Jul 17, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown bears the name of King George III, the British monarch during whose reign the settlement acquired increasing importance as the administrative and commercial center of what would become British Guiana. Whatever history’s judgment of empire, the name “Georgetown” reminds us of our colonial heritage.

Unfortunately, after the British left, those who succeeded them had no clue as to how to administer a city. They had instead a more perverted idea of the concept civic order.