Dear Editor,
I went for a drive up the coast last weekend and I saw something that I hadn’t seen since I was much younger. One of my closest friends commented that “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” with reference to the scene we were witnessing. Please see the attached photo.
Yours faithfully,
Michael C. Lam
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That still happens occasionally on the Corentyne. Don’t you know it’s cheaper to move a small wooden house than to build one in Guyana? Next you’ll be asking what are those strange creatures with large claws? and when one of them clap a hold on you, you’ll yell, “Oh @#$%! de crab bite me!”
Hahaha – good one – I remember a cousin of mine returning to Guyana and pointing to a common house frog and exclaiming ‘what is that creature’ – lol – indeed, if it had jumped on her, you would have seen how quickly she would have identified that ‘creature’ correctly!
Something is quite unsafe here.What I see is a police laughing and no red flag.What is really absent here is a number of things.A sign preceeding,and at the rear of the moving building stating, WIDE LOAD. Red flags placed at all four corners of the building.A cautionary vehicle not only at the front, but at the rear of the vehicle transporting the house.This ensures that no outside lane traffic gets between the moving house and the cautionary vehicles. A permit to move this house,and one for blocking an entire lane thus impeding smooth flow of traffic.
I hope that Mr Lam is not implying that there is something wrong with the picture? I see trailer houses (ugly, ugly vinyl ones) being transported in similar fashion regularly along the I-81 corridor in New York state, also attended by state or other security. It is fantastic that this handsome wooden cottage–with beautiful proportions and a wonderfully made door so typical of Guyana’s vernacular architecture –is being recycled!