GUYANA: HIGHBURY

In this this 5th episode of the series GUYANA, the News Room’s Neil Marks travels to the village of Highbury, Berbice where the first set of East Indians landed on My 5th, 1838. The visit inspired him to look for his own relatives who came from India, tracing back his heritage to a 20-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh and a 19-year-old man from Punjab who boarded a ship in Calcutta and were assigned to the sugar plantation at Anna Regina when they landed here.

[@chandulalsukhadiya9529]

Very superb information about Guyana

[@kuntidookhan6781]

Great work Mark. Good to know that there r people like u in Guyana to give us such a wonderful history of Guyana and indentured labourers.

[@shavishtianjaliedookraj46]

I miss my village, Highbury it was truly a beauty and it still is.

[@deonramkelawan111]

Thanks you Mark for this very informative video. Beautifully done.

[@bishamsingh1490]

Thanks for this....that's my uncle Etin you are interviewing, he's talking about my great maternal grandfather..I am from Guava Bush Albion; my great grandfather's house is still there the Balai family living in it. Lots of stories about that house and my great grandfather.

[@grovebai0723]

OMG history of the untold truth about our ancestors thank you for these wonderful videos you do my friend keep it up may God continue to bless you 🙏 ❤ much love and appreciation from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦.

[@sheilapersaud1162]

Thanks Neil for sharing this beautiful memories my great grandmother and grandfather they are from Utterpradesh and they came on the ship Brenda

[@shampersaud2763]

WOW, THANK YOU VERY MUCH NEIL MARKS AND THE GUYANA ARCHIVES FOR THIS VERY INTERESTING ,AND INFORMATIVE INFORMATION. TRULY ENJOYED,, WE NEED TO GET MORE. I studied West Indian History and there was a book called History of the West Indian people and Guyana was included too but I will be honest to say I cannot remember everything in the book. The Slave Trade was mentioned. We all should learn our history. Thanks to the gentleman who is talking about our indentured ancestors... I remember reading about the DUTCH planantations and some artefacts they left behind like what the gentleman is talking about, namely the DUTCH Bottles and broken dishes,. Thank you Neil Marks for this important piece of information...

[@cartears]

Beautiful documentary. Thanks Neil .. you continue to raise the bar on your presentations. This was well thought out and executed. Kiddos to you and the team.

[@allankhan2477]

Great job well done. This give me a better understanding of the hardships my ancestors went through. Thanks please continue doing more documentaries.

[@sarjoo666]

Very nice video keep up the good work

[@ganeshpersaud5948]

Thank u sooo much for tharing this video

[@anjupeswani9769]

Very nice video and analysis about India happy to see you Mr Tribhuan

[@mohamedhaniff8417]

Nice work

[@j.l.1391]

Hi Neil, I'm a little confused, pardon me, was it your grandmother who was born in 1910? And your parents got married in 1965? Did your father take the name of the plantation owner?

[@praimpersaud2928]

I AM a son of indian immigrants ; our ansestors were brave and adventouras they were pioneers to the new world ; I MIGRATED TO AMERICA and experience a second migration ; mankind always seeks for i better life ;

[@roja7426]

I wish i knew about my ancestry. However, nothing is known about my great great grandparents on my maternal side. Then on my paternal side, my father didn’t grow up with his biological father so nothing is known about him. Then my grandmother on the paternal side, her birth wasn’t registered so it’s difficult to track the ancestry.

[@kippysadhoo9428]

neil is there a fee and contact number i can, also the address of the archives in gt.am not in guyana but would love to find out more if i do come and with ur help.

[@davidsingh6715]

Is the lord mahadeo stone.

[@ankushyadav6814]

As an Indian i don't know how i reached to your video but yes it's very good documentary except the knowledge of that girl about caste and sati in hinduism is completely influenced by western, leftist and anti-hindu sources. I think to talk about that a should either read the original text like Gita, Ramayana or vedas, or get knowledge from those authors who follows hinduism. At last welcome to India.

[@amazonwarrior7126]

Thats nice to know our forefathers, but when Brazilians,or some time Americians come to Guyana they pretend, Guyana is strange, like if they did not come from europe or Africa, themselves and they were all natives for ever in America OR Brazil, makes me laugh.