@Ramakant-P posted:

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

How come a Bramchari was married?  Aren't they supposed to be celibate?

@Totaram posted:

How come a Bramchari was married?  Aren't they supposed to be celibate?

The First stage in the life of a Hindu is bramchar up to age 25.

The second stage is the Householder stage if you so choose.  He chose that stage.   

@Bibi Haniffa posted:

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

I vaguely remembered a bus called the Caribbean Queen.  I don't know what happened to it.  Caribbean Express 1 and 2 were owned by Sonny.

My Grandfather, Bahadur Persaud, a businessman, was living near to the Railway station.

@Bibi Haniffa posted:

During the race riots, Hardat Singh drove his buses to Good Faith, Mahaicony and took up residence there after the Indians were weeded out of Golden Grove. His sister, Dr. Balwant Singh mom was living at Mahaicony. She was the owner of a huge store near to Branch Road.

My mom's sister used to live there. I just can't remember his buses.  All I remember is Egitan who had owned twelve buses running from Rosignal to Georgetown.  There were a couple of buses called the British Commander. The owner was from Georgetown. Luxury Liner is a distant memory.

@Ramakant-P posted:

The First stage in the life of a Hindu is bramchar up to age 25.

The second stage is the Householder stage if you so choose.  He chose that stage.   

I thought swami use to make those bramcharis suck lime--they had no choice in the matter.  I know lots of them left but swami wasn't happy.  

@Tola posted:

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 ? 

According to this news report Burnham scrapped the railway because it was uneconomical. But in 2011 the trained economist and then President Bharrat Jagdeo promised to bring back railways. Who knows, he might now influence incoming President Irfaan Ali to put it on the government's agenda.

https://www.kaieteurnewsonline...tablished-in-guyana/

Rodney said in a meeting by Regent street just before he had to put on his Dunlop track boots and run from the riot police. Burnham was Midas in reverse.  Anything he touches turns to shit.

@Bibi Haniffa posted:

Everything that Burnham touched became uneconomical. Jagdeo built a new road where the railway line used to be on the ECD.

Eh heh lazy man Jagdeo bill da road heself wid faak an shovel.

@Totaram posted:

Eh heh lazy man Jagdeo bill da road heself wid faak an shovel.

LOL

That's like Burnham built all brick roads to Highways on the Coast Land ,including the Linden Highway.

@Former Member posted:

According to this news report Burnham scrapped the railway because it was uneconomical. But in 2011 the trained economist and then President Bharrat Jagdeo promised to bring back railways. Who knows, he might now influence incoming President Irfaan Ali to put it on the government's agenda.

https://www.kaieteurnewsonline...tablished-in-guyana/

Thanks Gil for that report. Now that Guyana might become wealthy.  It would benefit Guyanese, if the government re-establish railway service from  Rosignol to Georgetown, Vreed-en-hoop to Parika,, including Skeldon to New Amsterdam, Georgetown to the airport and  other distribution points. Railway service is a tourist attraction in other countries and Guyana has many beautiful places to show  the world. 

Is is interesting that Dr. Ptolemy Reid is mentioned in the report.  During the 1960 at Scouter  Camp Jubilee  near the CJIA. Fr. Bernard Darke took a  photograph [in my collection], of me meeting Dr. Reid, with Pastor Callighan from WCD.  Fr. Darke was killed because he was not allowed to published a paper during Dr. Reid's  government.

Fr. Darke and other scouter trainers put their lives on the line  to mix Africans and Indians in  one scout patrol at training camps, during those troubling years in Guyana.    

@Bibi Haniffa posted:

Same family. Egitan wife was Dr. Balwant Singh sister. And my mom just confirmed that Hardat Singh buses were called Luxury Liner.

Thanks for the info.

@Bibi Haniffa posted:

Jagdeo is one of the most hardworking people I know.

Is either you doan know many people or the majority you know, lazy likeah rass.