If the Georgetown City Council has its way, Guy-ana’s Botanical Gardens will be renamed after Forbes Burnham-the man who led Guyana into political independence from Britain almost 50 years ago.
“I had public consultations and there was a proposal for the renaming of the Botanical Gardens, that whole square for that matter to be renamed the Forbes Burnham Square,” Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green told Stabroek News yesterday.
A public consultation was held on Tuesday at the National Library which saw persons from the diaspora,