Real Guyana - Mon Repos Market 360 - Part1 

My parents are Guyanese and I love to see these videos because I've never been, but my husband is Egyptian and I've been to Egypt, if you think this is bad you haven't seen anything yet.

Real you love your country..... keep fighting for change... 👌

Thank u for posting those 2 videos, Bailey. I was looking for another to watch but I do not see, it. Guyana is such a lovely place; so rich in natural resources and way of life, in terms of socializing with friends and family. It is sad that conditions remain in this manner, to this day. It wld be so good if something could be done. I have been to Guyana 3 times and I love the culture but I must agree, Guyana has a SERIOUS problem with waste and water.

keep pieces like this coming

Great job !!. It's a site to see some of the things and/or medical hazzards that a regular person who is buying something, especially meat, is not aware of. It also takes a little ingenuity from the vendors also if they want to attract business from customers. It doesn't take alot and judging from the amount of money they are paying for rent I don't think it is enough to maintain such an expanse of filt generated every week but then again it is not an excuse. It is a real haert break though to know all it takes is little collective effort to make it better !! I will keep following and I am definetely going to visit the market when I come back and hopefully find a way to help the vendors.

this is a great video to advertise and displays hard working guyanese making a living also shows the busy hustle and bustle of the East Coast Market life. I've been going to the market since I was born lol and after living abroad for 10 years I love and miss these kinds of videos. as for the improvements etc. it's just like everywhere else the Rich get rich poor get poorer. I've seen Lots of improvement like there an actual toilet now lol but in think the real change has to come from the ppl themselves. like being individually clean and respectful.

we will always support you ,

These conditions are absolutely deplorable. Where are the inspectors? The vendors and the government need to form a public/private partnership and fix this hot mess.

Very good this video.

Did i just finished looking at the latest horror Movie, Wow Another good production well done such a challenge sure got some dam stamina. Keep it up

i looove your videos.

The lady at mark :15+ .... she is well informed and articulate, as a vendor she should be a representative to get the improvements done!

All my 21 yrs of life in Guyana i never knew about that market i never went there n it looks great with lots of fresh things.

The people have to keep the place clean, not just the government . You can't ask people those questions because you can't implement change !

Guyana will NEVER change

Your objectives are commendable and Guyanese people should be very proud of you. Since two of the points of contention are the cleanliness of the market and its infrastructure, both dependent on finances, I look forward to part two promising to discuss more about the income and expenses from your research. It is my understanding that the GY$200.00 per week is grossly insufficient to pay for the cleaning and security personnel much less for maintenance of infrastructure. One thing is very glaring in this video and your others on the garbage situation: Guyanese DO NOT hold themselves accountable for any of it. If change is to happen the Guyanese people MUST become more responsible in their habits and conscious of their environment. This culture of "it's the Government" is only applicable in obvious situations; it isn't in this video. The last lady you interviewed correctly stated, "I can only speak for myself," which is exactly the kind of attitude that is NEEDED. Guyanese market vendors need to be more accountable for the actions and inactions, and should see themselves as complicit in it all. It is my understanding that you had a very long discussion with the last vendor lady you interviewed. I'm curious to know why the rest of the interview was edited and not shown. She said some very insightful things to which you were compelled to question whether or not she lived overseas. The mere fact that you recognized this, demonstrates that there are certain cultural value systems to which both of you subscribe and are able to recognize; the lack thereof in Guyana, which renders the "it's the Government" rhetoric almost obsolete and unnecessary. This idea that the people should be "given" better facilities is unfounded, for from the market's inception they were given and the conditions you documented are resultant. For this reason, from a financial perspective, it is against the interest and more importantly NOT FEASIBLE of/for the N.D.C. to step in and "alleviate" the conditions. As was mentioned before, briefly, there isn't enough money to address the concerns. The income has to support the expenses. In other words, you get what you pay for. Again, I am very much in favor of your work and an avid viewer and I am only making this comment after so long because I think there is a lot more that your journalism can achieve. And I say this recognizing and acknowledging that you need to be cautious and wary.

