Miss Petal,  aren't you rather presumptuous?

Liff dress and salute?  Gurl yu givin dem bais ideas. Yuh is wuk out by equinox pon liberty by romeos pizza side? Hey hey hey. Mr Amral did a great duty foh mek dis place. De man seh dat he go be round when he sweet lady let go. Be patient...hey hey hey. 

@Mitwah posted:

Miss Petal,  aren't you rather presumptuous?

Yes

@Former Member posted:

Liff dress and salute?  Gurl yu givin dem bais ideas. Yuh is wuk out by equinox pon liberty by romeos pizza side? Hey hey hey. Mr Amral did a great duty foh mek dis place. De man seh dat he go be round when he sweet lady let go. Be patient...hey hey hey. 

Are you jealous you don't have a dress to lift? 

@Former Member posted:

Yes

Sounds like an eulogy.

Next time wear something under your dress and spray up with some nice dollar store perfume. 

@Mitwah posted:

Sounds like an eulogy.

Next time wear something under your dress and spray up with some nice dollar store perfume. 

We are not in the world where we speak in parables. That is when people would create mountains out of mold hills. Today's world we speak directly what we mean. 

Petal are you single right now? You will make a good girl for Amral.

@Former Member posted:

We are not in the world where we speak in parables. That is when people would create mountains out of mold hills. Today's world we speak directly what we mean. 

Please brush up on your spelling. If you speak directly what do you mean, and why do use an idiotic... errr idiomatic expression?

@Former Member posted:

We are not in the world where we speak in parables. That is when people would create mountains out of mold hills. Today's world we speak directly what we mean. 

Patal ah talk 'bout mold; dem fungi fungi things in where she live.

@Former Member posted:

Official Farewell to Amral

I am not an emotional woman but I am touched to know that in a matter of hours you will be gone from GNI.

You and Sunil are the only two gentlemen I will lift my dress and salute.   

Dee Petal ah flouncing about and lifting up her dress.

Petal, thanks for starting the thread .

First off this forum would not have existed had it not being for Safraz Ishamel

Safraz created GNI (Guyana.org) back in 1995 as way to promote his Dad's writing and work (Amb. Odeen Ishmael).

Back then there were very  few websites on Guyana. It was around that time I had my first computer and was exposed to the internet. It was just by chance that I saw GNI .

Back then this was what the site looked like

https://web.archive.org/web/19...tp://www.guyana.org/

He had a guestbook instead of a Discussion Forum. Soon after though he started the forum. (I know at one time before all this he was having some sort of message board, but I was never part of it)

Nevertheless when I first saw GNI I was impressed and wanted to also create a webpage. I remember, buying a book on learning HTML it was the best 30 dollars I spent on a book. I soon launched my own website on Guyana (guyanaca.com) which still exists. And I was also posting news and articles out of Guyana, courtesy of the Chronicle and Stabroek. I contacted Odeen to also send me articles which he readily sent.

We were also rebroadcasting audio news out of Guyana with the help of Tony, Nishal, and Spy. Got radio ads playing on Chin radio Caribbean Connections and Dhantal Radio CIUT radio, promoting the website.

Not sure if these will play

http://www.guyana.org/chin_guyanacaad.wav

http://www.guyana.org/guyanaca.mp3

http://www.guyana.org/oct31_interview.mp3

Eventually we were asked to stop rebroadcasting the news out of Guyana because it was copyright.

Soon afterwards Odeen contacted me and asked me if I was interested in managing GNI since Safraz was much too busy now with his job. I agreed and decided that I will close down my own website (since materials were getting duplicated). But my cousin asked to retain the domain and he will use it for his Church stuff.

So by 1998 or there about I was now managing GNI and the Forum.

The Forum kept crashing because the software had bugs in the early days and the server was getting problems. So I had to create a separate domain for the Forum, hence Guyanafriends.com was created and the Forum was then hosted on that separate platform. The rest is history.

Friends, many said the Forum will die, that was about 10 years ago. We were here before, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and all of the others.

But the few stalwart members here were determined to hang in here and continue the discussions. Many came and many left. But the forum has survived now for almost 25 years.

I am sure Django will carry on the good work. Change is good and we must learn to embrace it.

I was told that Sunil and Ray have agreed to stay on as Admins to assist Django.

So once again fellow members, I take my hat off to you. You were all great and I will miss the daily banter. My membership will remain active, but I cannot promise to be posting or visiting often. If you need to reach out to me, I can always be contacted via http://www.guyana.org/ I still hold control of the official website GNI, But this Forum is now no longer part of GNI, though there will still be a link to it from GNI mainpage.

Petal, and Bibi, hang in there girls don't let the boys give you a hard time.

Guyanese born and will always remain a Guyanese.

This Forum is independently owned and operated by Uniteguyana.org

 BIG UP to Bossman, yo!  

@Former Member posted:

0You and Sunil are the only two gentlemen I will lift my dress and salute.   

Doan lift dah dress for too long, it lil cold outside, we doan wanna end up with chapped lips now, do we?