Just concluded reading an article in the Guyana Chronicle about the 178th anniversary of Victoria Village. My congrats to the villagers for their celebrations. But, the question lingers in my mind. Back in the 70's that village was renamed Melanie Damsahila after Prime Minister Forbes Burnham Daughter Melanie and Damsahila is an Amerindian word meaning village or community. So, have the citizens of Victoria seen the light and are they trying to erase Forbes Legacy.
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As I recall, the name Melanie Damishana replaced Elizabeth Hall. Victoria Village is a different place.
According to the Guyana Gazetteer, Melanie is 13 miles from GT. Victoria is 16.5 miles from GT.
Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
Django posted:Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
You hurt? I think Reza made a genuine mistake in confusing Melanie with Victoria. Fact is, both were Burnham stranglehold.
Django posted:Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
Django, rest your soul. Don't take everything as PPP political witch hunt. Reza just made an observation of what he recollected. Forbes is dead and gone but like any demagogue dictator, his name will always be associated with Guyana's dark days. Peace bro.
Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
You hurt? I think Reza made a genuine mistake in confusing Melanie with Victoria. Fact is, both were Burnham stranglehold.
Nah bhai,
periodically Burnham comes a live, in the older folks minds.
Django posted:Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
You hurt? I think Reza made a genuine mistake in confusing Melanie with Victoria. Fact is, both were Burnham stranglehold.
Nah bhai,
periodically Burnham comes a live, in the older folks minds.
Gilly does remember him too. One night I dreamt he was chatting with me. His hand on my shoulder. True story.
Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
You hurt? I think Reza made a genuine mistake in confusing Melanie with Victoria. Fact is, both were Burnham stranglehold.
Nah bhai,
periodically Burnham comes a live, in the older folks minds.
Gilly does remember him too. One night I dreamt he was chatting with me. His hand on my shoulder. True story.
You chatting with a DAAG, well glad was ONLY A DREAM!!!!!!!!!
skeldon_man posted:Django posted:Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
Django, rest your soul. Don't take everything as PPP political witch hunt. Reza just made an observation of what he recollected. Forbes is dead and gone but like any demagogue dictator, his name will always be associated with Guyana's dark days. Peace bro.
Cool bhai,
one time i was visiting the Botanical Gardens, with the kids and we stop by his Mausoleum.
I can't declare what was in my mind,it wasn't good.
Nehru posted:Gilbakka posted:Gilly does remember him too. One night I dreamt he was chatting with me. His hand on my shoulder. True story.
You chatting with a DAAG, well glad was ONLY A DREAM!!!!!!!!!
Yuh think I shouldda dream bout Viola?
Gilbakka posted:Nehru posted:Gilbakka posted:Gilly does remember him too. One night I dreamt he was chatting with me. His hand on my shoulder. True story.
You chatting with a DAAG, well glad was ONLY A DREAM!!!!!!!!!
Yuh think I shouldda dream bout Viola?
YUh Rass liked red meat nah.
Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
You hurt? I think Reza made a genuine mistake in confusing Melanie with Victoria. Fact is, both were Burnham stranglehold.
Nah bhai,
periodically Burnham comes a live, in the older folks minds.
Gilly does remember him too. One night I dreamt he was chatting with me. His hand on my shoulder. True story.
Gill,
have you met Burnham ?
Just asking.
the only time i saw him close up was when the Demerara Harbor Bridge opened we were walking from the West Bank side to East Bank,he was decked out in Military Uniform driving across the bridge in an open top car,me thinks it was a Bentley.
Gilbakka posted:Yuh think I shouldda dream bout Viola?
Viola was a good-looking and educated woman. Don't know why she put up with Fatboy's cheating.
Django posted:Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
You hurt? I think Reza made a genuine mistake in confusing Melanie with Victoria. Fact is, both were Burnham stranglehold.
Nah bhai,
periodically Burnham comes a live, in the older folks minds.
Gilly does remember him too. One night I dreamt he was chatting with me. His hand on my shoulder. True story.
Gill,
have you met Burnham ?
Just asking.
the only time i saw him close up was when the Demerara Harbor Bridge opened we were walking from the West Bank side to East Bank,he was decked out in Military Uniform driving across the bridge in an open top car,me thinks it was a Bentley.
My high school headmaster was an Indo PNC, and he tried to get the whole village to convert. He got Fatboy to visit the school, and asked me to put a 'mala' around him. I refused and they got another Indo gal.
Nehru posted:Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
You hurt? I think Reza made a genuine mistake in confusing Melanie with Victoria. Fact is, both were Burnham stranglehold.
Nah bhai,
periodically Burnham comes a live, in the older folks minds.
Gilly does remember him too. One night I dreamt he was chatting with me. His hand on my shoulder. True story.
You chatting with a DAAG, well glad was ONLY A DREAM!!!!!!!!!
Have respect for our past leaders!
Leonora posted:Gilbakka posted:Yuh think I shouldda dream bout Viola?Viola was a good-looking and educated woman. Don't know why she put up with Fatboy's cheating.
