economic paradigm. By 1970, Banks DIH had emerged as the dominant player in Guyana’s sweet drink marketplace. Its bottling plant was new, and the company had a robust national distribution system with storage bonds in New Amsterdam, Linden (formerly Mackenzie), and Bartica, as well as on the Essequibo Coast.
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