From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visitwww.kinolibrary.... Clip ref KHM40 1960s Georgetown Guyana Local Caribbean Life, 16mm Colour Home Movies
I was born in England of Guyanese parents and of Indian origin and proud of it. I've travelled to Guyana many times since 1989, my last trip 2018. My parents always spoke highly British Guiana how they were brought up during colonial rule. Comments made are respected, but I've always liked Guyana and it's people's. Yes, some of you are right the horrible past is still with some but Guyanese are friendly and joyful people and united. It was the British and US who divided a people because it didn't suit them. Divide and rule. Common practice instigated by colonialist. Divided India,Parts of Africa. Still happening today. Yes, Guyana was cleaner, safer, but suppression by your own politicians, corruption, hate etc 1960's was bad for all Guyanese. Today Guyana is changing and I've see change. Oil is a big change for Guyana economy and hopefully it's people and country. The distribution of wealth. I do love Guyana and it's people. Government MUST make Guyana a crime less, clean, safe, corruption free and a united nation, only then will you have a golden society. Furthermore stop the influx of Chinese nationals and other foreign investors who want to exploit it's lush rainforest, rivers, more mining for gold etc. Guyana is a blessed land and I hope it NEVER becomes like any other country. Let it remain unique. Love the old footage of Guyana. Keep posting.
Fantastic pictures. It would be so good to have a voiceover on this video, telling us about the places we see and the way of life then. So useful for people like me who were born there but grew up in another country.
Both my parents are Guyanese and it was a pleasure to see this 60s video placed on RU-vid for prosperity and as a snapshot of the past. I would love to see more if anyone can post any footage of Guyana in the past.. I can almost imagine the love that my dad had, and still has to this day, for the country of his birthplace. Not everyone will agree with me but from what I have heard when the British ruled what was known as British Guiana and controlled by them, Guyana was by far a better place and some people with rose-tinted glasses describe it as a place of paradise and relative safety. Not any more sadly since its independence in 1966.. Linden Forbes Berham, corruption, murder and crime has changed this once up and coming prosperous country and transferred it into the unsafe, abused and poverty stricken place it is today. Once upon a time the Guyanese people got along far better and they were kinder and respectful towards each other. Will, or can Guyana ever return to the good ol' days given that the best people and minds leave as soon as they can?
Well at the end of the day, we are just third world people with third world standards. But yes, Georgetown Guyana was called a Garden City, it was truly beautiful, (when the country belonged to the British).
Just asking were there a very large wooden cathedral in George town ?I don't if I am talking about or some other place that this cathedral is in but I do remember a long time ago I heard about the cathedral either in Guyana or could be one of its neighboring countries,please inform me ,I love history, I love historic buildings.
Don’t be fooled by these images, read, research what the British was really doing to our people in Guyana. Educate yourself and open your eyes. It was a brutal regime.
Its until recently that I discovered material that causes me to understand how the British were the one who segregated the Indians and the blacks and left Guyana with the legacy of racial tension. Never understand why they were predominantly Indian villages and then predominantly black villages. Reading up on our history is very important.
Brutal regime my foot. Maybe that was needed. The British came and brought with them their culture which fused with Caribbean culture. We learned English thanks to them. Look how clean organized and refined people are. Yes maintain your culture but the British taught them decorum.
Guyana today has sadly become a tin pot country with corruption at its political heart and corruption itself sadly turns the wheels of power in this resource rich country with less than 800,000 people that is the size of Britain. Everyone knows how bad things are but sadly little is ever done about it. Thankfully my parents and most of their family escaped Guyana in the late 60s and 70s and are spread across Canada, America, and the UK - where I am from and live today. I have only been to Guyana when I was a little boy and my parents visit sometimes, but I am told that I have to be careful and for my own personal safety and I can't visit Guyana on my own. The murder rate in Guyana a couple of years ago was nearly 19 per one hundred thousand people - compare this to the UK where there is 1.2 murders per one hundred thousand people.
@@essarroyrupchand4007 Guyana was ruined by its own people you can't pass the blame on the British who, at the bequest of its leaders, gave independence to this fruitful and once well developed country. Tin pot - Guyana lacks credibility given the extreme and high scale levels of corruption.
@@chrissaltaur1254 Do research to know why the British was giving independence to it's colonies. I agree that Guyana was ruined by it's own people and there is high level of corruption. But tell me during which period Guyana was a "once well developed country".
@@essarroyrupchand4007 I've read books and articles concerning Guyanese independence. There's numerous factors to explain how Guyana got itself into its current state. Heres an example of how Guyana was a better developed country: Did you know that Guyana was the first country on the South American mainland to establish a railway? The first section, from Georgetown to Plaisance was opened in 1848. With short sightedness Bernham scrapped the railway in 1972 when fuel was cheap and the railway had he felt become uneconomical. Guyana had a lower rate of crime before independence. Violent crime today is prevalent across Guyana. It is often associated with illegal drug trafficking. Homicides, assaults, break-ins, armed robberies, theft from cars and carjackings are common. In my grandfather's day crime just wasn't as common and Guyana was safer.
