Tales from way back when…
Island In The Sun
DIRECTED by Robert Rossen, Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, Written by Alfred Hayes and Alec Waugh. Starring James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins and Harry Belafonte. Music by Malcolm Arnold. Cinematography: Freddie Young. Editing by Reginald Beck. Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. Release date(s) June 12, 1957. Running time: 119 mins Country: United States.  Language: English.

Biggest ever premiere in the history of the screen in B.G. Twentieth Century Fox presents at the Globe Cinema, Island In The Sun, a fascinating panorama of west Indian life.

Exclusive to the Globe; see it now or wait for a year.
(Guiana Graphic: October 31, 1957)

Venezuelan Vice-Consul now stationed at Morawhanna
-Neighbourly  relations strengthened
A VENEZUELAN vice-consul is now stationed at Morawhanna in the North West District  to take care of the needs of the people there.

The duties assigned to Señor Antonio Cabral  are said to be similar to those of his country’s consul in Georgetown.

This appointment by the Venezuelan government has been made in the interest of the people in relation to the issuing of passports and other matters.

Before now, they had to travel to the City to have those done.

Señor Cabral is accompanied by his wife and their three children.
(Guiana Graphic: October 5, 1957)

He knew Demba’s pioneer
MR. BERTIE DaCosta is the oldest employee in Demba’s machine shop at Mackenzie.

He knew Mr. George B. Mackenzie, the pioneer from North America who discovered and acquired some of the bauxite areas on the Demerara River.

Bertie worked with Sproston’s Limited at Wismar from 1913 to 1926, and since then has had unbroken service with Demba.

Interviewed recently, Bertie said: “I have known Mackenzie all through the years, and have seen it transformed from a spot in the jungle to one of the bright spots and a major attraction in British Guiana.”
(Guiana Graphic:  October 7, 1957)

Man, 59, hit by train
SINA Bayen, a 59-year-old man, was struck down by the 11:30am Rosignol-Georgetown passenger train yesterday about 200 yards from the Kitty Railway Station, E.C.D.

He was taken in an unconscious condition to the Georgetown Hospital by Const. 4715 Sam Rodney of the Kitty Police Station suffering from two inflicted wounds on his scalp, and a suspected fracture of his ribs.

Up to late last night, his condition was still considered serious.
(Guiana Graphic: October 8, 1957)

Art class tonight
THE Working People’s Art Class will meet tonight at Queens College.

Interested persons are asked to take along a drawing book and pencil.

Sculpture and pottery classes are to commence at a date to be announced later.

Mr. E.R. Burrowes, M.B.E; Mr. Donald Locke; and Mr. Stanley Greaves are instructors.

Class commences at 7:30 sharp.

The class meets again on Saturday for the purpose of painting.
(Guiana Graphic: October 10, 1957)

Train accident victim dies
SINA Bayen, 59, who was struck down by the 11:30am Rosignol-Georgetown train on Monday died at the Georgetown Hospital around 8 o’clock last night.

Bayen, whose address is still unknown, was picked up in an unconscious condition about 200 yards from the Kitty Railway Station by P.C 4715 Sam Rodney and rushed to the Georgetown Hospital.

The Police were not in a position to say if he has any relatives, or how the accident occurred.

Investigations are, however, still being made.
(Guiana Graphic: October 10, 1957)

Two scrap-iron dealers jailed
Two scrap-iron dealers of the City, Joseph Gibson, 42, and Sydney Hinds, 39, were each sentenced to two years imprisonment at the Demerara Assizes yesterday for stealing scrap-iron.

The Crown said they stole the iron from one firm and sold it to another firm.

They were sentenced by Mr. Justice Bollers after a three-day trial.
(Guiana Graphic: October 11, 1957)

Criminal attacks on women must stop
-Judge suggests LegCo should introduce ‘Cat’
WOULD the administering of ‘The Cat’ stop men from criminally assaulting women and girls in B.G.?

Mr. Justice Date said yesterday that the time is not far off when the Legislature would have to consider it.

His Lordship felt that something must be done to bring home the seriousness of the offence to men so inclined.

The Judge was about to deal with the third man at the present session to be convicted by a Jury of criminally assaulting a 16-year-old girl aback Le Repentir Cemetery five months ago.

The man was Eustace Thornhill, 38 years old Public Works road labourer, popularly called ‘Shark Eyes’.

In Thornhill’s case, Justice Date said that it was not a question of one man committing the assault.

He had no doubt that the Jury must have found that there was a common conspiracy by three men who had assaulted the girl one after the other.

Counsel for the accused, Mr. N.J. Bissember, suggested that it was a case of sudden temptation.

He said that Thornhill, who had eighteen previous convictions for minor offences, had within recent years been actively engaged in certain church work of a social nature.

“Well,” said His Lordship, “that means he must be stopped from doing this kind of thing.”

Thornhill was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

Mr. E.A. Ramao prosecuted.
(Guiana Graphic: October 18, 1957)

Rum overboard
THE vessel, ‘Starline’, capsized in the Demerara River yesterday with a number of casks of rum.

The incident occurred in the vicinity of Thom and Cameron Wharf.
(Guiana Graphic: October 19, 1957)

Georgetown to Lethem in three weeks
-The Oxford and Cambridge expedition makes the first successful overland trip
THE OXFORD and Cambridge Expedition has made it.

For the first time, motor vehicles have travelled from Georgetown to Lethem on the Brazilian border.

On Tuesday October 22,  Nigel Newberry, leader of the Expedition, radio-phoned that the three Land Rovers had arrived safely at Lethem.

The journey, a distance of 600 miles, took over three weeks.

Full details of the trip have not arrived, but some idea of the difficulties which men, machines and equipment had to overcome is indicated by the fact that at one point, it took over eight hours to cover 400 yards.

Congratulations to the expedition, and to these products that saw them through: Land Rover; Shell Gasoline and Lubricants, and Dunlop Tyres.
(Guiana Graphic: October 28, 1957)

Rainstorm renders 50 homeless
FOLKS WERE awakened during the early hours of yesterday morning when one of the longest and sharpest periods of fork and sheet lightning struck the City.

As the highly electrified lightning swept across the beds of homes, women and children terrified by the unusual sight had difficulty sleeping.

There were no reports of damage in Georgetown, but in West Coast Berbice, 14 buildings, including St. Michael’s Anglican School at Hopetown, were thrown off their blocks and badly damaged.

No one was injured, but 10 families, numbering over fifty persons, were rendered homeless.

Livestock perished, and a few other buildings were slightly damaged.

Zinc sheets were blown off the ro
of of the Guard Room at Fort Wellington Police Station.
(Guiana Graphic: October 31, 1957)
(Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at cliffantony@gmail.com or by telephone: 657-2043)