Guyana is a very beautiful country, I have traveled and I'm proud to be a Guyanese. That's the country where I was born and will always love. People come and try to talk bad about Guyana as if were they come from is so much better. Go to the Chinese supermarket in New York, you don't even know what ur eating. Take a walk down Jamaica Ave. and look at the garbage there, come on ppl the best place I have ever lived is guyana. And Guyanese are proud home owner, not them square box apartment they living in and can hardly walk in it. So to those who wanna bad talk Guyana get a live

Thanks. 😀

man watching this video just killed my spirit. Was thinking i wanted to come to Guyana when i retire, unless things change in 20 years i have to look elsewhere

I love Guyana there's indian people very good heart and nice person... I'm lucky i mate my two Guyanese Facebook friends at Mumbai India

I'm from Guyana, Peter's hall on the east bank.i live in the states and i pray that we guyanese hold on to our culture and not want to mirror the U.S..

Real Guyana, should show this video to the city government health dept. They should then close down that place because it is unsafe, and a danger to public health.

the cat on the septic tank look like something out of a horror movie.

beautiful we love what you are doing, thank you

beautiful Guyana. .land of the free

So I see that they've shut the market down. Hopefully it's for the better and if this is as a result of your efforts, I would like to say well done!

Great video, thanks! These people need to form a cooperative and start fresh at a new location. Pool their money and develop a new market that has refrigeration, sanitary facilities and health code. This is not hard to but they need help.

Well done. This is a damn disgrace, absolutely shocking and an indictment of the political leadership of Guyana. Keep up the good work.

I see nice brocoli love it

don't the vendors have a responsibility to maintain the cleanliness of the market too??? shame on the government too

I am Brazilian, I have worked and lived in Angola Africa, it is not very different from the fairs in your country, even in Brazil there are many fairs like this one, I am interested in Guyana because is the only English speaking country in South America, congratulations on the video.

Its. A very good video! Because what you are seeing is what exactly what gos on in third world counties. such as guyana and many more

Real guyana...Good job so far. You are reporting current conditions.However, chronic complainers are usually not the providers of the solution. Are you willing to provide an action plan for the solution? The guyanese people will be appreciative.

no go back I wanted to hear what that lady brother them did at the lady house who keep falling down.

Greetings from India

Guyana faces a severe sanitation problem. It is outrageous and can cause and lead up to several different health conditions that can result in death and sickness. I am not from Guyana I am from North America but it is safe to say that bringing in contractors from foreign countries such as the US to create a plan for pollution reduction will be one of the best plans on Guyana plate.

This was two years ago, are there any changes since this video? Give us a update please

Guyana is a very beautiful country ,sticking rich , gold , diamond , bauxite , sugar , rice , coconut , now we discover oil ,the coast land where most of the people live ,the land in the interior is still to be discover .We have 100 's of species in wild life and animals species ,snakes , the anaconda ,the pirana

True all they do is complain no matter how old the place it it's fine but is how u keep your part clean it and u all good but some people just nasty and complain clean up your mess and stop blaming others simple as that and Guyana don't have that much sick so relax ppl some of u eat dirt growing up which make your immune system stronger so enough with your healthy talks

Amazing toilet! 0:22

Guyana es bonito me gusta Guyana

You should visit Port Mourant market. Its the best. Im from Corentyne Berbice. Please come visit our market in Rose Hall and Port Mourant.

Real Guyana, Mon Repos market needs completely overhauling, shame shame shame!

I wonder how much of that food is contaminated by the toxic waste in the ground, water and air.

38:30 The woman speak better English than the 1st and 2nd generation Guyanese-American women over here in NY...

This channel doesn't seem to be active anymore. It would be cool to get an update video

I don't understand why everybody is hating on the video.

5:35 the gaffing begins lol!

Pigs walking in the streets, dogs wandering around the markets, standing water, flies everywhere. I'd be afraid to eat anything if I ever visited. You got oil now. Clean that damn place up!