OK Viola ahmmm I mean Leonora.
Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
You hurt? I think Reza made a genuine mistake in confusing Melanie with Victoria. Fact is, both were Burnham stranglehold.
Remember that the guy is independent though he said that he does not like Jagdeo.
Leonora posted:Gilbakka posted:Yuh think I shouldda dream bout Viola?Viola was a good-looking and educated woman. Don't know why she put up with Fatboy's cheating.
You know when you point a finger at someone, there is always four pointing back at yourself. Remember the Clintons?
Django posted:Gill,
have you met Burnham ?
I never spoke to him directly though I was within a few feet away from him on many occasions. The last time I stood about 7 feet away from him on the balcony of Public Buildings, August 1, 1984. I was PPP rep on the Guyana Commemoration Commission set up to mark the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Boysie Ramkarran and I were there on behalf of the PPP.
It looks like this Melanie may have married a white man. I wonder how fat boy would have felt about this.
That's why you always point with the lolo
Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Gill,
have you met Burnham ?
I never spoke to him directly though I was within a few feet away from him on many occasions. The last time I stood about 7 feet away from him on the balcony of Public Buildings, August 1, 1984. I was PPP rep on the Guyana Commemoration Commission set up to mark the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Boysie Ramkarran and I were there on behalf of the PPP.
Django I just remember that one early morning in 1983 I was walking eastbound on David Street Kitty and Forbes was approaching on horseback. I said Good Morning and he said Morning. He was sharing cassava sticks.
Gilbakka posted:Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Gill,
have you met Burnham ?
I never spoke to him directly though I was within a few feet away from him on many occasions. The last time I stood about 7 feet away from him on the balcony of Public Buildings, August 1, 1984. I was PPP rep on the Guyana Commemoration Commission set up to mark the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Boysie Ramkarran and I were there on behalf of the PPP.
Django I just remember that one early morning in 1983 I was walking eastbound on David Street Kitty and Forbes was approaching on horseback. I said Good Morning and he said Morning. He was sharing cassava sticks.
Gilly,
The fish oil worked,
Forbes was sharing cassava sticks to City folks for planting in their back yards,Kabaka had vision,wondering what Granger will give out.
Django posted:Gilbakka posted:Django I just remember that one early morning in 1983 I was walking eastbound on David Street Kitty and Forbes was approaching on horseback. I said Good Morning and he said Morning. He was sharing cassava sticks.Gilly,
The fish oil worked,
Forbes was sharing cassava sticks to City folks for planting in their back yards,Kabaka had vision,wondering what Granger will give out.
Forbes didn't give Gilly a single cassava stick. One look at me and he figured: "This Indian looks like a sweet man; I won't waste one socialist stick on him."
Gilbakka posted:Django posted:Gilbakka posted:Django I just remember that one early morning in 1983 I was walking eastbound on David Street Kitty and Forbes was approaching on horseback. I said Good Morning and he said Morning. He was sharing cassava sticks.Gilly,
The fish oil worked,
Forbes was sharing cassava sticks to City folks for planting in their back yards,Kabaka had vision,wondering what Granger will give out.
Forbes didn't give Gilly a single cassava stick. One look at me and he figured: "This Indian looks like a sweet man; I won't waste one socialist stick on him."
AT the risk of being bombarded that I was PNC, I did shake his hand...maybe I can meet Nehru and shake his hand with the same hand
no one should post any thing with burham let the monster torment in hell
If I recall my younger brother used to hussle Roxanne Burnham, she is one of Forbes daughter. When they rebuilt Meten-Meer- Zorg public school Burnham came to cut the ribbon, he first visited my parent's house, had a snack and a drink,my father was the president of the PTA ,he asked me about the school coop, I was a teacher at the school. I must admit, he was a big imposing personality .
Django posted:Burnham,got to be resurrected to suit some folks agenda.
Why not? Jagdeo is prancing around defending the Burnham constitution, angered only by the fact that he isn't the president who is held above the law.
Leonora posted:Gilbakka posted:Yuh think I shouldda dream bout Viola?Viola was a good-looking and educated woman. Don't know why she put up with Fatboy's cheating.
She probably did her own cheating too. In fact got fabulously wealthy and powerful because of him. Even after Burnham died she was a power within the PNC until around 1989 when Hoyte was finally able to sideline her.
Gilbakka posted:Gilly does remember him too. One night I dreamt he was chatting with me. His hand on my shoulder. True story.
PNc boy had the same dream except the hand on the shoulder was just before he bent him over and gave him one of them cassava stick with fish oil as seasoning.
Drugb posted:Gilbakka posted:Gilly does remember him too. One night I dreamt he was chatting with me. His hand on my shoulder. True story.
PNc boy had the same dream except the hand on the shoulder was just before he bent him over and gave him one of them cassava stick with fish oil as seasoning.
Why is it that every day you salivate at the notion of some Indo man being sexually violated by a black man? Is this your fantasy?