The second sentence should read "i am not requesting Amral and whom so ever to cancel my immediately membership."  Sorry about the typo.   

Enjoy yuh coconut water and hammock and that fresh breeze coming off the Atlantic

Nothing like that anywhere else 

You will be missed. You are a voice of reason who is not afraid to speak the truth.

Hey Zed, Amral is here until June 1st. Please hang around for a bit more... lets see what happens on the recount. 

Zed, staying around for bit longer; perhaps June/July; may be apt.

I am presently in my hammock, enjoying it. So, I will remain a reader and not posting here. Thanks for the suggestions. Tide is coming in, the breeze is blowing and as I contemplate the pandemic, I am wondering whether good Guyana rum will be a good thing to prevent catching it. 

Why should we be forced to live like this?

Dear Editor,
We are a group of women who have begun to come together to discuss the burdens weighing on us. So far, we are pensioners, women on public assistance, domestic workers and security guards. Our ages range from 29 to 82.
We are some of the women in Guyana with the lowest incomes – from mothers who get no wages to mothers on public assistance who get $4,900 a month to old age pensioners who receive $6600 a month to domestic workers and security guards, who are sometimes paid as low as $2500 – $3000 a week or $12000 a month.
Those of us who are mothers are sometimes forced to leave our children unsupervised and unprotected for long hours to do work for money. These jobs sometimes take us miles away from our homes, often times against our will. But even as we go the extra mile to ensure the survival of our families, we hear that we are bad mothers who neglect our children. Most of us would prefer to stay at home and raise our children. As mothers struggling to help our children survive we already have too much work.  Mothers in poor households work the longest hours in any given day. Some of us are on duty for up to 16 – 22 hours a day with little or no leisure time.  We don’t need more work. We go out to do more work because it is the only way we can get some money. We are fed up of having to choose between feeding our children and sending them to school or being there to look after them.
Why should we be forced to live like this?
Those of us on public assistance are women with disabilities or who are caring for a relative with a disability. We have to do the extra work of coping with homes and minibuses and public places and streets that are never designed with us in mind. Those of us who are caring for a relative with a disability have to put in the extra hours to tend to the special needs of that person and still find the time to tend to our own needs. This is the work we do for a monthly income of $4,900. If we don’t have anyone to collect this money for us, some of us spend half and sometimes close to the whole amount in passage to collect the money. We often prefer to leave the money to pile up for a few months before going to collect it in order to be able to get a lump sum – but even as we do this we have to be prepared to forego a lot of our needs while we wait for the money to accumulate.
Why should we be forced to live like this?
Those of us who are pensioners have made our contribution to this economy and are still making it. Some of us had jobs. All of us did voluntary work in our communities and many of us still do it. All of us did the work of caring for ourselves, spouses, grandchildren, other
relatives, neighbours and friends and are still doing so even in our retired stage but this time with even more difficulties.  The meager pension of $6,600 a month with which we are struggling to feed and protect ourselves and those we have to care for can’t begin to meet our expenses. One of us has to pay a rent of $6,000 per month. What is left of the monthly pension is $600. How can we survive on this?  Another one of us pays a rent of $3,000 per month and is therefore forced to walk to and from home to a church daily from Monday to Friday just to be able to get some food. On weekends and holidays, especially the long August holidays, and Christmas season, she has to find her own food. Another one of us has a sick husband to care for but has to steal some time to go to her grandchild’s school with sliced mangoes to sell at a low cost of $20 a slice, and then go home and sell snacks on a little tray in the front of her yard in order to get a little more money to eat. Some of us live in a home for the elderly where the rent is sometimes half or the whole of what we collect as pension – it depends on which room you get. Not only that the conditions under which we live are unbearable. When it rains, it is impossible not to get wet in the kitchen while we cook and there are other repairs that need to be done but the landlord is not doing them. We dare not withhold the rent because we would be thrown out in the street.  These are just small examples of our huge struggle for survival.
Why should we be forced to live like this?
Those of us who are security guards are forced to work under very dangerous and unhealthy conditions. Most times we are sent to work at sites that are desolate with merely a baton as a defense. We most often have no toilet facilities, which lead to us venturing further into the already desolate area when nature calls. We work long hours, 12 hours and even 18 hours when there is no one to relieve us. Sometimes we opt to work the hours just to be able to earn a little extra money.
Those of us who are domestic workers have to wash, clean, cook, iron and sometimes care  for a child or an older or sick person  in other people’s homes for very little money. Some of us get as low as $4,500 per week out of which we have to pay transport.
Sometimes we are employed to do a specific chore but gradually other chores are added but our wage remains the same.
Why should we be forced to live like this?
November 25 was International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Ending domestic violence is very important to us, but we are grieved that so many women who are better off fail to recognize and acknowledge the other kinds of violence which we suffer but they do not suffer with us. They do not even seem to know that the economic violence which we live with is as destructive as domestic violence, and that so often, if we suffer this economic violence, we are subject to other violence – not only domestic but in general, including from employers, the police, doctors and all kinds of professionals who think we don’t count if we have no money to count or to give them.
We are all tired of the conditions under which we are forced to live.
We Want: –
For those of us who are old age pensioners and people with disabilities:
· Free transport. Mini bus drivers very often don’t want to pick us up. They say we move too slowly and we can’t take loud music.
· Better arrangements at the post offices for those of us who have to go there to collect our pensions and public assistance money. No more standing for hours in long lines (sometimes before 6 am just to get an early space) in the yard and in rain. Some of us go there without eating and those of us who eat before we go get hungry after spending such lengthy time in the lines. Those of us receiving public assistance for ourselves or the people we are caring for who have permanent disabilities should not be made to go through the hassle of being reviewed every six months.
For those of us who are security guards:-
· Safe and sanitary worksites. No more unprotected, desolate sites, no more being forced to wander into the bushes when nature calls. Reliefs must be on time; no more working for 18 or even 12 hours at a time.  When we sign off from this job we still have to do the job waiting at home.
For those of us who are domestic workers:-
· No more adding on of tasks we are not employed to do. Proper recognition for the importance of the work we do and a respectful salary, decent meals and rest breaks in the day.  We are not machines.
For all of us: –
· A living income. We are fed up of worrying about what else we can do to survive from day to day. We are fed up of this hand to mouth living. The government and the business
people who decide how much money we should get, can’t live on the amounts they expect us to live on. We challenge them to come and manage any one of our homes for one day to see if they would survive.
We want a living income.  We have earned it.
Louise Hamilton – Pensioner
Dhanmattie Balkissoon – Domestic Worker
Michelle Bunbury – Security Guard
Bibi Alie – On Public Assistance

