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could have call our home , the economy was good free medical , free education with books free land free water , the only bad thing i know that he did was stop all imported food ,His reason for changing course was to strenghten the economy of the country , we were heading in a direction that would have cripple every poor man . He made that decision based on the wealth of the country , Guyana is a very rich country rich in mineral ,bauxite , food and oil untouch. Today i learn that most of the food was junk, the international market was shipping the poorest grade of food to us , i am glad he banned some of those stuff , I am currently Living in the USA and i've seen all kind of illness in this country and most of them came from the intake of the food the grew up on , When
Burnham expire in 1985 his successor brought back all the things Burnham banned and that was the down spiral for guyana ,Now everything change ,we have poor medical , poor education standard ,high crime , paying for water ,no more free land and a bunch of thieves in the goverment sector , even the police is thieves go figure that. Larry 02/21/07
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visors don't want the rust showing through so it will never be a balanced article. - "Burnham was one of the founding leaders of the People's
Progressive Party (PPP), which was launched on January 1, 1950; the Indo-Guyanese labor leader Cheddi Jagan became PPP Leader, while Burnham became its Chairman. In 1952, Burnham became the president of the party's affiliated trade union, the British Guiana Labour Union, in 1952. In 1953, the PPP won 18 of 24 seats in the first election permitted by the British colonial government. In the short-lived PPP government that followed, Burnham served as Minister of Education." - The article is trying to put Jagan as the communist...while BOTH of them were very far left leaning SOCIALISTS....Thats why they were in the SAME PARTY. BURNHAM left and formed the other party because he was cajoled and propped and promised "things" by the British...but it was in fact the Americans who were pulling all the strings..including the strings of the British government/colonial government office
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Keep in mind this is just a matter of oppinion , and that we all have . There is no proven fact that
Burnham was a racist or byas , Burnham did lead Guyana and did it his way , he also had Indians in various goverment position . As i could remember clearly when Burnham was alive guyana was a place we
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People keep changing the information trying to leave out all the bad "stuff". this man was in power for over 30 years yet the info is like an 4 year term MP. it does not matter how many coats of paint you try to slap on this article regarding this man, the rust will still show through, and the re
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Most and some dont have the same meaning. According to the information...he banned some items ...no he Banned all if not most imported food items. and this was the mid 1970's. I'm sure no where in the word in the mid 70's were there even talking about healty food except the U.S....and even that I
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