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A Pocahontas Story

Chronicle Pepperpot September 21, 2014

– The Lost City of Gold

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he barking of the otters aroused the young, native girl from her day-dreams in the canoe, anchored in the middle of the river. She had been waiting for the sunset, a magical splendour, one of her greatest fascinations. The otters were her animal friends of the water. She watched amused their playful tactics, enticing her to join them and diving into the cool water, she swam and played games with them, always such good fun. As dusk settled in, she paddled her canoe back to the village.

“Ann Marie,” her father called out to her.

She ran over to him, where he was sitting with the chief discussing the expedition, he would be undertaking with a team of archaeologists arriving in the morning.

“You sure you don’t want to be part of this expedition?” he asked perplexed.

She shook her head, somewhat tired of the long jungle treks. She had lost interest in adventures, mysteries and discoveries, a part of her life, an inheritance from her ancestors.

Since she had matured into a young woman, her heart yearned for something new, something that would ignite a fire in her being. Sitting at the village square, late into the nightlooking at the smoldering embers of the small bonfire, she wondered, “But where do I find that?”

The day dawned with heavy mist on the mountain tops and a cool breeze, blowing across the plains. Ann Marie laid in her hut in blissful sleep, unaware, the archaeologists her father was expecting had arrived at the village and of the young man, who walked quietly in her hut and stood for a moment looking at her sleeping face. He placed a single rose, close to her and stepped out just as quietly. The sound of strange voices awoke Ann Marie some time later and turning her head, she felt the soft touch of the rose. She sat up perplexed, wondering who could have left such a beautiful flower for her and stepping outside she saw a group of white strangers, standing at the village square. She did not recognise anyone from the many strangers over the years who had visited until a voice, a little way to her right called her name, “Ann Marie.”

She turned and looked at the tall, handsome young man, not recognising him until he smiled and said, “I have kept my promise to return.”

Ann Marie gasped, her hand instinctively touching the chain on her neck, remembering the young English boy she had rescued from the plane six years ago. He had given her the chain as a momento and had told her,“I’ll always remember you and one day I’ll come back.”

“David?”

She smiled as he walked towards her and she said, “I wasn’t sure I would see you again.”

“Well, it’s not easy to forget someone, who saved your life.”

He took her hand, admiration in his blue eyes, “You look so pretty.”

Indeed, she was a slim figure with long black hair and a beautiful smile, quite different from the little girl who ran around the jungle with her pet monkey. He was here he told her, on an expedition with a team of archaeologists from his university to search for El Dorado, the lost city of gold.

“After, all this time, you still believe that it exists?” she asked “The researchers came up with some interesting facts and a few pages from an 18th century English explorer journal, have

come to light, pinpointing locations that support those facts.”

“And that’s why you are here?” she asked a little disheartened.

“Well, I could have gone to Costa Rica or Egypt,” he said casually “but I chose South America because I wanted to see you and if we do find the city of gold, I’ll be the king, you’ll be the queen and we’ll live happily ever after.”

She laughed and he kissed her hand, a tender touch, the beginning of a beautiful story, the English boy and native girl.

Ann Marie joined her father’s team but deep in her heart she wasn’t happy with the quest of the mission, for she felt the lost city of gold was part of their history, their legacy that shouldn’t be touched by strangers. Her foreparents had walked from Southern Asia, during the Ice age and made this land, their home. The explorers who came afterwards with ships wanted to steal the richness of the land thus began the fabled tale of the city of gold.

The journey through the treacherous jungle was hazardous but for Ann Marie it was another adventure for many times she had walked those paths, the jungle her playground. David was excited, enjoying this adventure but what seemed to interest him more was her company, allowing himself to be lost sometimes from the team so he could be alone with her.

The team after two weeks felt they were getting closer to their goal and enthusiasm crept into the camp. The Explorers Journal had spoken about roads paved with gold, of a golden palace and tables laid with golden cutlery. Another week later and they finally reached the place where the city of gold should have stood, but there was nothing, just a sprawling expanse of land bordered by forested trees. It was deep disappointment for the entire team for they had been so confident of success but once again like so many times over a century, the lost city of gold could not be found.

The last morning, just before dawn, Ann Marie awoke David and taking his hand, she said “Walk with me.”

They walked for a short while to a part of the jungle where the trees were less dense and taller and the orchestrated sounds of the streams and the songbirds could be heard. He asked her, “Why are we here?”

She put her arms around his waist and said “Close your eyes and let your heart beat with mine.”