Lloyd mitchell says If you hadnt filmed it no one would have believd it

I would like to move there and build a new market. And charge cheaper rent!!!

Tha place nah look like that any more. You get double lane run both side. That part of East Coast gone up. Smooth road.

A Lot Of People Keep Saying What A Nasty Place And Its The Same Nasty Place They Buying From 😕😕

This show will be a great show.. A step to progress is to slow down the video or your pace and allow us to look at the produce it's "eye candy" and no less interesting than pornography of which I prefer the produce and sceneries... But thumbs up on activating your ideas...👍👍

Clean running water is very important no one can do much with out clean water

The people who are incharge of the market need to do their job,,it's dirty and bad for tourism

Pls do a starbrook market

The eloquent camera.

In Guyanese parlance: Food a knack dag hay bai!

I am not Guyanese but I have relatives who are. The funny this is they are blaming the current government who just came back into power for the last 3 or 4 years for everything. What did the past government who was there for over 30 years do for the country. I used to go to Guyana when it was a beautiful country. Was there a heath department? Or was this the standard of the people who ran the country when pertaining to the country itself. The politicians have really destroyed the birth place of my forefathers.

2.53.. lata mangeshkar .. thandi hawaain lehra ke aayein...

More customers that's the only problem those market people have... 😜😁

That who you need sanatry inspector to make sure they dispose the wasted trash in the proper ways or else some don't cares so the market place can be sanatised for all the peoples are paying a fees to sell in market so management should for the peoples pay the workers so they can do their jobs and keep market sanity.

I hope you do advocate for those people Do not let their grievances fall on deaf ears

Have you Blue Java for sale ?

The should build a side walk by raising tax in that area

It's been 7 months sine this video had been uploaded. That's basically a year almost. I wonder how it looks nowadays

What a shame. Mon Repos Market was the tops when I left in 1983

question why stands or markets were not build for the vendors with a better environment and business standards outside the government responsibility ?

Is there blue java banana in guiana ?

I couldn't watch this after 5 minutes, I've never seen a place selling edibles in such an unsanitary environment.

Very Busy, and it is only in the mid of the week:

The average cost in Canada right now for a house particularly in Ontario is about 1 million dollars Canadian. And that's going to be a house that's going to be a fixer upper. This will not be a house that's a mansion. Guyana does not realize how much more Rich it is than all the so-called first world countries. The first world countries may have clean streets but remember our population is larger than yours so we actually have just as much crime if not more than you do. Our cost of living is much higher our tax bracket is higher and nobody can afford anything in Canada. The only rich people in Canada and the USA are foreign immigrants that are wealthy from China and the middle East and India. They are not white people here that are rich. Truly the majority of people that have the money in Canada in the USA are all wealthy immigrants that are generationally wealthy.

Watching these videos, one would think that here is nothing redeemable or positive about Guyana. This is depressing, it would be nice to also see a mix of the bad as well as the good in Guyana.

Gross, all kind of diseases in that market. Sorry didn't mean to say that but in Canada, we are NOT used to see this.

Well the government need to make a change the need to look at Thailand

I dnt think i will eble to go there, is thete nomac in the stors how they selling dresses or what's you called. no ac. whyyy

EVERY1 STOP PAY NDC....!

i've seen that mon repos name in other countries as well like haiti. what does it mean? looks like lots of coruption going on.

Daaayum... Every dog I saw was POOnTed

This is a dam disgrace how people in these Guyana markets have to operate/work in nasty conditions, especially after they pay a fee to conduct their business for selling stalls/rental stalls. President Granger need to get off his ass and help to get people accountable for not providing venders with proper working conditions or he will be just like the old administrations. I hope this video get to someone in the government that gives a dam.

