Comments on: The Indian presence in Guyana http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/guyana-review/05/28/the-indian-presence-in-guyana/ Guyana News, Sports, Businesss and Entertainment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:55:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Satish http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/guyana-review/05/28/the-indian-presence-in-guyana/comment-page-1/#comment-153783 Satish Fri, 29 May 2009 10:49:40 +0000 http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=46903#comment-153783 Research is very much a job of knowing where to look for your data and it appears that the SN reporter here has tapped a rich seam indeed of information on indentured Indian immigrants. Top marks go to SN for the detailed history fact-find but the benefit of history is that it should be able to assist with the present and the future and here, it is clear that the government of Guyana has failed beyond belief to learn its history lessons. The news item mentions that Indian indentured labourers successfully transplanted their skills from their old homes onto their new and helped to diversify the economy of Guyana, yet now it is time again for our government to get more Indian investment TODAY in order to develop Guyana AGAIN; we find our government ignoring this most important and historic source of investment. Hence we see the sickly situation where India opens outsourcing information technology parks in Uruguay, Chile, Peru and Brazil and GUYANA MAKES NO OVERTURES TO INDIA. It is not too late for Guyana’s government to wake up; for even right now; India’s Bharti Airtel announces a tentative US$12 billion bid for MTN, a South African mobile phone giant. http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13751556 GUYANA MUST NOT IGNORE ITS HISTORY WHILST OTHER COUNTRIES CONTINUE DAY AFTER DAY TO TAP INDIA’S RICH SEAM OF COMMERCE. Research is very much a job of knowing where to look for your data and it appears that the SN reporter here has tapped a rich seam indeed of information on indentured Indian immigrants.
Top marks go to SN for the detailed history fact-find but the benefit of history is that it should be able to assist with the present and the future and here, it is clear that the government of Guyana has failed beyond belief to learn its history lessons.

The news item mentions that Indian indentured labourers successfully transplanted their skills from their old homes onto their new and helped to diversify the economy of Guyana, yet now it is time again for our government to get more Indian investment TODAY in order to develop Guyana AGAIN; we find our government ignoring this most important and historic source of investment.

Hence we see the sickly situation where India opens outsourcing information technology parks in Uruguay, Chile, Peru and Brazil and GUYANA MAKES NO OVERTURES TO INDIA.
It is not too late for Guyana’s government to wake up; for even right now; India’s Bharti Airtel announces a tentative US$12 billion bid for MTN, a South African mobile phone giant.
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13751556
GUYANA MUST NOT IGNORE ITS HISTORY WHILST OTHER COUNTRIES CONTINUE DAY AFTER DAY TO TAP INDIA’S RICH SEAM OF COMMERCE.

]]> By: Gitanjali Persaud http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/guyana-review/05/28/the-indian-presence-in-guyana/comment-page-1/#comment-153738 Gitanjali Persaud Fri, 29 May 2009 08:09:47 +0000 http://www.stabroeknews.com/?p=46903#comment-153738 This piece misses a very important element -the annihalation of the caste system in Guiana. Additionally, Christianity did not gradually take hold, It was the only means by which Guianese could have gotten an education. And on the politics, the rivals for Jagan in the colonial period were persons funded by the CIA. Indeed, before Jagan, the rich and prosperous Indians were eligible to seek a seat in the legislature. This piece misses a very important element -the annihalation of the caste system in Guiana.

Additionally, Christianity did not gradually take hold, It was the only means by which Guianese could have gotten an education.

And on the politics, the rivals for Jagan in the colonial period were persons funded by the CIA. Indeed, before Jagan, the rich and prosperous Indians were eligible to seek a seat in the legislature.

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