Burnham Jhumbie

In the early 1960s Wismar and Christianburg were                two mixed villages where Indo-Guyanese resided in the predominantly                Afro-Guyanese (90 per cent) mining town of Mackenzie, located                some 65 miles up the Demarara river from the capital of Georgetown.
                But after independence from Britain, the name of the bauxite town                was changed from Mackenzie to Linden. The PNC leader Linden Forbes                Sampson Burnham named it after himself. It had been the scene                of his greatest political triumph.

Did Burnham really change the name of the town from Mackenzie                to Linden because he wanted to remove the colonial legacy and                substitute a local name for a foreign or colonial one? If this                was truly Burnham’s intention, then could have renamed Georgetown,                which was of course named after King George of England.

Instead Burnham’s real motive for naming the town after                himself was to symbolically establish his stamp and mark over                a massacre where he had reigned supreme over Indo-Guyanese.

into what?

are those marchers objective?

what are they protesting