Talk:Forbes Burnham

message: This article paints an accurate description of guyana under burhum leadership. he was clearly just like the uganda "president for life" idi amein dada who took his country from a well organized structure and threw it into kaos. neither of these guys knew anything about economics and both were racists. I was a child in burham times and seen for myself how bad things were in guyana during the 1970's . this article is very accurate and actually paints a good picture of him in my opinion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.233.84.53 (talk) 02:40, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Claims are not supported

message: Previous article was not very objective and contained personal interpretations. I totally reworked pulling out the facts as best as possible. It now needs to be expanded.)  Roopster 15:03, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reworked article 

message: Why no mention of his seedy dealings with this group?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.89.152 (talk) 10:57, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peoples Temple 

message: while he did a nice job of trying improve the health (hospital...free still I think, for whatever little it can provide these days) and sustain free public school education and then university....
We forgot the main part of his biography...where he took over a country that was not in too bad shape after the British left...and ran it into the ground.
Burnham was a racist against everyone except his family. Don't forget he also successfully set up a bomb blast for Walter Rodney, a well known known Black Guyanese University professor who was also talking out against him. He became someone that most normal people feared.
He engage in Stalinist? imagery and propaganda (see his photo on this page), and was feared by most of opponents, and the public  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starbwoy (talk • contribs) 01:52, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forgot!!! 

message: 1. He made university education totally free
2. Made hospitals free (few or no countries in the Caribbean have this) 
2. He maintained a strong education system, for a poor counry.Starbwoy (talk) 20:18, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few positives Now 

message: People keep changing the information trying to leave out all the bad "stuff". this man was in power for over 30 years yet the info is like an 4 year term MP. 
it does not matter how many coats of paint you try to slap on this article regarding this man, the rust will still show through, and the re visors don't want the rust showing through so it will never be a balanced article. 
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"Burnham was one of the founding leaders of the People's Progressive Party (PPP), which was launched on January 1, 1950; the Indo-Guyanese labor leader Cheddi Jagan became PPP Leader, while Burnham became its Chairman.[1] In 1952, Burnham became the president of the party's affiliated trade union, the British Guiana Labour Union, in 1952. In 1953, the PPP won 18 of 24 seats in the first election permitted by the British colonial government. In the short-lived PPP government that followed, Burnham served as Minister of Education.[2]"
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The article is trying to put Jagan as the communist...while BOTH of them were very far left leaning SOCIALISTS....Thats why they were in the SAME PARTY. BURNHAM left and formed the other party because he was cajoled and propped and promised "things" by the British...but it was in fact the Americans who were pulling all the strings..including the strings of the British government/colonial government officeStarbwoy (talk) 00:08, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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