A few moments later she whispered, “Open your eyes and don’t say a word.”

David opened his eyes and beheld the most marvellous, incredible sight.

The lost city of gold, stood like a dream, in its majestic, golden splendour. He was in complete awe, lost for words.

She stepped away from him, slowly and like magic the golden city disappeared.

David stared at her, incredulously, “What happened, where did it go?”

“It’s a special gift and only a few were blessed with the power to see it, now I’m the only one.”

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“But how did I see it?” he asked, unable to believe what had just happened.

“Because I held you close and our pure hearts were beating as one.”

“So it really does exist.”

“Yes, but my foreparents did not trust the white explorers and so a magic spell was cast that cannot be broken, so it will remain a myth.”

“So if I tell anyone…?”

“They’ll think you’re crazy.”

David shook his head and smiled.

“I always knew there was something different about you, you’re like an Indian Goddess.”

He took her hand and slipped a ring, made of precious stones on her finger.

“I found this in an Aztec ruin,” he told her. “It belonged to a princess of a century old dynasty. The stones represent beauty, purity and love and in my heart Ann Marie, you’re all of that.”

His words ignited in her heart, what she had unknowingly yearned for and holding her close to him, he said, with regrets in his voice, “I have to leave again but I will return soon and I want you to promise you’ll wait for me.”

She smiled, her eyes expressing something new and beautiful within her heart.

“I’ll wait for you.” she promised.

They stood there in close embrace, their hearts beating as one, looking at the lost city of gold, the throne awaiting its queen and her king and a happily ever after ending.

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By Petamber Persaud

The Gift of Reading 1

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ll my current and past projects over the last two decades are/were designed (1) to offer the gift of reading to all and sundry and (2) to elicit the help of relevant stakeholders buying into this concept.

Revisiting this idea was prompted by the slogans used by the Ministry of Education, Guyana, during Education Month and during International Literacy Day which were to ‘drop everything and read’ moment and ‘give a book’ day.

Of course, there are many other reasons for revisiting my pet please (more in subsequent articles). But first, some comments from persons who have tasted the power and pleasure of reading: Martin Carter: In 1966, Martin Carter, wrote an article titled, ‘Of Books and Citizens’, wherein he said, ‘The availability of books…makes it possible, at least, for the son of a sugar worker to acquaint himself with the thoughts and experiences of men and women in other times and other countries.

And the opportunity to meet and talk and enter into debate which the community centres provide, serves to MARTIN CARTER deepen understanding and sharpen criticism. The end result of these processes is the enrichment of the individual personality and ultimately, the enrichment of the community’.

Ian McDonald: ‘One of the things when you read, when you read something that impresses you, automatically your mind tries to assess and analyse why this is making such an impression. And part of that process, then, leads into saying let me see how this writer is trying to impress me – what he is trying to say and how he is going about it.

So the writing came

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from the reading.

If you want to write, whether you want to write professionally or if you just want to learn to write well, for the sake of writing well and that in its own right, is a good thing to want to write well, to want to express yourself clearly and logically is a very great gift quite apart from writing professionally. But if you want to do that, undoubtedly part of that is reading. Reading has to come first and reading has to be a continuous part of the process. I don’t think there is any writer, any good writer that has not been a great reader as well. Reading is an essential part of the whole business of creating work of your own.’

Dale Bisnauth: ‘I will begin by saying that literacy must be seen in the context of education and I don’t think anyone would doubt the value of education to the development of the country. If education is to be of any importance at all, it must be of economic importance to the country.

And I think that education is extremely important also for social cohesion.

Now without literacy, without being able to read and write, we can’t develop our imagination. We are poorer Dr DALE BISNAUTH as a people for that. So I think the quality and tone of society really depend in large measures on our people being literate.

Now, I think, where we don’t have that mobility then we will have trouble later on.

I, myself, I like to say, I am a living testimony as to the usefulness of literacy. I didn’t go to secondary school but today I hold a Ph. D. How did I come by my education? I literally read out the school library, I read out the libraries of all my teachers at the primary level, and I read my way to an education.

I really can’t imagine how people can do without reading, I can’t imagine how impoverish the world must be if they [the people] can’t read.’

Terence Roberts: [In my days,] Guyana was beautiful because you had the books, brand new books simultaneously with the films so all these things helped that

generation with deep comprehension, slow comprehension.

Your parents/teachers cannot teach you everything.

Education is beyond family and beyond school. School is the preparation for true education.

