Thoughts of a minibus traveller

  Pumpkin  Man in the market asks if I want the pumpkin cut at $400 which is the same as 2 pounds of carailla and 2.5 pounds of ochro and I say no, then I see that it dry and look nice and I have not cooked pumpkin for a long time as the price was too much in the oil and gas luxury range .  Visitor to Guyana asks me 'is that grown here?" and when I tell him yes , the man said "wow, that is so expensive"  and I tell him since oil flowing, the vegetables and fruits more expensve and he ask me why  and I say, 'I don't know'.  Kadoo And is a nice pumpkin and I think would be nice to make something else other than the regular pumpkin and the internet throw up 'Borani Kadoo' ..   کدو Kadoo  - is Pashto/Urdu/Persian for pumpkin though the pumpkin might be a different one from the expensive one which growing in Guyana. And 'Borani Kadoo'.. as with food, so many different ways to cook it. All start with slicing the pumpkin into thin slices and dee...

  Invasions  Day after USA invade Venezuela and kidnap the dictator Maduro, the man who supports PPP because he feel that no one else better while also afraid of the PPP - asks me 'So what yall gun do now about Farnum Playground"?   Residents of Subryanville  have been calling on the Government agencies to restore Farnum Playground to the community after the occupation of the land by private business interests who to this date, remain unknown. Much like the appeals to the United Nations on the other occupations in the world, it seems the residents' calls on the Central Housing and Planning Authority, the Ministry of Education, The Ministry of Local Government, the Mayor and City Council are going to be useless because the only thing matters as the USA Government showed last Saturday.. law does not matter, only power.  Venezuela/Guyana In April 2002, a woman sitting next to me in the square in Havana who offered me one of the cakes she was eating asked me i...