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Mr. Zed, has the situation changed?

Zed, take a few shots of Guyana rum plus Corona for they will protect you from the Virus.

Dave is that Mr Zed?

Zed:  How about a shot of malibu on crushed ice with pineapple juice, a touch tobasco sauce  and a squeeze of lemon.  Blended not shaken or stirred.

Zed, look at this picture, see if the background rings a bell. 

Zed yuh never got around to take those pictures for me bai

@@Dave within sight line at present. Brama’s idea of a luxury development. Started in 2010; still incomplete.

@ Others regarding liquor. I a a dark rum guy so none of the fancy stuff. Also, try the Butter Pecan liqueur from Guyana instead of Malibu. 

People ask for a bottle of the virus when they request Corona beer. They claim that it helps to combat the virus. That high wine is vicious stuff. Gave a Canadian friend some one time and he drank coke with the one    big shot for the remainder of the night.

definitely my last post 

Zed don't forget to buy your products from Ray's new KSI shop.  He may set you up with a can of biscuits so that in the words of the Kabaka himself "You can eat like white man" and you may not have to wait in line like everyone else.

Zed if ever you make it to Toronto, look me up. You can always reach me via the internet from GNI main page 

So long, Zed. It was a privilege to interact with a high-caliber person like you.  I too have apprehension about this forum's future.

It seems Thai I was misinformed that DJ has assumed ownership of the site. It seems that this will not happen until June.  I hereby withdraw my request that my membership be terminated.

And, no, this was not an attempt to see what people will say when I leave. I know some will accuse me of it. I look forward to posting and saying my truth which I live. We are in troubled time in Guyana. The virus situation is frightening for most Guyanese.additionally, there have been reports from acquaintances that prices have gone up for basis necessities We are also worried about the election results and the uncertainty that comes from the long delay. There seems to be an end in sight, thought I see many legal hurdles ahead and possibility of unrest. Except in the minds of APNU supporters to whom the leadership,of APNU lied, everyone else in Guyana and the observers seem to think that the PPP/C has won the elections. Through acts of commission and acts of omission, both APNU and GECOM know this to be true.

I will stay only if Django streams Playboy Channel on GNI. You see when the site is slow, I'll need something to keep me busy else with everyone leaving, this will be like a mortuary.

@Zed, I respect your decision. My request is you remain, at least, until the legitimate government is sworn in or Django takes over, whichever is later.

Skeldon man don't worry Prashad will use the time to educate you about the benefits of having a nation of our own.

@Prashad: Like you want to turn like Granger now? You own nation? Damn! you should buy an island somewhere near Africa or so.

Prash, you didn't say whether you will take in Ramjattan, Moses and Charandas in your kingdom.