There is a sense in which New Amsterdam’s recently commissioned four-storey Bristol Shopping Mall and Restaurant (the proprietor sometimes favours the more long-winded title Bristol-Apollo Lounge, Canje Pheasant Restaurant and Mini Mall) defies the widely-held notion that social and political instability in Guyana serves as a disincentive to attracting Guyanese in the diaspora to invest here.
Charles Bristol-Henry sunk his life’s savings into building New Amsterdam’s first shopping mall