STREAKER
(Guyana Chronicle April 3, 1974)
Police chalked up their first streaker arrest early yesterday morning when a 19-year- old youth was held as he ended a half mile run allegedly in the nude through a block of Bourda Streets.The arrest followed a week of five incidents in which men ran naked for varying distances along city streets and were successful in evading the police.
According to Police reports, the youth’s venture started as a leisurely trot and ended in a frantic sprint with a Policeman in hot pursuit.
Reports said that the man was playing skittles in a Regent Street club when he accepted a challenge to run naked around the block.
Stripping, he left the club at 1 a.m and began an easy trot.
Behind him trailed several men on bicycles who were elected as witnesses of the venture.
The streaker ran in safety until he reached the junction of Camp and Regent Streets.
There an off-duty Policeman spotted him and as he swung into Regent Street the policeman took up the chase.
The “witnesses” warned the naked man that he was being pursued and after a quick backward glance the man increased his speed into an all-out sprint.
He sped back to the club but he was grabbed just as he was about to enter.
Ignoring the entreaties of people in the club to “let the man go” the cop held on to him and ordered him to put on his clothes.
And while he was dressing the man with whom he had made the bet handed him two one dollar notes.
He is expected to appear in court today on a charge of indecent exposure.

PANDITS CONDEMN STREAKING
(Guyana Chronicle April 3, 1974)
Berbice pandits yesterday condemned streaking and called on “all patriotic Guyanese to step forward and assist the Police in bringing to justice the perpetrators of this immoral act.”
Speaking for the pandits, Mr. Thani Persaud Secretary of the Berbice Pandits Council described streaking as a “very irresponsible immoral and foolish act” and said that the authorities should go all out to stop this “lewd practice” before it became prevalent.
Declaring that no decent, law-abiding citizen in this country would support streaking, Mr. Persaud said he was happy that Police Commissioner Henry Fraser and his men were on the alert for streakers with the intention of prosecuting them.

15 CENTS FOR SOFT DRINK
(Guyana Chronicle April 8, 1974)
The price of a soft drink in vending machines has now been fixed at 15 cents under a trade order issued by the Ministry of Trade.
The price was 12 cents but an official source explained that the price was increased following the recent price increase for the item.
The machines cannot take 13 cents so the price has been fixed at 15 cents.

STERN PENALTIES FOR STREAKERS-MAGISTRATE WARNS
(Guyana Chronicle April 4, 1974)
Senior Magistrate William Alexander yesterday threatened the sternest penalty the law provides for persons found guilty of indecent exposure while indulging in the streaking fad.
Before a packed courtroom of curious spectators 19-year-old David Smith of South Road Bourda pleaded guilty and was fined $50 with an alternative of two months imprisonment on a charge of indecent exposure.
The first streaking charge was laid by Police Constable 7708 Fraser son of Police Commissioner Henry Fraser who the court was told chased the naked Smith some half a mile through a block of streets in Bourda shortly after midnight Monday and grabbed him as he was about to enter a night club on Robb Street.

THREE INFANTS ABANDONED IN B/CE
(Guyana Chronicle April 18, 1974)
Officials of the New Amsterdam Hospital and the police are trying to trace the mothers of three abandoned babies.
The babies are in good health at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Last Tuesday a female child was left on the Palmyra public road on the Corentyne.
A passer-by who noticed the infant took her to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Three weeks ago a male child was abandoned at the New Amsterdam Ferry Stelling .
A hire car driver who noticed the tot sitting on a bench for several hours felt sorry for him, fed him and then took him to the New Amsterdam hospital.
Recently a mother abandoned her baby at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
A mother of ten children told the Chronicle yesterday that mothers who abandon their children should be “put away” from society.
“It is a shame and disgrace for mothers to abandon their flesh and blood.”
She felt that stricter laws should be introduced to curb mothers from abandoning their children.

KAMOA
(Guyana Chronicle April 12, 1974)
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18-YEAR-OLD ADULT
(Guyana Chronicle April 16, 1974)
The Government has laid in Parliament the Order which makes effective the measure reducing the age of majority from 21 years to 18 years in several instances of law.
The Order which was signed by President Arthur Chung on January 7 puts persons aged from 18 years and over under the provisions of the Criminal Law ( Offences) Criminal Law (Procedures) Guyana Citizenship Friendly Societies, New Building Society , Marriage, Infancy/Adoption of Children, Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic, Trade Unions, Intoxication Liquor Licencing and Land Surveyors Acts.

LETTER-STREAKING IS FOOD FOR THOUGHT
(Guyana Chronicle April 15, 1974)
Sir, I have read with interest your editorial on streaking. The article gives me food for thought and I am sure that it echoes the views of quite a number of Guyanese in this permissive age.
But streaking is nothing new to Guyana, the New World Africa and India.
When anyone streaks in Guyana my opinion is that he or she is only returning to an age old custom.
Take the followers of the religion of Jainism for example.
The early Jains went completely nude and it is without doubt that they would have continued this practice had the Europeans not stepped in and convinced them that walking around naked was completely immoral.
The Africans and Indians were streaking for centuries before European values reached them.
The hot and sticky climate made the Jains and the Africans and Indians streak.
The Europeans could not streak or were discouraged from streaking for long periods because of their climatic conditions.
I certainly would not mind if all Guyanese return to streaking, it would make us much cooler and would also save our country much needed foreign exchange.
The cotton we are producing could be used to clothe our Caribbean neighbors by 1976.SGD: A Young Guyanese

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