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Cache of activities planned for New Amsterdam’s 133rd anniversary

Oct 14, 2024 Sports

(Cache of activities planned for New Amsterdam’s 133rd anniversary to celebrated its existence as the oldest town in Guyana).

Kaieteur Sports –  The New Amsterdam Mayor and Town Council (NAMTC) is this year celebrating its 133 years in existence and a hoard of activities including sports have been planned to observe the occasion.

New Amsterdam, which got township status September 1, 1891, is the oldest town in Guyana. Its first Mayor was Britain Neil Ross Mc Kinnon, a Barrister of Law. The present Mayor is Wainwright McIntosh, an Education Officer.

This year’s activity was launched on the 22nd of August. The town week is expected to run from October 17th to November 3rd. The theme this year is ‘Embrace History and Unity”.

To start things off a church service was held at the Bethel Prayer and Praise Ministries. At the end of the service members of the church gifted the staff of the NAMTC an anniversary cake.

Several sporting activities are slated to highlight the Town’s 133rd Anniversary celebrations.

Including street football, basketball, bird whistling competition, cricket, drama festival, Mayor’s Cycling road race, steel band competition, bingo, Spelling Bee, domino Competition, debate, impromptu speech, singing competition, mathematics Olympiad, dancing competition, walk race and concerts.

A variety of other activities are also on the agenda including River tours, business exhibition and job fair, all back and all blue affairs, market day, cooler fete and breakfast morning.

The celebrations are expected to culminate with a fair and sound clash on Friday, November 1, at the Bermine Ground. The usual street fair and Lime is slated for Saturday, November 2, along Main Street while a family fun day is slated for Sunday, November 3, at the Esplanade Park.

New Amsterdam, which is located about five miles on the Eastern Bank of the Berbice River, is situated at the confluence of the Berbice and Canje Rivers. It became a town exactly 100 years before it became a Municipality.

About 1733, the name New Amsterdam was given to a little village that sprang up around Fort Nassau about 56 miles up the Berbice River.

In 1785 it was decided to abandon Fort Nassau and move to the neighbourhood of Fort St. Andries lower down the river at the confluence of the Berbice River and its tributary the Canje River, the site of present-day New Amsterdam. It was built by the Dutch in 1740 before being taken over by the British in 1803.

New Amsterdam covers about 13.7 square kilometers and has an estimated population of approximately 50,000 persons.

New Amsterdam was established as the seat of Government for Berbice Between 1785 to 1790.

In 1812 a special Department of Works, the Winkel Department, was set up to deal with all repair works required by the residents. The workmen were originally slaves who were given their freedom in 1831. The Town Hall of Tudor’s architecture was built with a tower, of approximately 75 feet. This tower was dismantled in 2012.

(Cache of activities planned for New Amsterdam’s 133rd anniversary)

 

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