Guyana SPEAKS - Forbes Burnham: The life and times of the Comrade Leader - 24th March 2024
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- This Guyana SPEAKS event was held on 24th March 2024 at 3.30pm UK time. The distinguished speaker, Emeritus Professor Linden Lewis, spoke to the audience about his newly published book, Forbes Burnham: The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader.
The publishers of the book observe that: "It is virtually impossible to understand the history of modern Guyana without understanding the role played by Forbes Burnham. As premier of British Guiana, he led the country to independence in 1966 and spent two decades as its head of state until his death in 1985. An intensely charismatic politician, Burnham helped steer a new course for the former colony, but he was also a quintessential strongman leader, venerated by some of his citizens yet feared, distained and despised by others."
The book is available in print and digital formats. You can receive a 20% discount online* using code: LLF23 Copy and paste the following link below:
www.combinedacademic.co.uk/97...
*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 30th June 2024. Discount only applies to the CAP website.
LINDEN F. LEWIS is a professor emeritus of sociology at Bucknell University. Co-author of the book 'Caribbean Masala: Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad', he has also edited the collections 'Color, Hair and Bone: Race in the Twenty-First Century', 'The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean', and 'Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization'.
Guyana SPEAKS was co-founded in January 2017 by Rod Westmaas and Juanita Cox. They host a regular stream of events aimed at the Guyanese diaspora and anyone interested in all things Guyanese. To find out more about their community activities contact Guyana SPEAKS via guyanaspeaks@gmail.com, via Facebook or Twitter @JCWestmaas.
Greetings to you from Guyana . I've really enjoyed this video. Congratulations to professor Linden Lewis on the writing of this book. Thanks Ms Cox for putting this together. We, particularly Guyanese need to examine our history objectively and with the coming of this book should enable us to examine the man through a different lens. Mr Burnham was the man who implemented the National Insurance Scheme(NIS) in 1969 which was greatly opposed by his opposition leader Dr. Cheddi Jagan of the PPPC. From since that time, all those PPPC leaders who are/were beneficiaries of the NIS! I have to get my hands on this book.
LFSB was the undisputed President of the Coop Republic of Guyana, he was the best President
Guyana ever had, he did great for his country , he taught us how to be self sufficient, his teachings
still resonate to this day, feed house and clothe yourselves, Guyanese for the last 25 years have
gotten lost, we have no factories of any kind in Guyana, we import more foreign foods, we buy Chinese clothing,
we still have blackouts on a constant basis, we still have brown drinking water in 2024, we have a
lawless Capital city, no proper traffic rules, loud music playing in residential areas, Guyanese
consume more alcohol Sunday to Sunday, Guyana name has been attached to being the transshipment drug capital
of the world, Oh were is Forbes vision....?
That’s for stupid people. He’s a dictator
of where is burnam...... to continue de TOTAL fuckin up of the country ,, followed by his bastard son ,, de architect of de d'urban park 'green heart' WASTE....... inter alia ,, n juss suh y'al know the FIRST PREMEIR of what is now GUYANA...... but like every thing else before n now deflection n distortion of the TRUTH is y'al domain...... guh suh wid y'al racist bullshit
Like you forget that we know who was burnman
We know who East Indian Guyanese is too.
The Brilliant LFS Burnham lives rent free in all empty head untouchables.
Guyana remains the same way today.
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🤡@@WinstonMaraj-gx8sm
Very informative and Narrator’s and neutral.
What did Burnham do with the money from the sales of the railway from Rosighnol to Parika in Guyana . He took the money from England over 54 million british pounds that were for the East Indian.
African slaves were in Guyana 200 years before you, East India, came to Guyana. Slave labor is what built Guyana, where is money to pay descendants of African slaves for their free labor in Guyana?
Being in a country before anyone else is irrelevant.
Reparations for the African brothers and sisters has nothing to do with East Indians,Chinese,Portuguese or Indigenous Folks.That has to be dealt with by the Western Europeans who committed these terrible crimes.@josephwinslow7613
54 million pounds back in those days, Boy Burnham could have bought the United Kingdom.......
hafizkhan 4031 Gaza is calling you, Israel 🇮🇱 have the monies, go ask them for it .
@StevenBiko1 hea, dumb ,dumb , Gaza didn't rape and pilfer the wealth from the Guyanese treasury . Please enlighten me about the sale and the money from that sale and who got rich from all the steel from Rosighnol to Parika in Guyana.Is that too difficult for you or the rest of the PNCITES to do.Come on ,I guess you were in your mother womb when that transactions took place with the Railway.
Those years were black out days.
So, what makes today's difference?
rumram 9694 you are getting more blackout currently,,enjoy it.
@@StevenBiko1 and dutty wata fo drink
THE BRILLIANT LFS BURNHAM WAS A LEADER OF A NATION AND MEN. HE IS A PATRIOTIC SON OF GUYANA 🇬🇾 SOIL .
Burnham was a visionary and transformational leader.
@@geralda.perreiraovpguyana948Quite correct!¡!!
