All buses were made just like that.  It was a shame that Burnham took away their licenses.

@Bibi Haniffa posted:

My great grandmother’s brother from Golden Grove owned some of those buses. I think one of them was called Luxury Liner. People used to hire the bus to go to Atkinson airport when dem family going to England. Nuff Dholl Puri and fowl curry on board with two bottle XM.

What is up wid u and dis 'dholl' puri ting.

Is Dhall, budday. Dhaaal.

@Sheik101 posted:

What is up wid u and dis 'dholl' puri ting.

Is Dhall, budday. Dhaaal.

I stop questioning autocorrect buddaaay. 

@Bibi Haniffa posted:

I stop questioning autocorrect buddaaay. 

Lol. 😃

I remember back in the day when my mother family would come from berbice with one of these. Same airport run. They would have everything on top of the bus. From rope to soap.

Obviously I am very young compared to you guys

@Bibi Haniffa posted:

My great grandmother’s brother from Golden Grove owned some of those buses. I think one of them was called Luxury Liner. People used to hire the bus to go to Atkinson airport when dem family going to England. Nuff Dholl Puri and fowl curry on board with two bottle XM.

Luxury Liner was not from Golden Grove. The Caribbean Express was own by Sonny from that village. Who is your Grandmother's brother?

I was told TATA bus replace these wooden bus in 1975... I was 5 years old, but remember seeing them in Berbice visiting my family.

Bibi, national cinema, that was bomb, was owned by Ray uncle 

@Former Member posted:

I was told TATA bus replace these wooden bus in 1975... I was 5 years old, but remember seeing them in Berbice visiting my family.

I released those Tata buses.  I remembered the Bank of Baroda lent The Guyana Gajraj company $2.5 million to buy 60 Tata buses from India. There were no spare parts in the deal and the buses crumbled one after the other.

@Sheik101 posted:

I remember back in the day when my mother family would come from berbice with one of these. Same airport run. They would have everything on top of the bus. From rope to soap.

Also,  in those days when we ride our bicycle for long distances and don't want to ride back. No problem, we just put it on top of the bus.

The busses had a ladder and another door at the back, with sliding windows on the sides. 

I believe it was a lorry chassis, with no cab, that was made into a wooden bus. 

The wooden busses were running at the same time as the train.  I believe the TATA busses were taken to Guyana, after the train had stopped. 

@Tola posted:

Also,  in those days when we ride our bicycle for long distances and don't want to ride back. No problem, we just put it on top of the bus.

The busses had a ladder and another door at the back, with sliding windows on the sides. 

I believe it was a lorry chassis, with no cab, that was made into a wooden bus. 

True. I would stand at the front gate in my short pants and barefoot the the posse walking in. Uncles, aunties. Etc. Those big baskets had rice. DHAAL PURI and so on.  They used to come down loaded. Women had those rumal things on their heads. They would speak tamil or madrass as u call it. My mom was fluent in that. Never understood a word.

I remember traveling on one of those buses on a school tour to Dakara Creek, Botanical Gardens, and the Guyana Museum. We hang our heads out of the windows and shouted at passing motor cyclists "hey! watch one of you balls wabbling from one side".  

The Tata buses replaced the Train service on West Coast Demerara.

@Sheik101 posted:

True. I would stand at the front gate in my short pants and barefoot the the posse walking in. Uncles, aunties. Etc. Those big baskets had rice. DHAAL PURI and so on.  They used to come down loaded. Women had those rumal things on their heads. They would speak tamil or madrass as u call it. My mom was fluent in that. Never understood a word.

I write a lot  about my life in GY for our kids, who were born overseas.  But one of the things I regret the most, was not speaking more to my parents about their life and also audio/video record it.

My Mom had a big multi colour basket that she carried on her head and a smaller one with a handle, for going to the market. That she carried hanging on her arm.  The head wear was called a Madras rumal. 

@Tola posted:

I write a lot  about my life in GY for our kids, who were born overseas.  But one of the things I regret the most, was not speaking more to my parents about their life and also audio/video record it.

My Mom had a big multi colour basket that she carried on her head and a smaller one with a handle, for going to the market. That she carried hanging on her arm.  The head wear was called a Madras rumal. 

Popular head wear for East Indian women.

@kp posted:

The Tata buses replaced the Train service on West Coast Demerara.

In 1974. 

@kp posted:

The Tata buses replaced the Train service on West Coast Demerara.

True, I used to ride the train on the WCD, then the Tata busses. I really enjoyed the train, better than the bus.

How many people lost dem change after buying fish and bread from the lady with a tray on dem head, at the train station. When the train moved out before getting any change.  

@Tola posted:

True, I used to ride the train on the WCD, then the Tata busses. I really enjoyed the train, better than the bus.

How many people lost dem change after buying fish and bread from the lady with a tray on dem head, at the train station. When the train moved out before getting any change.  

That used to happen at Leonora Train crossing in front of the Roxy cinema.

 I would leave home at dark and return at dark when going to school in G/T with the train.

@Django posted:

Popular head wear for East Indian women.

I remember the colors. blue and a curry powder one.

@Former Member posted:

In 1974. 

Anyone knows the reason for removing the train in Guyana ? Was it too expensive. But, with newer locomotives  and better cars it could have been a wonderful tourist service, as we see in other countries. The tracks and right of way was already there.   Passenger transportation in Guyana is presently not the best for the people. 

