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Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

The opposition would like us to forget about the days of severe food shortages. They want to us believe that we are suffering now and not then.

There was a severe shortage of imported food. There was no shortage of locally produced food. In fact the lack of imported food led to increased demand for local commodities like ground provisions, plantain, rice, coconut oil, fish, etc. The municipal markets in Georgetown, La Penitence and Kitty, as well as the rural village markets thrived on the sales of locally produced food.

In any case, trying to scare Guyanese now with the Burnhamite bogeyman will not work. Conditions and circumstances today are vastly different from those of 30-40 years ago.

FM
Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

The opposition would like us to forget about the days of severe food shortages. They want to us believe that we are suffering now and not then. We must never let this happen

You are stuck in the past, the country wants to move forward and they do not want the albatross of Jagan and Burnham around their necks anymore.

 

Everyone is moving on, you stay in that hole.

FM
Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

The opposition would like us to forget about the days of severe food shortages. They want to us believe that we are suffering now and not then. We must never let this happen

You are stuck in time in your Ontario subsidize housing. You are writing as if you live in Guyana. You are so out of touch. Why don't you move back?

Mitwah
Originally Posted by Gilbakka:
Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

The opposition would like us to forget about the days of severe food shortages. They want to us believe that we are suffering now and not then.

There was a severe shortage of imported food. There was no shortage of locally produced food. In fact the lack of imported food led to increased demand for local commodities like ground provisions, plantain, rice, coconut oil, fish, etc. The municipal markets in Georgetown, La Penitence and Kitty, as well as the rural village markets thrived on the sales of locally produced food.

In any case, trying to scare Guyanese now with the Burnhamite bogeyman will not work. Conditions and circumstances today are vastly different from those of 30-40 years ago.

Try some white rice roti two days for your breakfastâ€Ķ.

FM
Originally Posted by Gilbakka:
Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

The opposition would like us to forget about the days of severe food shortages. They want to us believe that we are suffering now and not then.

There was a severe shortage of imported food. There was no shortage of locally produced food. In fact the lack of imported food led to increased demand for local commodities like ground provisions, plantain, rice, coconut oil, fish, etc. The municipal markets in Georgetown, La Penitence and Kitty, as well as the rural village markets thrived on the sales of locally produced food.

In any case, trying to scare Guyanese now with the Burnhamite bogeyman will not work. Conditions and circumstances today are vastly different from those of 30-40 years ago.

Granger was the ballot box master keeper then....he is still there

FM
Originally Posted by Spontaneous emission:
Originally Posted by Gilbakka:
Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

The opposition would like us to forget about the days of severe food shortages. They want to us believe that we are suffering now and not then.

There was a severe shortage of imported food. There was no shortage of locally produced food. In fact the lack of imported food led to increased demand for local commodities like ground provisions, plantain, rice, coconut oil, fish, etc. The municipal markets in Georgetown, La Penitence and Kitty, as well as the rural village markets thrived on the sales of locally produced food.

In any case, trying to scare Guyanese now with the Burnhamite bogeyman will not work. Conditions and circumstances today are vastly different from those of 30-40 years ago.

Try some white rice roti two days for your breakfastâ€Ķ.

I did it for over 5 years. I had no choice. I didn't die. I didn't get sick.

FM
Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

Contrary to what Gilbakka says about the local food industry the production of rice, and other locally grown crops declined by over 50%. 

Rice production declined but rice was not the only food crop.

Please name those crops which "declined by over 50%."

I know that output increased for greens and vegetables, fresh and salted fish, dried shrimp, coffee, plantains, cassava, eddoes, yams, tannias, coconut oil.

FM
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In Guyana today Dairy milk is a scarce commodity. Most people do not want to purchase dairy Milk because they prefer the box milk or milk powder.

 

Milk today cost 5 Dollars US per gallon in GY. That is better than under Burnham time?

 

Blackout is a daily occurrence in GY, so how is this different from under Burnham?

FM
Originally Posted by HM_Redux:

In Guyana today Dairy milk is a scarce commodity. Most people do not want to purchase dairy Milk because they prefer the box milk or milk powder.

 

Milk today cost 5 Dollars US per gallon in GY. That is better than under Burnham time?

 

Blackout is a daily occurrence in GY, so how is this different from under Burnham?

Burnham had a strategic vision superior to the PPP however, his failing were execution and great mistrust by the Indian masses.  This, coupled with institutional and open street racism further alienated the Indian masses who were critical for his policy success.

FM
Originally Posted by baseman:
 

Burnham had a strategic vision superior to the PPP however, his failing were execution and great mistrust by the Indian masses.  This, coupled with institutional and open street racism further alienated the Indian masses who were critical for his policy success.

And now the PPP similarly abuses black people, is distrusted by blacks, and anxieties remain because of the ethnic distrust that both groups have towards each other.

 

Of course you Indian focus prevents you from seeing this.

 

Burnham started out well and ran mad in 1973 with that infamous Sophia piece of trash.  Pity the UF types had abandoned Guyana by then, so couldn't educate the masses to hold him in check.  Black people endorsed him and suffered, just as today the PPP oppresses all, including poor Indians, and yet people like you will endorse them only because they are Indian dominated.

