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Wednesday, January 1. 2025

Erase the Guyanas from your bucket list

With crime and drug gangs, they are not really good for ordinary tourists. It's a shame.




Posted by Bird Dog at 12:23 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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A national state of emergency has been declared last week in Trinidad & Tobago, nearby, due to drug gang violence. Lots of homicides in December, including a large-caliber machine gun attack on the police station in Port of Spain.

Trinidad has a similar story to the Guiana countries - about equally divided between Afro and East Indian ethnicities, 45% each, remaining are native Indians, Chinese, whites. And when I say that, all of them are comprised of mixes. Most of the Caribbean islands are a real melting pot.
#1 Aggie on 2025-01-01 14:01 (Reply)
That's a resounding recommendation for diversity. So, the pot melts and everything leaks and evaporates. Sounds about right.
#1.1 DeGaulle on 2025-01-01 15:04 (Reply)
Reading the Good Book recently, it struck me that the conquering imperial strategy of the Assyrians who sucked up the ten northern tribes of Israel was to disperse them among different cities outside of Israel and to replace and repopulate Ephraim/Northern Israel with people of diverse ethnicities (specifically, worshippers of diverse deities); in other words, to mix it up. "Replacement theory" is no racist fantasy; it remains a favorite strategy of "the powers that be" in the service of the Arch-enemy. At the Jubilee, on the other hand, debts are cancelled and slaves are supposed to return home. (It really is a very good book.)
#2 Slow Learner on 2025-01-01 18:02 (Reply)
Interesting history of the Guyanas. British Guyana was where Jonestown was located and that's about all I ever knew about its history. We once took a half-day excursion on a sail boat that was made up like a pirate vessel in the Caribbean and the first mate was from Guyana. It's a shame I didn't ask him about his background.
#3 sparkee on 2025-01-01 19:31 (Reply)
What a shame what has happened to them. I remember when the Guyanas were renowned for their iguanas and bananas.
#4 Olli on 2025-01-01 20:30 (Reply)
Well now you can see all the iguanas you want in South Florida!
#4.1 Mark Matis on 2025-01-02 06:12 (Reply)
I read a depressing statistic about one of them -- one of the Guyanas has the second highest rate of suicide in the world. Preferred method: Ingesting insecticide. (Lesotho has the highest rate. And it is EXTREMELY high there.)
#5 Lee Also on 2025-01-02 08:08 (Reply)

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