Tell me where in any hindu religious book god is asking you for more than saying his name or thinking his name.

Quote me the passage that says you have to pray wid ghee and mahanbhog etc. Show it to me you donut.

I am not going to justify Burnhames ban, but some of you people try to go over the top as if that was the greatest crime in the world.

You know what i say today, give me back burnhames ban of food items and give us back the security we had back then and the economy we had back then vs. this madness we are seeing day in day out.

Compared to the great achievements of the PPP we have seen the past 17 years Burnham is looking like a genius. DD is damn right.

Although I lived in Guyana for the first nineteen years of my life, somehow I’ve never encountered any form of Racism personally. I heard older folks talking about the subject, but back then, it was never a serious 24/7 life and death discrimination or marginalization controversy. It appeared that anybody who was entitled to, eventually got their fair piece of the pie.

However, slick unscrupulous and immoral politicians have employed the race card as an election tactic to differentiate the platform planks between the two major political parties. The tragedy of this visionless and untimely strategy was that, it unknowingly facilitated the harboring of severe distrust and sometimes dislike between the African and the East Indian.

I don’t know who was the original strategist behind ‘APAN JHAAT’ as a tactic to flat out win votes, but it has resulted in what is now called ‘tit for tat’ Race and Ethnic politics. Unfortunately, this have devoured the uniqueness of issues or the different choices available to the electorate. In other words, it forced voters to choose sides based on Race and Ethnicity even when doing such may have been against their own interest.

Racism as a political strategy during election time has not only robbed the Guyanese people of knowing the relevance of the party issues and platforms. It has eventually spilled over into every aspect of our relationship as a people, making us always suspicious of each other’s motivation on the simplest of issues.

Abu Bakr, let’s hope that the historians who will finally write Guyana’s epitasis are clever enough to decipher the fact from the fiction of this national man made catastrophe.

I dont believe no body suffered more than me during the ban, so stop this thing that wheat flour and peas has something ethnic or cultural about it. Every non East Indian person was using Flour and peas for more than a 100 years before the ban. Matter of a fact slaves were using these same comodities during slavery and correct me if i am wrong. Tell me at what point does Wheat Flour and Peas become associated Culturally with Non East Indian Guyanese? Because i am waiting eagerly to know when i can make the same claim as you, being a Non East Indian.

I think Mohamed made the most sense or speak the turth on this issue since 1992.

Coolieman you really give alot of credit to the author of this article matter of a fact you embodied everything he wrote.

Please stop the hate and just tell us explicitly how the ban affected YOU. Maybe we can then compare you experiences with that of a Non East Indian to SEE WHO SUFFERED MORE, which is your cry.

suffice to say the last [2] sentences of Abu’s missive is the thrust of of his attempt to proffer thoughts to reconciliation !……………..

still many like this will be offered ,, but it is “education” that will only be the means to the end which is harmony of being
” one people ” under the “Golden Arrow Head” !….

it could be achieved ,, in 7 years ,, or at the very least ,, being so that at our 50ieth there can be objectives to achieve ,, and a total transformation in the next 50 ,, only thru EDUCATION !!!!!!!!!!!!

my simple thoughts on fostering a nation of GUYANESE !

not indo and afro ,, we is neither any of the two any more than we is west indians ! dem live pon islands ,, WE live and is part of a continent !……