Yes Guyana might have its political problems and it might have issues with terrible plumbing issues with houses and housing and general waste being on the streets and things not being as clean as it could be. But if you people would just wake up and educate yourself and learn about your own ability to grow food and other ways that you can become innovative to fix all of your own problems you will not need to rely on government or anybody. The issue is you're still stuck in colonialism and you're trying to adopt a way of living as if it's a Western country and so you've got plumbing and houses that are built upon that system which just does not work in your kind of environment. What you guys need are people that understand your weather and your environment and can adopt housing and food according to the weather and the environment. And if you lived in a more self-sustainable way which you guys are completely capable of doing more so than Canadians or Americans because you have better weather than we do. Then you would be able to sort out all of your problems. Your government is stupid I know this. Just like the Canadian government is a complete idiot especially Justin Trudeau he's a fool. The point is all country governments are corrupt. As a people you as humanity and especially you specifically because you guys were the last freestanding rainforest left on planet Earth and unfortunately that was sold off to Norway and then sold to the USA for the Keystone XL pipeline which you've got oil now in Guyana we should supposed to help you with your economics but let's be real it's not helping the people with the economics it's only helping your corrupted government which is pocketing all the money for themselves. Anyway the point is if you people can just educate yourself and stop complaining about the government and stop thinking that white people from Canada and the USA or missionaries are going to get you out of your funk. Just empower yourselves with the internet man learn how to build your own housing and grow your own food and build your own self-sustainable habitat. You will not need the government for anything you can make it yourselves honest to God. The only people that complain about the government and all that are people that are not educating themselves to lift themselves out of that situation. Guyana has a very bad misperception that Canada and the USA is rich it totally is not it just is overpopulated with a lot of people struggling to make it and some people are lucky and some people like many like the majority are not. We do not have the good weather that Guyana has to grow food 365 days a year.

where is the authority who is responsible for the hygenic conditationof the market,

I got lost in the comments. True be told, everyone whose toes turned up when they saw the condition gasped. Keep showing these videos. Those real estate people who are pushing the mansions for people to buy, should improve these places instead. Market vendors are satisfied with this condition or they would pool together to make it better. They are waiting on the govt and not themselves. Years ago we had village council who is in charge? Too much long talk. Very disheartening no positive ideas from the men.

Health code violations everywhere.

The chopping board looks like it have maggots crawling over it !

HEALTH DEPARTMENT NEED TO VISIT AND INSPECT THOSE INFECTED STAND. OR CLOSE IT DOWN UNTIL CLEAN.

From what I see, the meat and seafood section needs serious overhauling.

What with the hole in the wall in the toilets

Get the prisoners to clean up George Town Street and markets, and drains..

Believe it your country is more Rich than the USA and Canada combined. The amount of food that you guys have access to and can grow because of your weather. You have cleaner air and richer soil than we do. North Americans literally Source their food globally which is actually not good for the environment and also not good for North Americans particularly our own Farmers that grow food seasonally. The point is you have much more nutritious food than North Americans have access to. I know that you will say that Canada and USA are so-called developed countries but trust me they are not the average American and Canadian cannot afford to buy a house and they are poor and in debt 50% of Canadians are out of jobs or if they have work or employment is very low paying wages.

THAT IS ONE OF THE PLACES BESIDES GEORGETOWN WHERE I WOULD NEVER GO. HOW CAN YOU BUY STUFF TO COOK AFTER SMELLING ALL THAT STINK. SHAME ON MANAGEMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT.

I often wonder if the people you talk to know who you are and about your youtube channel and as I continue watching especially what the young male adult and hairdresser reveal its such gross human violations. You ever think about running for President? you can cause a huge shake up in how people think!

omg the market is small and dirty, and look dogg there also omgg

We always get fresh fish, meat and vegetables, not them tasteless things u get here.

bet that market look cleaner than most of the people home that have negative comments

I'm going to Guyana in about 2 weeks. I'm afraid of getting sick from the water or food there.

Jesus goverments eyes r bline to see these markets r vert dirty n full of sickness n need to re do in good condition these people still have hope for something better look how all the markets in suriname r clean n build with stone building with accesse to clean toilette n clean washing , the poeple who is reponsible of these dirt they should go n work in the place of these peoples

That's a nasty market, I would never buy anything there. Looks like a health hazard.

those animals all about, horses also noway