Marriage breaks up on wedding night
Thomas Hooper married the girl of his dreams last Saturday at 2:30 p.m..
At five minutes after midnight the same day, he was back at his home, virtually a bachelor because he and his wife had decided to call it quits.
Hooper, 23, a welder of Gibraltar, Corentyne Berbice had courted his wife, a devoted member of the Church of the Nazarene at Fyrish, Corentyne.
They were married at the same Church on June 28 last.
The reception took place at the Columbus Scots School at No 1 Village where there was music and dancing.
There was a quarrel between the bride and the bridegroom and when the reception was over guests looked on in amazement as the couple left in different directions…he with his relatives and she with her parents.
Maybe love will eventually overcome the differences but, meanwhile, both parties maintained that they had quit for good.
Giving his version of the story, Hooper said: “We courted for twelve months although it was sometimes difficult for her. I bought her wedding dress and ring and spent a large sum of money making preparations for our honeymoon.”
“Although there was dancing at the reception, we didn’t  dance because it was against our religion. Everything went on all right until midnight when I decided that it was time to leave on our honeymoon.”
“Outside the reception hall my wife told me that she didn’t want me anymore and was going home with her parents. I did not try  to prevent her.”
The wife told a different story.
She said that it was against her religion to dance but her husband’s relatives had gone ahead and arranged for music and dancing.
She became shocked when her husband invited her to dance . When she refused he became violent and shook her.
She went on: “Later that night my brother who is a Policeman came and kissed me goodbye. This angered my husband and he shook me again. We were outside the reception hall getting ready to leave for our honeymoon when I finally made up my mind that the end had come.”
“I took that position when he refused to permit me to collect my suitcase or even say goodbye to my parents. I came to the conclusion that if this was the type of life in store for me, the faster it ended the better it would be for us. My decision is final.” (Guyana Graphic July 6, 1969)
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HOW 3 CO-OP FARMERS KILLED A JAGUAR
(Guyana  Graphic July 4, 1969)
Three farmers ambushed and killed a fierce jaguar with cutlasses in the jungles of the Mahaicony river after the animal had killed one of their three hunting dogs.
But up to yesterday the members of the Mahaicony Farmers Pioneer Cooperative Society who have since been granted permission to use a shot gun  were scouring the jungles 40 miles up the creek for the male mate of the killed beast.
Following a spate of destruction of  cattle by the beasts, the three members of the society set off from their Butenabu Camp at around  five o’clock one day a week ago on the trail of the jaguar whose scent had been picked up by their three hunting dogs.
Thirty minutes later the dogs were heard barking and yelping at the huge animal at bay against a mora tree trunk but poised and ready to go into action.
The three men stealthily sneaked up to the rear of the jaguar just after it had boxed and killed one of the dogs.
Armed only with cutlasses, the three cooperators went into action – two driving home their cutlasses into the sides and rumps of the animal while the other man chopped its brains out.
Later, they skinned the carcass and, according to one of them, the leader had difficulty restraining his colleagues setting out in pursuit of the male mate which they heard growling in the distance.
The society has since been granted permission to obtain a 16-bore shotgun  and other members of the society have joined the three man team to hunt the other jaguar.
(Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at cliffantony@gmail.com or cell phone # 657 2043.)