@Ali Khan Azad posted:The closest Guyana ever came to communism was under Burnham.
1. Free education from primary to University (with the exception of school uniforms and GEC/CXC fees). Many people did not value it. When Hoyte introduced University fees and told students to borrow loans from the banks. People almost shit grease.
2. Rice flour was a very good thing. But not 100 percent rice flour. Stuff falls apart. They should have mixed the rice flour with wheat flour to keep items together.
Well I am grateful..I grad high sch 1976 so I didnt get much benefit there..but UG!!
actually it was a set back for me as i couldn’t purchase textebooks for Physics or Add Maths ..n 2nd hand was impossible to find.
A kind classmate offered to lend me his Physics text every wed n another invited me to her home on weekends where i got to use her text n I even got a B at Olevels ,
but my tr advised me not to go for Add Maths if couldnt get a book of my own..as i needed to practice a lot..
UG ..wow!! What can I say ?…not only was it free(apart from registration n library fees n cost of books)
i got a stipend that was more than the salary i got as sec sch teacher .($195/ month..teaching as unqualified assistant salary was $166)
it was enough for me to pay rent n light bill n for transportation as well as FOOD!
All it ‘cost’ me was 2 months of national service (which i completed in the credit union office in Brickdam)..
…also because of my free education at UG (medical Laboratory Technology) I could have got a scholarship to study medicine inCuba as many many folks from the lab got these scholarships. Actually this was-my reason for doing Med Tech. But I later changed my mind abt becoming a Dr after wrking at PHG n seeing wht the conditions were n also wht the life of a Dr looked like ..I was more than happy to remain a MLT ..loved my job then n after 47 yrs..i still love it..NO REGRETS!
yes lot of bad things happened during LFSB reigning days..
but whn it comes to EDUCATION..i benefited n will forever be grateful
my dad died whn I was 17 ..there isno way i would have afforded to attend UG with no financial support
I have been in medical lab since 1977..worked in the islands including Grand Cayman at Govt Hospital , which was Grade A lab under US Lab Corp . My UG education was accepted!
ps at 65 , i am still working in. Medical lab here in Canada ..
so if LFSB did 99 bad things..1 good thing for me was FREE EDUCATION
( i even went back 1988-89 to do my speciality in Hematology n grad with distinction..tutors were Cuba. That was another good thing..the arrangement wehad with Cuba where they sent top notched medical specialists to GY …from Pathologits, Microbiologists, Hematologist, Pediatrician, surgeons , ENTs etc etc..)
abt rice flour..
true ..we needed to work on the recipes..the bread was too dry!!
I do buy the rice noodles (vermicelli )