BROKEN LEG-HE IGNORED MOM’S ADVICE

(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper September 27, 1976)

A young man who went against his mother’s advice and purchased a motor cycle was wheeled into the Georgetown Hospital’s Casualty Department on Saturday night screaming with pain from a broken leg.He was driving the motor cycle to show it off to his mother when he collided with a pedestrian on High Street.
“Oh my God, why didn’t I listen to my mother,” 24-year-old Ragonauth Jagerpat of Grove East Coast Demerara shouted as his leg was examined.
The doctor diagnosed a compound fracture and he was admitted.

DINNER FOR TWO
(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper September 14, 1976)

How do you like our newspaper, the Citizen evening newspaper? Tell us and win a dinner for two at the Pegasus. The Citizen has now appeared for fourteen days and although we have had encouraging remarks we are not so smug as to believe that we are producing the kind of newspaper that all citizens want.
Criticise us; praise us. We will publish letters and the writer who in our view makes the most constructive suggestions will be invited- along with his wife or friend – for a dinner for two at the Pegasus.
Send in your letters to the Citizen Lama Avenue Bel Air Park.

THE POLICEWOMAN AND THE GHOST
(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper September 22, 1976)

A 25-year-old policewoman who was admitted to the Georgetown Hospital a few days ago after claiming that she had seen a ghost, has been discharged.
According to reports Policewoman Yvonne Hamilton was attending the switchboard one night last week when she saw the image of a “Red Man” suddenly appeared before her.
She tried to speak to the person but he did not respond and then she tried to hold him but did not feel anything.
Yvonne of Cove and John Police Station East Coast Demerara screamed before collapsing.
She was rendered first aid by her colleagues who later conveyed her to the Georgetown Hospital where she was admitted in a semi-conscious condition.
According to reports reaching Georgetown, the switchboard at Cove and John is situated in the same spot where a mortuary was located some years ago.
The “Red Man” is said to have plagued other persons before.
It is certain Yvonne would prefer not operate the switchboard again for fear that her unenviable experience would be repeated.

LET IT BE UNIQUE
(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper September 21, 1976)
Dear Editor, The Citizen is Okay. When I first got the newspaper and read the name, I said to myself. The Citizen, the Citizen: not bad at all.

MOTHER DIES ON HEARING OF SON’S DEATH
(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper September 13, 1976)

Tragedy struck twice within 24 hours at the Rajcoomar home in Campbelville when 52-year-old Vashti Rajcoomar died within three hours after being told of the death of her 30-year-old son Terry.
Mrs. Rajcoomar it was said had been long suffering from a heart ailment.
According to reports, her son Terry had been suffering from high temperatures during the past few weeks and last Thursday he was admitted to the Georgetown Hospital.
When the mother heard that his condition was serious, she took ill and was admitted to a private hospital.
Terry died on Saturday.
And when on Sunday, on her sick bed, his mother heard of his passing, the shock was too much for her ailing heart.
She died less than three hours after being told the news.
Mrs. Rajcoomar is mourned by six children and twelve grandchildren

NURSES ASSOCIATION HONOURS FIRST MALE NURSE
(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper September 2, 1976)

The Guyana Nurses’ Association has honoured the first male nurse in its 48th year of existence.
The honour was placed on Cde. Oscar Mentis by President of the Association Sister Rodha Clarke at the 48th anniversary meeting earlier this week for his contribution to the nursing profession..
Comrade Mentis of Bagotstown who received his secondary education at the Progressive and Preparatory Institute was on the teaching Staff of the Mon Repos Government School East Coast Demerara before joining the staff of the Georgetown Hospital nine years ago at the Nurses’ Probationers Training School.
Some years later he gained his Registered Nurse Certificate from the Guyana Nursing Council and was later placed in charge of various wards at the Hospital.
At present he is acting as a Ward Brother a similar position to that of a Ward Sister.
Sister Gwendoline Tross General Secretary of the Association said that the organisation and nurses were pleased with the contribution that Brother Mentis has made to the nursing profession.
She said that as far as she was aware, he was the first male nurse to be honoured by the Association.

FISH BONE KILLS MAN
(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper September 6, 1976)

A man who carried a fish bone in his throat for eight days died at the Georgetown Hospital yesterday in spite of efforts to save his life.
Neville Joseph, 21, of Kurupung Mazaruni District was air dashed to the City on Saturday August 28 and admitted to the hospital.
According to reports reaching Georgetown, Joseph was eating a meal of fish when a bone accidentally slipped down and stuck in his throat.
Efforts by Medical personnel in the District to remove the bone failed and he was rushed to the city, but died in spite of efforts by leading doctors to save his life.

JUDITH GETS DINNER DATE
(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper September 22, 1976)

Twenty-year-old Judith Eversley an old girl of Cambridge High School and an aspiring poet, has won the Citizen’s Dinner for Two competition.
Her letter on how she sees the new evening paper was the one which found the most approval among the editors.
“I am delighted to have won the competition and I have not yet decided whether I will take my boyfriend or a girlfriend to dine with me,” Judith said this morning.”
Judith lives in Dadanawa Street, Campbelville and she has just completed a one year stenographer’s course at the Government Technical Institute (GTI).
She has already written a set of poems and she hopes to publish an anthology in the near future.
She thinks that the Citizen is a good newspaper with a fantastic women’s section.
Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at cliffantony@gmail.com or cell phone # 657 2043.