In the Humanities reading fiction and seeing proper films…is the preparation of the human temperament and ability to respond. This is what differentiates between a developed and backwards society.

TERENCE ROBERTS Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie, (1835-1918), the man who gifted Guyana a National Library, declared, ‘I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because …they only help those who help themselves. They never pauperise…A taste for reading drives out lower tastes’.

Andrew Carnegie was ‘a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the highest profile philanthropists of his era; his 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated wave after wave of philanthropy’. [Wikipedia] In closing, referring to the essay by Carter written in March 1966, ‘A fortnight ago, the Minister of Education in declaring open National Library ANDREW CARNEGIE Week said that while material wealth was stored in banks, intellectual wealth was stored in Libraries and added that both banks and libraries are essential to the progress of the nation’.

Responses to this author telephone (592) 226-0065 or email: oraltradition2002@yahoo.com

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Chronicle Pepperpot September 21, 2014

Covering the Hundred Years’ Period, 1831-1931

By Norman Eustace Cameron Introduction by Gemma Robinson, University of Stirling Origins of the anthology Anthologies rarely perform just the task that their titles assert. For N.E. Cameron – working his way through the poetry in the Reading Rooms of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society in Georgetown – the production of the first anthology of Guyanese literature was the answer to a request: “to give some account of the literature of this country” (“Introductory Essay”). But this was not a straightforward concern. It raised questions about the nature, status, even the possibility of a literary tradition, in what was then British Guiana. Cameron admits: “As my attention was never drawn to such matters at school, I revealed the state of my ignorance when I replied, not without much embarrassment, that I did not think the people were much addicted to literature.”

Street Government School, scenes depicting various episodes in the country’s history.“ If these works and events show a growing interest in charting specifically Guyanese achievement, it is also worth pausing to note that Cameron does not query the British imperial context for these activities (indeed he dedicated his anthology to the Govenor, Sir Edward Denham). For some his comments might reveal a tension between and assertion of cultural self-determination and a colonial politics that did not countenance the break-up of the British Empire. For others Cameron’s remarks might place him in a transitional period between the colonial and anti-colonial, when Caribbean

(“Introductory Essay”).

This response, given to friends at Cambridge while Cameron was in the UK as a student, provided the impetus for a pioneering collection of work that took seriously Guyana’s literary legacy from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The results are an anthology that charts not only the rise of poetry in colonial Guyana, but also one that surveys an emerging national poetics, the poetics of Empire and slavery, experiments in literary form, and one that provides a key chapter in the

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country’s history of the book.

The ninety-three poems collected here voice the shifting emphases of several generations of poets, variously identifying their population as “Demerara’s Sons” (Egbert Martin (‘Leo’)), “sons of Africa” (T.R.F. Elliot) and “Guiana’s sons” (Walter MacA. Lawrence). These differing labels mark the changing times and possible future identities of people in the South American territory. In Cameron’s generation the futures of the Caribbean colonies were debated in terms both political and cultural, and the date of the anthology’s publication is significant. He explains in a later work: “1931 was a year of great inspiration to Guianese. It was the Centenary of the Union of the three counties of Berbice, Essequibo and Demerara into the Colony British Guiana.

An outburst of literary activity greeted the event – Webber’s Centenary History, Cameron’s Guianese Poetry, Magazines by Eric Stoby and Marion Rockcliffe, Hildred Britton’s Stages of Development of British Guiana’s Womanhood, 1831-1931, while Balthasar, a drama by the author, gave the impetus to dramatic writings and productions by Esme Cendrecourt.

The Centenary was duly observed by several events, an outstanding one being a Centenary Exhibition and Fair held on the grounds of the G.C.C. and G.F.C. with a section devoted to Education. The Centenary was commemorated by the institution of a Centenary Scholarship the number of which was subsequently increased. The Governor entered into the spirt of the occasion when he suggested that Guianese painters might paint on the panels of the tank in the yard of the new Broad

activists and intellectuals began to map out different ways of understanding their pasts and present. Certainly, Cameron’s editorial endeavours in Guyana were not isolated. 1925 saw the publication of Louis Morpeau’s Anthologie d’un siècle de poesie haitienne, 1817-1925, setting a precedent for collecting nineteenth and twentieth-century poets together. In 1929 J.E. Clare McFarlane’s Voices from Summerland: An Anthology of Jamaican Poetry was published in London. Eight years later Albert Gomes would edit From Trinidad: A Selection from the Fiction and Verse of the Island of Trinidad, British West Indies, building on the work if Beacon, the literary and cultural journal whose first issue came out in 1931. By the time Guianese Poetry was published in 1931, the challenge of popularizing the work of contemporary poets and their predecessors, and the challenges of forging and describing

cultural independence in the Caribbean, were being discusses across the region.

