THIRSTY COW ATTACKS MAN

(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper October 4, 1976)

A thirsty cow yesterday attacked a Lawyer’s clerk who was fetching a bucket of water in his yard at Stanleytown New Amsterdam, Berbice.Fortunately the young man escaped unhurt.
Relating the incident to the Citizen, Maurice Dhanpat, 28, said that around 6 a.m he wen t to fill a bucket of water from his stand-pipe.
He was taking the water home when a black and white cow with huge horns rushed at him.
Frightened, the young man dropped the bucket of water and ran for his life.
The animal put his head in the bucket and drank out all the water but was apparently still not satisfied.
He kept licking the outside and inside of the container.
After a while the animal left, his thirst only partially quenched.
The dry season is in full swing and many ponds trenches and drains have dried up.
Cows donkeys sheep and other animals are now roaming the residential areas in search of water.
The President of the Berbice Branch of the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Albert Benfield, also known as Captain, is appealing to citizens to be kind to animals.

SEX CHANGE OPERATION AT GT HOSPITAL

(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper October 8, 1976)
A team of two doctors and two nurses created medical history in Georgetown yesterday when they performed a sex change operation removing the male sexual organs of a teenager and making a vaginal passage.
And this morning his room sealed off from the rest of the institution and with no visitors allowed, the patient was reported to be doing fine.
The teenager had planned to have the operation done overseas but changed his mind when doctors at the Georgetown Hospital decided that they could perform the necessary surgery.
The doctors became interested in the case when the young man was noticed washing wares and linen at the hospital.
He spoke in a female voice and discussions with him revealed an unhappiness and discontent with his being a male.
He said that he had difficulty with continuing to live as a man.
For a while before the operation the teenager had been attending a clinic for hormone treatment and his breasts had grown considerably before the doctors agreed that he was ready for surgery.
There was a sex change operation here five years before but that had involved removing the male organs of a hermaphrodite-that is a person with both male and female sexual organs.

STAMPS FOR DIWALI

(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper October 21, 1976)
A special issue of postage and revenue stamps to commemorate the Deepavali  Festival 1976 will be offered for sale to the public by the Post Office Department from today.
The stamps put up in denominations of 8 cents, 15 cents, 35 cents and 40 cents, will be on sale until December 31, 1976.
As is customary, a First Day issue will be provided at the Philatelic Bureau of the General Post Office as we’ll as the post offices at New Amsterdam, Kitty, Bourda, Mackenzie, Suddie and Bartica today.
Stamps bulletins are available free of cost from the Philatelic Bureau for mailing to friends and collectors overseas.

CORENTYNE “BUSHIE” MAN ELECTS TO GO TO JAIL

(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper October 1, 1976)
One of two men fined for being in possession of bush rum elected to go to jail when Magistrate Arthur Roberts ordered them to pay $750.
Naitram of No. 60 Village asked the Magistrate to sign his warrant after admitting to other offences for which he had been convicted..
Naitram and Kissoon Bisram pleaded guilty to being in possession of bush rum aback of No 60 village on August 25 last.
Bisram was given an alternative of six months imprisonment  and he asked for time to pay the fine.
Naitram given the same opportunity elected to spend his time in prison.

SO SORRY
(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper November 23, 1976)
Due to a shortage of hand-rolls, the Citizen has had to be restricted to eight pages today. Efforts are being made to get the newsprint out of the waterfront bond and we hope to return to our regular twelve-page tomorrow.

PRAYERS-THEN THREE HOURS OF RAIN
(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper December 1, 1976)
Religious leaders in Berbice held a special prayer service over the weekend imploring the almighty for rain. And after 8 hours their prayers were answered-there was a heavy downpour lasting three hours.
The service was held at the Gangaram Government school East Canje and was attended by 200 persons.
It was sponsored by executives of the Gangaram Hindu Temple who described it as a success.

A CHICKEN WITH FOUR LEGS

(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper November 11, 1976)
Have you ever seen a chicken with four legs? Well I have.
This chicken was on show since it was hatched on Monday night to an East Coast Demerara family.
Hundreds of employees of the Georgetown Hospital  and other institutions and firms along with villagers saw the chicken as it hopped along on four legs.
Evadney Wills of Bachelor’s Adventure East Coast Demerara said that her neighbour in whose pen the chicken was hatched, was afraid to handle it.
Wills said that many farmers rear chicken in the village but none had ever had that experience.
The abnormal chicken had its two feet attached normally but on each of the legs another foot was attached.
The chicken died yesterday less than twenty four hours after it was hatched and while it was being examined by employees of a city hospital.

THE CAT ATE HIS DINNER (BY DOC)
(The Citizen Your Evening Newspaper September 11, 1976)
A citizen whose wife is in hospital went home one evening after a hard day’s work and prepared some chicken curry  and rice for dinner.
After he had finished cooking, he left the meal on the kitchen table and went off to answer a call of nature.
The pungent odour of the curry attracted the next door neighbour’s cat and when the man returned he was enraged to see the cat eating his dinner.
He grabbed a broom and chased the animal all the way to the gate of the yard next door where he encountered its owner.
“Why the hell you don’t feed you cat… you know it eat out me food?” shouted the angry and hungry fellow.
“Why the hell you don’t cover you food? Is a dumb animal,” responded the woman.
After the brief exchange the man dealt the woman a lash with the broom and later found himself before the court.
He pleaded guilty to the charge but explained that he had not eaten since morning since his wife was in hospital and could not have cooked for him.
He was reprimanded and discharged.

(Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at cliffantony@gmail.com or cell phone # 657 2043)