http://www.gtrl.tv/RORAIMA/playlist1.asx

Also, please watch the video clip linked above, especially the second item on the playlist.

Banwari was a barber who used to live at South-West Annandale (1970s), a couple of houses from the late “Zero” who operated a bar, right next to late “Uncle Chuloo”. He cut my hair when I was a kid, and he was known to give you a very low hair cut. He used to twist and turn your head in all sorts of weird and painful positions as he barbered the hair away. Some kids used to cry while Banwari cut their hair, but Banwari would just ignore them. They did not want to go to Banwari to have their hair cut, cause of the still, sometimes painful position that they would have to keep their heads. While complaining about pain in the neck as Banwari cut your hair, Banwari would just say, “Bear yuh chafe”.

Red Lion
http://www.gtrl.tv

BY the way, I just called Ronald H and he never heard about it, and he is a celeb’ playwright like Harold. Just goes to show we all cannot know everything. Hope we find someone who really knows the answer and we get started on recording our heritage and histroy.

Ah surprised that a writer like you don’t know about this.
But then I thought that I did but when I checked my memory chip,
I got a reading that the file could not be read! Seems that with the changes
in the operating systems, some of the old files cannot be now read.

I think that it had to do with a court case ( but hold it! don’t quote me!) and the punishment meted out, so Banwari [spelling?] muttered self-consolation of
‘ah got to bear meh chafe’.

A good reference guy is Sancho who had done lots of studies and researches
on Guyanese ancestry and folklore. Just Google him and you should get some
lead or information. Also check Moses’ Guyana Outpost web site. Right now I travelling, so I cannot do these checks, but I am sure that you would find some
leads.

Yea men, Banwari seh ‘ bear yuh chafe’