Norman Cameron For Cameron, the anthology was one of many publishing projects to which he devoted his time. Born Norman Eustace Cameron in 1903, his academic abilities were quickly identified and he won the Guyana Scholarship to study in the UK. Returning to Guyana in 1926 after studying Mathematics at Cambridge, he taught in Georgetown, at the private Guianese Academy, and later at the prestigious Queens College. He combined this career with research that encompassed both local and global interests, publishing his two volumes of The Evolution of the Negro in 1929 and 1934. It is this text, perhaps more than any of his more Guyanese-focused research that is remembered today. An early work in the field of black consciousness, it was prompted by Cameron’s concern to understand and value African and African diasporic civilisation – an impulse felt across the black populations of European empires and the Americas, including the Negritude movement of Aime Cesaire and Leopold Sedar Senghor. Cameron’s other interests led him to assess education, politics, church history and librarianship, as well as to write a number of plays that dealt with African and biblical history, such as Balthazar (1931), Adoniya (1943) and Sabaco (1947).

All these activities placed Cameron at the heart of a cultural life in Guyana that prioritised education, historical awareness and literary accomplishment.

Like many writers and researchers in Guyana before the 1960s, Cameron often produced these works as pamphlets in Georgetown, self-publishing them with the printing services of the local newspapers, and selling them to like-minded Guyanese (largely Georgetown) residents. He writes in his “Introductory Essay” that “I consider it a service to the community to present this publication”. This work would become even more precious in 1945, when the rare copies of Guyanese literature housed in the library of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society were destroyed in the fire that consumed much of Georgetown.

Guyanese literary culture, 1831-1931 In his study of education in British Guiana, Cameron summarizes his view of the nineteenth-century cultural milieu in the colony: “To an educator in this country at the beginning of the nineteenth century the position would have been that of a mass of uneducated enslaved people with here and there one who could read or write, a Mohammedan from Gambia maybe, or a few trained by some benevolent persons, and on the other hand a small section of comparatively highly educated but often immoral white colonists – planters, merchants, Government officials who supplied the administration of the country – together with some free persons of African descent (pure or mixed), taking their lead from the whites.”

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Chronicle Pepperpot September 21, 2014 This social context has consequences for the literature published in the colony, and for Cameron’s anthology of insistently textual, rather than oral, culture.

According to the 1827 and 1829 censuses, the total population of what would become British Guiana was just over 100,000, of which approximately 90% was enslaved. To be a published poet in Guyana in the first part of the nineteenth century, we might assume, was to be a member of a small white colonial elite. The first editor that Cameron records fits this description. Known only as ‘Colonist’, this poet published Midnight Musings: Being a Collection of Poems on Various Subjects in 1832, with (as Cameron records in his “Introductory Essay”) a damning proviso: the Colony, though fertile in everything else, is barren in incidents for poetical display”. Here we find a first model of literary composition in Guyana: that of the displaced colonist, uninterested or unable to respond to a Guyanese cultural landscape, and writing instead of a reconstructed England.

But the nineteenth century also saw the rise of multiple institutions that would explicitly locate cultural production in Guyana. In 1810, rooms in the Union Coffee House were converted to become the first Theatre Royal. During the 1800s Georgetown added to this the Athenaeum, the Assembly Rooms and the Philharmonic Hall. In 1844 the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society was founded to provide (in the words of A.J. Seymour) “an apparatus for literary and other discussions for the ruling British group in Georgetown”. Its journal, Timehri, was first published in 1882. The British Guiana Museum opened with its first exhibition in 1868. The Young Men’s Guild (established 1896) provided a forum for intellectual debate.

While these institutions were narrow in their membership and scope, they marked a collective wish to explore the specific locality of British Guiana, and its history. And increasingly, poets – from differing sections of Guyanese society – would be drawn to local subjects and the possibilities of a local poetry.