 

As of now Guyana needs a regime change to give it time to re-organize itself.

 

1. APNU will be a weak minority govt as their support base is limited.  APNU has accepted its role as the main opposition party, so will be too shell shocked if they win to initiate anything.  Especially as such a victory will only be one that has them as a minority govt.

 

2.  The PPP needs to lose so that they can become less arrogant.  So they can be made to fear what will happen to them if an APNU govt tries to use the constitution against them, and so that they can be part of the process of change.

 

3.  The role of the AFC is to deny the PPP and the APNU majority status and then use their margin of power to be a facilitator of change, working with those who also desire this.

 

 

A PPP victory will not be good.  They can no longer win the majority, but remain too arrogant to understand that this means that they must change how they govern, if they win the plurality.

FM
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Originally Posted by Spontaneous emission:
Originally Posted by Gilbakka:
Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

The opposition would like us to forget about the days of severe food shortages. They want to us believe that we are suffering now and not then.

There was a severe shortage of imported food. There was no shortage of locally produced food. In fact the lack of imported food led to increased demand for local commodities like ground provisions, plantain, rice, coconut oil, fish, etc. The municipal markets in Georgetown, La Penitence and Kitty, as well as the rural village markets thrived on the sales of locally produced food.

In any case, trying to scare Guyanese now with the Burnhamite bogeyman will not work. Conditions and circumstances today are vastly different from those of 30-40 years ago.

Granger was the ballot box master keeper then....he is still there

Plus numerous individuals from the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's who are firmly entrenched in the PNC.

FM
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
 

Plus numerous individuals from the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's who are firmly entrenched in the PNC.

I don't know if you know how silly you look when you try to define the PNC in terms of its excesses of the Burnham era, tie the AFC to this, and then fail to explain why some of the worst monsters of this time are now with the PPP.  The PNC is glad that those characters are now with the PPP, among the most recent to be absorbed is Joe Hamilton, whose savage reputation was exposed by the Rodney Commission, and even he couldn't deny his role.

 

Now tell us where people like Kit Nascimento, and assorted members of the Hammie Green goon squad and the House of Israel are? 

 

Indeed rumors are that the PPP now regrets importing those monsters as they fear what those monsters might do to them if thwarted.

FM
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Originally Posted by Gilbakka:
Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

Contrary to what Gilbakka says about the local food industry the production of rice, and other locally grown crops declined by over 50%. 

Rice production declined but rice was not the only food crop.

Please name those crops which "declined by over 50%."

I know that output increased for greens and vegetables, fresh and salted fish, dried shrimp, coffee, plantains, cassava, eddoes, yams, tannias, coconut oil.

Billy Ram, one day has passed and you cannot yet name those crops which you asserted had declined by over 50% during the PNC regime.

Before you make unsubstantiated claims, you must know that people are not gullible. People think and reason, and can draw conclusions on their own.

The PPP has been in power for 22 years. If you want the PPP to stay in power for 5 more years, you must justify the PPP's accomplishments. Don't hark back to the pre-1992 era in order to win support and votes.

Don't blame East Indians like me who don't automatically vote race.

 

FM
Originally Posted by HM_Redux:

The PPP's Burnham Boogey man mission has failed.

 

That is what happens when you overplay propaganda while ignoring your own corruption and failures. 

 

The PPP is sitting like a duck.....

The average voter is 35 y/o.  Burnham died 30 years ago.  Why does the PPP still think that the average voter cares about that era.  Given the massive migration that has occurred its possible that the bulk of those who will remember that era are no longer living in Guyana!

FM

If Billy Ram wants to talk about rice under PPP let him read this APNU statement and rebut it intelligently:

"The announcement by the Minister of Agriculture that the Government is advancing G$2.1 Bn to Millers to make early payments to cash starved rice farmers is deliberately intended to mislead the Guyanese public and divert attention from the existing pressures that these farmers are facing on a daily basis.

The Minister needs to explain the following:

1. If the farmers have delivered 600,000 tons of rice to the millers, valued at G$42.0Bn, then the paddy price must have been G$4,400 per bag. However, the reality is that farmers are being paid discriminatory prices, ranging from G$3,250 to friends and between G$2,800 - $1,900 per bag to others;

2. Rice farmers know that their paddy price was cut in half from G$6,000 to G$3,000 since the PPP Administration took control of Paddy delivery under the very lucrative Venezuela deal originally initiated
by Dr. Turhane Doerga;

3. The very lucrative prices are being received from the Venezuelan deal while low paddy prices are being paid to the farmers to enable the PPP Administration and its cronies to reap super profits on the backs of the rice farmers who are being progressively impoverished;

4. In the 2007 - 2008 boom, rice farmers massively invested in the industry because the paddy price was reaching the G$7,000 per bag level. However, the Government-to-Government arrangement with the Venezuelans has enabled the PPP Administration to finally succeed in its objective to reduce the price paid to the rice farmers while benefiting the PPP cronies through discriminatory prices. How is this benefitting the suffering independent rice farmers?

5. What does he means when he refers to the delivery of packaged rice and where the packaging is being undertaken;

6. When the first gasification/energy plant was built and by which company;

7. Why the private sector is being prevented from developing and marketing specialty rice cereals?
"

FM

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