Next one.

What was the last year bicycle owners in Guyana were required to purchase bicycle licences?

Here is a pic of a 1948 British Guiana bicycle licence plate for a schoolboy. Separate licences were sold to adults.

This is a ballahoo. It is not a canoe. A corial is a canoe.

Here's a screenshot of the 1913 dictionary spelling. Also, check the newspaper spelling in an earlier post. Let's turn a blind eye to this one.

awrite

Point taken, Mars. As I said earlier, you're correct technically, but my question has the term "Guyanese canoe." Balahoo is in current usage in Guyana as the two newspaper clips show in my previous post.

Dem newspapers ain't know nothing about nothing. I never heard anyone describe a canoe as a ballahoo in Guyana. It's always a corial to me. That's what river people call a canoe.

This is an interesting one. Didn't even know that it was required at one point.

I'm guessing here.....1966

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By the way, how do you know that these men were travelling in canoes? It could be that they were actually travelling in a boat which is big enough to be referred to as a ballahoo (eight letters please )

If there were nine men in the boat that capsized, it is more than likely not a canoe but a bigger boat in which case the newspapers would be correct in referring to the boat as a ballahoo (two L's ).

Mars, I think we can agree that words are used loosely in Guyana.

After 29 years of marriage, I have a problem understanding some words my wife uses. They're certainly not in the dictionary meaning sense.

For example, if I ask her a simple question, she would say "Don't torment me."

Torment? A simple question is torment? Hmmmm... sometimes I tell myself I should have married a Filipina.

you rass sound badaration 

Banna, yuh know I-man talking the struth. Guyanese use certain words loosely.

Hear dis one: during the 1964 riots a patrol of British soldiers passed through our street. Shortly after, our neighbour called my mother: " Ah wheh yuh bin. Dem chinee sojah jus pass and gone."

For that woman, a white man was a chinese man.

When a big brother is reprimanding a younger brother, the mother would say...

'Alyu kill am and done no'.

Me knew it was Balahoo and photographed an open ended one in Upper Mazaruni river, [must be from the bark of a tree] wid a mother taking three children to school in Kangaruma. Its a wide shot of the river with a small balahoo.

My Canadian audience usually ask ' Where are their life jackets ?'

It is interesting to rememba that the British soldiers were told, everyone with a red [jhandi] flag was a communist, like Cheddi Jagan.

We moved from the logies to the new housing scheme in 1959, when I was.....younger than Gil.

Two or three years later my Dad was still buying bicycle and radio licence.

I still have copies somewhere.

So I would say it stopped in 1962 or 1963, maybe 1964.  

The porcelain one was in 1967, then plastic in 1968. It used to break so. Think it stopped in 1969.

1970 is my next guess

Cham..here is the song

http://youtu.be/ehQKf6ROHrI

their is a song that go look how them old lady a drink daroo she a pack a old man in a little balahoo

The link is the song by Niesha Benjamin original singer

here is link http://youtu.be/yw-BmesiPeE by Kanchan

Incorrect.

QUESTION: What was the last year bicycle owners in Guyana were required to purchase bicycle licences?

DIRECT ANSWER: The last year Guyanese bicycle owners purchased bicycle licences was 1968.

From 1969, cyclists got free passes.

TI's answer is accepted. Congrats, young man.

I hope you people aren't getting bored with this thread.

Lemme tickle allyuh tail now.

How many donkeys are there in Guyana?

[An estimate is acceptable. Closest estimate wins.]

Me answering fa Warria...ONE

Me also answering fa Skelly..YOU DE ONE.

Excuse me guys, me stomach hurts from laughing, you guys funny baaad. 

700,000?

YAAA!  

Iman doin the math..Guyana's population approx 700k about 40 % are jackasses, total..drumroll ...................approx 28 thousand.

You smoked too much during Math class. 

Don't forget darling is a female donkey!

Tola, you are 100% correct. That's exactly how I was going to handle it. You see, I can tolerate the insults. What irks me is when these guys cannot handle the insults, they resort to family abuse.  

I would guess about 7500. I know around #35 village has about a couple hundred.

Ohhh rass i shoulda stik in a xtra 0..hehehe  Nahh that's too much jackasses for one lil country like Guyana.

I'll stay with the 28k

Are donkeys used in US as in T.O on farms?

I haven't really seen too many donkeys in the U.S. but they probably use them on farms and ranches. 

Donkeys fear nothing,they go after prowlers ie:coyotes etc.

Gil..after doing some search i will say

around 1000

Where de rass you search to find donkey population man...donkileaks?

We have one winner, guys!

According to data compiled by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO], there were approximately 1,000 donkeys in Guyana in 1997.

The report said "Donkey populations in the Caribbean have been quite
stable." We can interpret this to mean that from 1997 to today the number remains at around 1,000.

Congratulations, Django!

right where Gilly find it

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...ep=rep1&type=pdf

I just checked it and copied the last paragraph:  

Skelly, one of the things that caught my attention during my few visits to the Corentyne was the large number of donkeys on the road. Maybe, out of the 1,000 Guyana total, Berbice has the larger portion. There ought to be some valid explanation for that.

Skelly, I am NOT knocking Warrior  here. I am not taking sides and the post was meant to be funny.

Two year ago I 'was' the friend of a recently  married couple in Berbice. When they broke up months later, I still wanted to become both of their friends, but she was upset when  I visited his family.

Now,  another Berbice young woman, a friend of the couple, who took her side, has invite me to photographed her wedding.

Before accepting her invitation I asked her to answer one question...

Whose side should I take, if their marriage don't work out ?

She did not answer and I will not photograph their wedding. It would have been all at my cost, including airfare. 

But you know, I believe they are too shallow to fully understand.    

A tap-side guy video recorded the previous wedding for US$250. and it turned out all dark. They were asking me to correct it. I refused.

Hea Warria, like you gane an ketch hassa at punt trench ?      

There is lady in GT who help animals. She goes to Stabroek market and help with health care for horses.

She work with another lady in Vancouver, who supports her.

During one of our visits to Berbice we noticed  a donkey with a large infected side wound and one of his heel missing. The foot was raw and it seems that the donkey was in a great deal of pain and beyond help.

Through the GT lady the donkey was put down by a police patrol and buried by  municipal employees. 

Donkeys in Berbice seem to be injured on the roads more than any other animal. One time I saw a dead donkey on the road with the bumper of a vehicle nearby.

When cows are killed on the road, the owner would cut off the piece of  skin with brand number, so the animal cannot be traced to them, when he could  be charged and fined.