BOY KILLED BY LADDER

(Daily Chronicle January 3, 1973)

A six-year-old boy died on his way to hospital while his seven –year-old cousin was admitted to the Georgetown Hospital in a critical condition shortly after a ladder fell on them.Reports state that Rohan Jagdeo and Cecil Mangru 7 of Better Hope were playing near a ladder which was left leaning against a house in the district when it fell on them.
Cecil is nursing multiple injuries and his condition was described as still serious by a hospital spokesman.

CHAMBER OPENS DOORS TO SMALL MAN
(Guyana Graphic January 7, 1973)

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce at a special general meeting on Thursday amended its constitution to provide for a new category of Associate Member paving the way for admission to the Chamber of corner drugstores, business agencies and small industrial establishments, all paying special subscription rates.
But while Associate members will be afforded the same rights and privileges as other members with respect to protection, representation and the liberty to raise issues affecting the interest of commerce and industry they will not be allowed to vote or serve on the Council, a release from the Chamber said yesterday.
This new move of extending membership to the smaller man in the business community is another effort by the Chamber to genuinely serve both the Guyanese nation and the business community in a more  effective way and is within the Object of the Chamber’s Ordinance of Incorporation, the release said.
The Chamber will ensure that the new category of members will maintain the continued high moral and ethical standards displayed by other members and in this regard will take rigid disciplinary action to ensure compliance with respect to rules and regular business ethics.

GO-CARTS
(Daily Chronicle January 7, 1973)

The new craze: Go-carts . You push it from behind and I steer it with my feet and if I tilt over I don’t have far to go to reach the ground. Top speed is also well within the safety limits. Those are the good points about the home-made Go Carts boys are operating nowadays. They say they make it themselves.

NEW MINING ASSOCIATION FORMED;
(Daily Chronicle January 5th 1973)

Some three thousand tributers and miners in the mining areas throughout Guyana will be represented by a new Association formed recently.
The Guyana Association of Traders and Tributers has as Chairman of the Steering Committee Mr. C.V.Lampkin .
Other members include Mr. R. Lampkin , Mr. D. George, Mr. S.A.Wade, R. Savory and Mr. K. Bancroft, M.P.
The Association aims among other things to to arrange a program of development for mining communities.
Within this plan the mining areas will benefit from improved housing facilities, water supply, recreational facilities, schools and other social amenities.
The Association plans to ask the Government for representation on Public Corporation Boards and further to be represented on the Assistance to Miners Scheme which was formed by the Ministry of Mines and Forests earlier this year.
A draft constitution has been drawn up and is to be ratified by   weekend.

GSA EXPANDING IN 1973
(Daily Chronicle January 9th 1973)

The construction of a $90,000 Plant Science building at the Guyana School of Agriculture at Mon Repos East Coast Demerara will be among a number of developmental works to be undertaken this year.
Other projects to be undertaken will include the establishment of a Slaughter House with modern equipment, the extension to the Administrative building and the setting up of a modern milk room.
The construction of a 40 by 60-foot poultry pen, the extension to the diary shed and the acquisition of new laboratory equipment will also be part of the school’s developmental program for 1973.
The crop farm of the school will also acquire a $9,000 precision planter for the expansion of the farm.
A new tool shed will also be constructed on a self-help basis by students of the school.
The cafeteria of the school will also come in for expansion and renovation with the introduction of up to date equipment to the value of $10,000.

TIGER MENACE
(Daily Chronicle January 9th 1973)

Tigers are reported to be creating havoc at Black Bush Polder and cattle farmers are calling on the Police to shoot the ferocious beasts which are killing their cattle.
One farmer, who lost four calves to the big cats about a week ago, said other cattle owners in the area were suffering similar losses.

AN EVENING WITH SLADE HOPKINSON
(Guiana Graphic January 3, 1973)

Chase Manhattan Bank is sponsoring today a one-man stage production by Slade Hopkinson one of Guyana’s artists of the theatre.
“An evening with Slade Hopkinson “will be seen at the Theatre Guild and later this week at some of the chief educational institutions in Georgetown.
The evening will offer a varied theatrical experience.
The presentation will consist of three parts: characterizations of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes, readings from Slade Hopkinson’s poetry, and dramatisations from West Indian fictions.
Slade Hopkinson was born in New Amsterdam Guyana.
He has lived and worked in Guyana, all over the West Indies and the United States.
He had his first experience as an actor when he was still a schoolboy at Harrison College, Barbados.
He played Brutus in a production of “Julius Caesar” and received reviews that expressed astonishment that so mature a performance could have been given by a seventeen-year-old boy.
Since then he has acted with the University Players and the West Indian players in Jamaica, Yale University Drama School and the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in the United States , the Theatre Guild in Guyana and the Caribbean Theatre Guild in Trinidad.
During his years in Jamaica he helped to make a considerable critical reputation for both the University Players and the West Indian Players performing the lead and directing a production of “King Lear” and playing the lead in his own poetic drama: ”The onliest fisherman.”

(Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at (cliffantony@gmail.com or cell phone # 694 0913)