He transformed Guyana from the Caribbean's Breadbasket into a land worse than Haiti.
I expected that from you as an Indo-Guyanese. However, he is loved by the African Guyanese masses. Burnham is their hero@@WinstonMaraj-gx8sm
The Brilliant LFS Burnham is our hero, we ❤him ✊🏿
@StevenBiko1 I backed up Mugabe in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s as I KNOW EXAC5LY what would happen to Zimbabwe.
I am supporting Julius Malema these daes to become the President of South Africa!!¡
Imagine what will happen to South Africa once he becomes the President.🤣😂😂😂👌👌👌👍👊👊
We can see that this writer is one of Burnham haters his writings is based on propaganda
Why all these folks who talk about Burnham live outside of guyana. Those days we were starving and they call that glorious day .Burnham just wanted power
He was not killing or fighting his own family members over land, property, insurance, money and material things like people like you. And since he dead for over 36 years, you and your kind has not change your ways because you are still greedy.
Burnham taught us to be self sufficient and grow your own foods, stop importing all those
cans foods that make you all sick with cancer ,diabetes, high blood pressure, and so much more,
give praises to the visioner LFSB.......
The Brilliant LFS Burnham was a genuine leader, a man’s man, not a puppet figure head that is currently installed to so called govern .
BREAD BREAD BREAD , GOT BREAD ???
Chaitram the rum head alcoholic ,rum till I die, rum till I die , rum rum rum .
Moist of what you people are talking about is share propaganda
This man used to got you in black out days and weeks and band all the food item 1973 he was the third richest blackman in the world have in million of us dollers in the swiss bank where did he get thst money from tell the people from guyana the truth
Proof it. Plus, no other races of Guyanese are as greedy as East Indian Guyanese. Bribery is part of your culture. Fighting and killing for land, property, money and other material things are part of your culture, even if it is means fighting and killing your own family members. "you cannot even trust a dead East Indian Guyanese". Isn't that a popular Guyanese saying? For a reason.
markshaw you are a typical ill informed coward untouchable.
Now, 8386, Koohlie mahn ahn Madras Koohlie mahn benefited the most from Burnham's nationalist-patriotic-autocratic policies.
As it is today, East Indians are the business people, while the Africans are the consumers.
In the Caribbean, South America, and Latin America, Bharrat Jagdeo and Mohamed Arfaan Ali are said to be the richest vice-president and president, respectively.
True or false?
@@wyndhl8309 black people dont no how yo save money the does sport out the money you givr thrm 1million dollers it done in one week.and have notimg to show make in a set of children all over the place snd do not take care of them and bring in on more poverty on the selft
HOW COME A BOLD FACES LIERS WHO RACIST KNOW NO LIMITS REUAD
GAZA 🔥
Delusional folks,these morons here praising a criminal. He made it easy fir the GREAT,INDOMITABLE PPP-CIVIC to now beat the living daylights out of Linden's Party of Nothingness and Corruption. 45IN25 for the GREAT,INDOMITABLE PPP-CIVIC next year.
You are bragging about the PPP political party that Mr Burnham was a cofounder. Majority of your malnourished people’s are currently suffering under their visionless governance. Your kinds are historical cowards untouchable, you will witness a major surprise. @@WinstonMaraj-gx8sm
Riggers, liars and corruption are most fitting.
To describe the People Progressive Party..
@@theturbo1958Maturity of leadership. Management skills and unity of all Guyanese. Sustained development. Fair elections.
@@petesam1911. The pppee criminal cabal, masquerading as a political party.
Immigration question, an irony;
Education President, "Free" Education;
Father of the Nation: 1966 (& 1970)
Defence of the nation - Venezuela-Guyana Row;
Emigration from Guyana incresed from the mid-1950's to England during the colonial era;
Self-help in house-building;
Planting and gardening have always been a part of Guyanese life;
Negative impact of sugar worker's and rice farmer's Stricks on the health of the Guyanese people?
Carifesta;
Death?😮
Nationalism and Patriotism;
Cheddi hadn't a chance as premier - not Prime Minister - in 1957 to 1964, Guyana's being still a colonial child of England with a governor from Britain;
Linden's bias against Burnham, not unlike mine, may be founded on Burnham's reported orchestration of the assassination of Dr. Walter Rodney 😮😢
Question
Was Burnham's Pan-African slant inferior to or superior to his apparent egocentricism?😮😢😅
Burnham?
Right place, right time;
Cheddi, a weak opposition, led by his wife Janet;
63?
Heavy smoker!
Backed by U.S.A. & U.K.
(Linden has done a research and doesn't know about the Protocol of Port of Spain, spearheaded in 1970 by Dr. Eric Williams of Trinidad!)
Janet Rosenberg-Jagan, greatest ideological influence on Burnham;
Janet Rosenberg-Jagan was/is the primary face of the socioeconomic (and racist) shape of Guyana;
More Donald J Trump than Papa Doc.
2.5**: mediocre research and very poor analysis 😮😢😅
Burnaham had sold jones town for us and took the money
Jagdeo sold our rain forest and took the money also, ask Sue......