Operation Makonaima
(Guyana Graphic: October 2, 1972)
Exotic Caribbean entertainment. Guyana’s first major movie with a big local star cast. If you have not seen this fast-moving action hit, we urge you to do so today at 5 and 8:45pm. Tomorrow and daily at 1:00, 5:00 and 8:45pm, at the Metropole. Also showing at the Radio City Cinema, Skeldon. Children under sixteen years of age must be accompanied by an adult.

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Atherly takes the count:
(Guiana Graphic: October 1, 1972)
GUYANA’S Amateur Featherweight Boxing Champion, Courtney Atherly was counted out of the ranks of bachelors yesterday afternoon when he married Ingrid Allison Daly at the St. Pius Roman Catholic Church, La Penitence.
Atherly, a policeman, had just returned from Munich, West Germany, where he represented Guyana at the recent Olympic Games.
He lost his bout there too… on points.

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Pipe from the past
(Guyana Graphic: October 1, 1972)
PIPE-smoking must have been comparatively new in 17th Century England. It had been
introduced there just a few decades before by Sir Walter Raleigh, subsequent to his adventures in the New World.
Pipes from that period, however, must have been something to look at if the relic dug up from the foreshore off Better Hope, East Coast Demerara is any indication of the pipe- making art of that era.
Lennox Solomon, an employee of Balfour Beatty Construction Company, now working on sea defences at Better Hope, brought his find to this newspaper during last week: The bowl of a porcelain pipe with just about one-and-a-half-inches of the stem perfectly preserved and decorated with an exquisite engraving of the Coat of Arms of William III of England (1650-1702).
He came upon the centuries-old artifact from a bucket of earth removed from some 15 feet below sea level at the site.
This was not the first time that Mr. Solomon had come upon the remnants left behind by Guyana’s early colonizers.
And the profusion with which they are unearthed supports the theory that the Atlantic has, over the centuries, encroached upon the coastal belt, forcing the inhabitants to move further inland.
Solomon spoke of impressions of odd-shaped coffins and of deep circular wells he has stumbled upon every now and then as the excavation buckets remove top soil to be thrown up further back as a new rampart against the sea.
“I have come across bottles of peculiar oval shape, and with a light green colour, and brass candelabras which must have held enormous candles in their wide sockets,” he said.
The problem is: What is to be done with these relics?
It is pretty obvious that the Balfour Beatty workers are not the first to come across relics of centuries-old generations.
Many others must have garnered interesting items, either for personal collections, or for “making a quick buck”.
Solomon said: “I was offered $100 for this pipe by an antique dealer, but I will hold on to it for a while longer.”
Solomon is certainly the first person in recent times to come up and admit to owning a formidable collection of relics picked up on the Guyana foreshore.
Back in 1970, with the first flush of nationalism generated by the new Cooperative Republic, officials of the National History and Arts Council had mooted the legislation of measures aimed at preserving the memorabilia which constitute Guyana’s past, with particular attention being paid to relics dug up locally, but finding their way to museums overseas.
Now, this idea is apparently all but forgotten as more and more bits and pieces used by those lured to this part of the world by tales of El Dorado and its streets paved with gold find their way to personal collections and museums outside of Guyana.
(Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at cliffantony@gmail.com or cell phone # 657 2043)