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Re: Guyana :Sound, Soul and Taste ! - ketchim - 05-04-2014
Yeah , got rid of it for a huge personal Kabaka mansion :
dunno IF Viola got a chance to live in um ..
Put you burnhamite peasants in yuh place 8)
[quote author=ramesh link=topic=89387.msg561949#msg561949 date=1399218020]
Burnham did the right thing in getting rid of it
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Re: Guyana :Sound, Soul and Taste ! - ketchim - 05-05-2014
I need a pic of that house de Kabaka built on that famous GT Race Track.... :-\
Re: Guyana :Sound, Soul and Taste ! - ketchim - 05-05-2014
When Forbes Burnham began his assault on the propertied class in Guyana, he decided that
the symbol of their prestige, the race course at D’Urban Park, had to go, since this was not
in keeping with the “egalitarian†society that he was attempting to build. ...hahahaha ::LOL::
His excuse for the closure of the race course was the need to build a road link between what
was then old Georgetown and the housing areas of North and South Ruimveldt :
which had sprung up.....
Re: Guyana :Sound, Soul and Taste ! - Meseret - 05-05-2014
here's a pic Ketchie ... yeah Viola lived in it but after Burnham died, no one else wanted to live in it. they were afraid of the African jumbees that Burnham used to invoke.
Re: Guyana :Sound, Soul and Taste ! - ketchim - 05-05-2014
Thanks , Meseret !
Black people in Guyana were easily conned by the Kabaka , eh ramesh ?
[quote author=Meseret link=topic=89387.msg562080#msg562080 date=1399305643]
no one wanted to live in it. [size=10pt]they were afraid of the African jumbees that Burnham used to invoke.[/size]
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Re: Guyana :Sound, Soul and Taste ! - ketchim - 05-05-2014
[quote author=ramesh link=topic=89387.msg561949#msg561949 date=1399218020]
Race track in the middle of a city for elites and big shots ?
Burnham did the right thing in getting rid of it
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hahahahaha...... :-[ :-[
Re: Guyana :Sound, Soul and Taste ! - ketchim - 05-05-2014
Thank goodness for Indian Arrival :
eh , ramesh ?
Re: Guyana :Sound, Soul and Taste ! - Googley - 05-05-2014
Ramesh celebrating the "mashing" of the cultures!
Re: Guyana :Sound, Soul and Taste ! - ramesh - 05-05-2014
[quote author=ketchim link=topic=89387.msg562151#msg562151 date=1399317621]
Thank goodness for Indian Arrival :
eh , ramesh ?
[/quote]By the amount of douglas here in Georgetown I guess that I that should be happy
Re: Guyana :Sound, Soul and Taste ! - ketchim - 05-05-2014
How many duglahs in GT ?
u musse mean Buck and black