Please don't bring politics into this discussion, it might destroy  our discourse. 

@Tola posted:

I write a lot  about my life in GY for our kids, who were born overseas.  But one of the things I regret the most, was not speaking more to my parents about their life and also audio/video record it.

My Mom had a big multi colour basket that she carried on her head and a smaller one with a handle, for going to the market. That she carried hanging on her arm.  The head wear was called a Madras rumal. 

Tola here's something interesting that u might understand more than me, since i was small. When these people were speaking to each other, in tamil (mother included) it appeared as tho they were singing to each other. Lots of hand movements. Never understood that part,

Afro Dictator Burnham took away their licence and introduced Tata Buses and that became another PNC failure. PNC can't even run a cake shop, how can they run a country ?

Afro Dictator Burnham also sold off the train tracks !

Lots of memories of those Dave. Thanks for posting. 

@Ramakant-P posted:

Luxury Liner was not from Golden Grove. The Caribbean Express was own by Sonny from that village. Who is your Grandmother's brother?

The other bus owner from Golden Grove was the owner of the Buxton Pride bus. His son name was Tularam.

@Tola posted:

Anyone knows the reason for removing the train in Guyana ? Was it too expensive. But, with newer locomotives  and better cars it could have been a wonderful tourist service, as we see in other countries. The tracks and right of way was already there.   Passenger transportation in Guyana is presently not the best for the people. 

Please don't bring politics into this discussion, it might destroy  our discourse. 

An interesting point, Gilly. I hope whoever take charge of the country take this into consideration.

@kp posted:

That used to happen at Leonora Train crossing in front of the Roxy cinema.

 I would leave home at dark and return at dark when going to school in G/T with the train.

I know people on WCD who did the same to school in GT. Man, that was a huge sacrifice, but the only choice.  Berbice students took the bus to high school, etc  at New Amsterdam, Port Mourant or Skeldon.  

I was just writing a friend about us walking to school on the rice field dam. I hated the snakes and mud drains we had to cross.  Plus the whipping at school, if we are late. 

@Former Member posted:

Afro Dictator Burnham took away their licence and introduced Tata Buses and that became another PNC failure. PNC can't even run a cake shop, how can they run a country ?

Afro Dictator Burnham also sold off the train tracks !

Lots of memories of those Dave. Thanks for posting. 

 

Do you people think your continued hate will help Guyana get any better ? 

@Sheik101 posted:

Tola here's something interesting that u might understand more than me, since i was small. When these people were speaking to each other, in tamil (mother included) it appeared as tho they were singing to each other. Lots of hand movements. Never understood that part,

Sheik, understanding this mannerism was also before my time.  I know what you are talking about, but I also don't understand it.  Maybe, Gilly might be able to share his experience. 

@Tola posted:

Do you people think your continued hate will help Guyana get any better ? 

Speaking the truth does not qualify for hate. You need to get your act together man. Burhnam was racist, a thug and a dictator. Did I add a rigger too ?

@Tola posted:

Do you people think your continued hate will help Guyana get any better ? 

I don't think this is hate. We all still help Guyanese at home.

@Tola posted:

Anyone knows the reason for removing the train in Guyana ? Was it too expensive. But, with newer locomotives  and better cars it could have been a wonderful tourist service, as we see in other countries. The tracks and right of way was already there.   Passenger transportation in Guyana is presently not the best for the people. 

Please don't bring politics into this discussion, it might destroy  our discourse. 

I don't understand your last sentence, Tola. Scrapping the Guyana railway system was a political decision taken at Cabinet level no less. 

Complete villages use to rent buses to go with families who were leaving Guyana to the airport. Blacks would laugh and shout pink shoes orange shirt brown pants coconut oil head koolies when the buses pass.

@Sheik101 posted:

Tola here's something interesting that u might understand more than me, since i was small. When these people were speaking to each other, in tamil (mother included) it appeared as tho they were singing to each other. Lots of hand movements. Never understood that part,

Sheik, I just talk to a Tamil relative from Shi Lanka  and he believe the hand gesture while taking is an expression,  that the other person could understand.  Similar to hand gestures during a Bollywood  dance. 

@Former Member posted:

I don't understand your last sentence, Tola. Scrapping the Guyana railway system was a political decision taken at Cabinet level no less. 

Gilly, I don't doubt that it was a cabinet decision, obviously it was done by the government.

But do you know the rational for scrapping the railway ? What was their reason for scraping it ? 

@Bibi Haniffa posted:

Grandmother brother is the late great Hardat Singh better known as Yankee Dollar. He was a huge guy and white skin like a Yankee hence his nickname.  Uncle of Dr. Balwant Singh whose mom is his sister.

Hardat Singh lived opposition National Cinema. So you know Indranie who was married to Bramchari Govind.

@Bibi Haniffa posted:

Indranie and her sister Nandranie are my aunts. Indranie daughter is Priya Govind.

Indranie's brother is married to my 2nd cousin Chandra. 

Govind was my mentor. He was my chemistry and physics teacher at the Hindu College in Cove and John.  He trained me to sing bhajans, man the kund, and recite the Havan Puja.

Do you remember the buses that Hardat Singh owned? What was the name? I don’t remember.