ROSIGNOL SWIM TO FIRST PLACE
(Guyana Chronicle October 27, 1977)
In the first ever Inter-School Swimming competition on the West Coast of Berbice Rosignol Government Primary emerged winner with 45 points.Second place went to Blairmont Government Primary with 32 points and third Ithaca Government Primary with 22 points.

Champion boy was Alfred Reddock of Rosignol Primary with three firsts for fifteen points .
Champion girl Anna Lena Blair of the same school got one first and two seconds with eleven points.
The competition was held at the Blairmont swimming pool and five schools participated.

MUSEUM EXPEDITION COLLECTS RARE BIRDS
(Guyana Chronicle October 27, 1977)
The Museum Exhibition team returned to Georgetown yesterday with a collection of over fifty specimens of birds, mammals, fishes and insects from the Rewa River area in the Rupununi.

The Rewa Museum expedition left Georgetown a week ago for the Rupununi in search of a new collection of swamp and forest birds as well as other mammals and species of fish.
The team which was headed by Naturalist N.O. Poonai included Taxidermists Balram Singh and Reynold Benfield.
According to expedition leader Poonai some of the birds brought back such as the capped heron, the spurwinged or upland plover and the orange breasted falcon are so rare that they have not been collected for a long time and it was doubtful whether they even existed in the country.
The collection also included a representative species of hawks, moths, frogs and fishes from the lakes and rivers.
Poonai said that ecological studies and observations were made of the Essequibo, Rupununi amd Rewa Rivers –especially in the lakes along the rivers and in the forest of the river banks.

TWO CHILDREN WIN MEDALS
(Guyana Chronicle October 29, 1977)
Two school children from Guyana, Mukesh Persaud (9) of Albion Government school Berbice and Roxanne Casey (12) of Calcutta Government school East Coast Demerara have won Silver Medals for painting in the Shankar’s International Children’s Competition held in New Delhi India in 1976.

FILM OM GUYANESE PLAY A BIG HIT
(Guyana Chronicle November 8, 1977)
A film based on a play by Guyanese Jamal Ali is drawing big audiences at London cinemas, the British High Commission has said.
The film “Black Joy” brings together a number of Caribbean actors including the Jamaican born star Trevor Thomas and Guyanese Norman Beaton who plays a leading role.
“Black Joy” based on Ali’s “Dark Days and Dark nights” takes a fabled look at London’s suburb of Brixton and deals with the experiences of Benjamin when he arrives at the predominantly black community.
Movie critics have heaped praise on the film and the actors.
Alexander Walker critic of the London “Evening Standard” said that the cast brings a sense of seething humanity more common place in Kingston or Montego Bay to rainy grey London.
And they spill out some of the saltiest , sexiest, funniest dialogue I’ve ever heard,” he added.

EXPLODING BOTTLE LAMP SETS MAN ON FIRE
(Guyana Chronicle November 13, 1977)
A watchman jumped into the Demerara River yesterday morning after he was turned into a human torch.
Khemraj Sookdeo 29, of Patentia Housing Scheme West Bank Demerara was later admitted to the Georgetown Hospital in a serious condition.
According to reports Sookdeo who was guarding a business place was using a kerosene bottle lamp when it exploded setting his clothes alight.
He jumped into the river in an attempt to put out the flames.

DENIS WILLIAMS DISCOVERS ROCK CARVING TOOLS IN SOUTH RUPUNUNI
(Guyana Chronicle November 20, 1977)
A group of ancient rock carvings found in South Rupununi savannahs are currently being studied by Mr. Denis Williams Director of Art in the Department of Culture.

Mr. Williams and three other colleagues spent a week at Aishalton in the South Rupununi savannahs where exits the oldest rocks on the continent of South America.
Photographs and transfers taken of the rock carvings are being studied to determine the approximate time of their inscription.
It seems that the rocks were carved by pre-pottery using peoples who traversed the Brazilian-Venezuelan and Guyanese savannahs as hunters at a dare still to be established.
Members of the expedition were Williams, Dr. Alain Fournier, a sociologist attached to UMDA, Dr Philipe Mitrani, a Social Anthropologist attached to UNESCO and Dr Lesley Potter, Head of the Department of Geography, University of Guyana.
The team was associated with the recent conference on Human Ecology and Environmental Management sponsored by the National Science and Research Council.

4 GIRLS AMONG EIGHT GUYANA SCHOLARS
(Guyana Chronicle November 24, 1977)
Four girls are among eight winners of Guyana scholarships awarded for this year.

They are Bibi Zorina Khan who will study Hotel Administration, Christine Y Williams, Medicine, Sharon A V Embarack Spanish and Russian double major and Monica Helena Bowen, French and Russian.
The boys awarded Guyana scholarships are Rajendra Harry Dyal who will study Computer Science , Nunesh C S Singh, Industrial Engineering , Paul Dexter Valz, Actuarial Science , Leshpratap Lall, Chemical Engineering and Sheik Riyad A Insanally Spanish and French double major.

STAMPS TRACE HISTORY OF GUYANA FIRE SERVICE
(Guyana Chronicle November 25, 1977)
Four stamps commemorating Fire Prevention Week 1977 which was observed earlier this month are now on sale at post offices and postal agencies throughout the country.
The stamps are in denominations of eight cents, 15 cents, 35 cents and 40 cents.
On the eight cent stamp is seen the fire appliance of the oldest type used on sugar estates while the fifteen cent stamp depicts the coal and the steamer type of appliance which was horse drawn to the scene of a fire.
On the 35 cent stamp is depicted a fire appliance which was introduced into the country in October 1923.
It was a Hatfield Merryweather motor vehicle fitted with an internal combustion engine.
The fire appliance on the forty cents stamp conforms with all the requirements of a modern fire fighting vehicle for a wooden city like Georgetown.
It was introduced in Guyana in December 1975.
All these appliances mark different stages of Fire Service development in Guyana.

TODAY’S BEST BUY
(Guyana Chronicle November 28, 1977)
Raleigh All Steel Gents 23” cycle frames only $84; Refit your old cycle with a new frame for only $99. Duty Free racing cycle.

Parts & Accessories at controlled prices.
D M Fernandes Ltd. 27 Main Street Georgetown.
Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at cliffantony@gmail.com or cell phone # 657 2043.