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Member Registered:: February 10, 2005
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Yes, that article posted by Mr Ambassador is a wealth of information.
the historic content is so educational. I can honestly say that, like Riya, I learnt more from this one thread, than I ever have about the history of the names of our GY Villages. Great job Lil Bro starting this thread. |
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Junior Member Location: Richmond Hill, New York,USA
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Good morning Villagebelle.....next time you are in Cuba I can arrange for you to get a historical tour of that island also..... |
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Member Registered:: February 10, 2005
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G'Morning Churchill!! how are you this slightly cooler morning? Bai, vacation is a sore point with me today. Hubby and I were supposed to leave for Panama tomorrow (my mother's day gift  ), but because of my ear problem, I had to cancel and now he and our son are going instead  about Cuba, I just may take you up on that offer as I definitely plan to make other visits there. |
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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Wa'Salaam Didi_VG
so sorry to hear u aren't able to make that special trip to Panama. You would have loved that country, oh well maybe next yr. Jus get that ear problem fixed quick, i really hope u do soon. did u noticed on the Ambassador's post a village name Goedverwagting? i had forgotten bout that one on WCD how bout La Grange, La Jalousie, Mete Meer Zorg, Tuschen, Cornelia Ida, and Zeeburg?  |
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And Pakistan ! |
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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yea Pakistan
i mentioned we have a Harlem too on WCDWindsor Forest is probably Brit huh Churchy? |
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It sounds British .....I am surprised that the area there did not adopt a Chinese name as the first set of Chinese labourers were "bounded" for and lived at Windsor Forest.....around to late 1830's.... |
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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more wonderful insight from Churchy
 how bout Blankenburg, mo German influence? |
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Junior Member Location: Richmond Hill, New York,USA
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Am sorry to hear that you are under the weather.....hope you feel better soon... Next to Guyana I consider Cuba to be my favourite country..... |
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Junior Member Location: Richmond Hill, New York,USA
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It could be both German and Dutch because of the linguistic similarities... There were many German soldiers also who were mercenaries in the then colonial forces... |
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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i was very fortunate to travel quite a bit in GY as a youth, since i had so many relatives all over the place.
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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Good Morning Amral,
Bhai hope you will archive this thread before you decide to mass delete again. |
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Junior Member Location: Richmond Hill, New York,USA
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That street was named after Alice well known as Kosilla who was killed on March 6th,1964 when she and other workers were demonstating for the recognisation of the Guyana Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU)...
The workers were on strike and a scab employed by the expatraite management drove a tractor into the protestors thus killing Alice aka Kowsilla and seriouslly wounding several others... As a young boy I attended that funeral with my uncle and other young activists... |
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Elite Member Location: شفيك, أحبك
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Even though that pic is of a street in Leonora, it could have been any street in another village. Thats how it was in Canje.
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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Churchy yuh roamed whole ovuh GY tuh yeh nice
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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yea yuh right, Triumph and Mon Repos looked jus suh tuh |
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Elite Member Location: شفيك, أحبك
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thank goodness for village names or you wouldn't know where you were!
In Berbice we also had Fort Ordinance..that explains itself....and there was Cumberland which can be English, right? |
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Junior Member Location: Richmond Hill, New York,USA
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Canje also is famous for its contributions to the struggle for the upliftment of the Guyanese masses... Several sugar workers were killed there I think in 1913 or 1914 before the first world war... when they were protesting the harsh working conditions at Rose Hall... One of the leaders of that protest was a muslim man I think "Bachus" ... |
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it does sound English
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I have heard this before and I think Bachus relatives were still living in Canje upto the time I lived there. The Rose Hall estate has some real history...some of them tragic |
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I am glad that the oral tradition continues... On the same general area where the workers were gunned down Dr.Cheddi Jagan handed out free house lots to the descendants of the workers from Rose Hall...this was in 1995... I remember it was raining heavily that day and Dr.Jagan pushed aside the prepared speech that was handed to him... he did not need a written speech to give to the workers what was rightly theirs...unfortunately no one captured the moment on film or tape... |
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Elite Member Location: شفيك, أحبك
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Churchill, you should see that area where he allocated the houselots. It is flourishing and the people are so grateful of that gesture to this day. The area is almost complete. I wish he had lived to see it..... This message has been edited. Last edited by: Riya, |
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Junior Member Location: Richmond Hill, New York,USA
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That area will always be flourishing as it was nourished by the blood, tears and sweat of the sugar workers in general and those who made the supreme sacrifice in particular... |
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last year ah think Jagdeo visited Little India and little Africa - somewhere in Skeldon |
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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a couple mo French Villages?
Malgre Tout, Nouvelle Flanders |
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DF where is this ? B/ce ? |
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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check out some Scot names here;
On East and West Bank Berbice - Sisters District: Providence | Glasgow | Edinburgh | Everton | Belle Vue | Rotterdam | Lonsdale | Sisters | Friends | Kootberaad | Dieutichum | De Kinderen | Busee’s Lust | Highbury | Light Town |
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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East Coast Dem, near Success/Happy Acre |
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