Of Christmas, Commerce, Chinatown and Cricket

Cosmo Hamilton

In New York, a multi-ethnic melting pot of a city, like others in the United States such as San Francisco and Chicago, and around the world like London, there is a vibrant, heavily commercial community called Chinatown. In New York the major portion of the Chinese community is located in lower Manhattan centered around a busy thoroughfare called Canal Street. It is an area that is teeming with shoppers, tourists, and constantly jammed with snarled vehicular traffic. It is where you could find from watches to widgets, and from a pin to a pagoda. In Chinatown you could purchase a Rolex watch that is not a Rolex watch.

Is our former garden city Georgetown affectionately known overseas as GT cultivating its very own Chinatown? Maybe. Areas around Stabroek and Bourda markets, and Water Street, Robb Street,