Guyanese publications and newspapers offered writers new opportunities to see their creative work in print, and well into the twentieth century this would be a crucial way for writers to publish across the Caribbean region. Walter Rodney reminds us that by the end of the nineteenth century Guyana’s press was wide-ranging: Only the Argosy was an unwavering voice of the planter class. The Chronicle and the Royal Gazette were capable of being liberal, and most other publications were to the ‘left.’ The Creole and the Working Man assumed the mantle of spokesman of the middle and lower classes during the 1870s, and the same role was later played in the 1880s by the Villager, the Echo, and the Reflector – with the Liberal joining the ranks in the 1890s.

Voices from abroad remained of high prestige, at least in some quarters of the press. The Australian-born, eighteen-year old Vincent Roth, who had recently arrived from the UK in 1907, was immediately offered a post at the Argosy as Assistant Sub-Editor “with and extra $3 per column for literary contributions”. Nevertheless, in the same period the local writer, Harold W.B. Moore, best known as a weekly newspaper columnist, was also publishing poetry in the Argosy, and in Cameron’s generation the B.G. Literary Society focused activities for Georgetown writers. With this anthology Cameron begins the job of reading and collecting the ephemeral poetry of Guyana, from both the past and his present. He is by no means comprehensive (his acknowledgements thank only the Daily Argosy and the Chronicle Christmas Annual), but he begins an important task, and one that is unfinished today.

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The Poems The hundred years’ period that Cameron researched for his anthology covered slavery, emancipation, indentureship, the age of British imperialism and intimations of its decline. What is striking about the anthology for us today is how the poetry of that century registers its present, and the formal choices the poets made when composing their work. Part of the pleasure of reading an anthology such as this is trying to trace the relationships of influence and lines of experimentation that might lead to a particular poem. Equally, we might turn to this anthology to gauge poetic responses to key moments that have shaped the Caribbean’s past.

For Cameron, the discovery of early poetic voices from the black populations of Guyana was particularly significant, and he singles them out in his introduction. Simon Christopher

Oliver’s occasional poem written in the year of emancipation (1838) is a particular bibliographical triumph, as are the poems included from Thomas Don’s Pious Effusions (printed in new Amsterdam in 1873), and the commemorative songs from the Emancipation Jubilee of 1888, organized by T.R.F. Elliott.

Oliver ( a free Grenadian-born schoolmaster in Buxton), is preceded chronologically only by ‘Colonist’ in the anthology, but Oliver’s work makes clear the narrowness of his predecessor’s complaint about the ‘barrenness’ of incidents in the colony.

Colonial experience drives the poem: “On this glad day the galling chains of Slavery were broke / From off the necks of Afric’s sons, who bled beneath its yoke”. Oliver’s iambic rhyming couplets shift between celebration of the social liberation that comes with emancipation and moral guidance on who “ye first of August freed men” might “salute” for this liberty. Progressing through its twelve lines, this poem of thanks is full of celebratory commands and statements of obligation with which the newly freed population must comply. It is “Queen Victoria”, “God”, “your masters” and “Great Britain” who are the active agents of liberation here and Oliver instructs: “Then you should sing, God Save the Queen, oh, may she live forever”.

Fifty years later the poets of the Emancipation Jubilee would retain only God as their object of gratitude, and by 1930 Cameron’s own “A Brave Boy” venerates “Christophe’s breed”, invoking the Haitian Revolution to link a hero black past to a Caribbean present. In his pursuit of an African-Caribbean poetic, Cameron also acknowledges his editorial practices of censorship: he deletes ‘nigger’, replacing it with ‘skipper’ in henry G. Dalton’s “The Essequibo and its Tributaries” and cuts a stanza from Martin’s “the Negro Yard”.

What emerges from the anthology is the possibility of a Creole literary tradition whose heritage is dually African-Caribbean and European. For example, Cameron’s “On Favouritism: A Sonnet and a Tale” rewrites Guianese folk traditions into Standard English and canonical poetic forms. This idea of a dual heritage might also account for the balancing of proto-nationalist work – such as Walter MacA. Lawrence’s “Forward Guiana’s Sons” and Vere T. Daly’s “The Song of Young Guiana” – with the unacknowledged prevalence of pro-Empire verse. Egbert Martin’s “Additional verses Written for the National Anthem” is perhaps the famous example, but consider also Mrs. Z. G. R’s 1855 poem, “Great Britain”, notable one of the only two female writers included.

If Cameron’s version of Creole poetic heritage is forged through largely male writers, even more apparent is the silence of Amerindians and Indian-Guyanese voices. Dalton’s “The Carib’s Complaint” (1853) and Martin’s “The Hammock Maker (An Indian Eclogue)” 91883) voice an Amerindian experience of cultural and personal loss. Using the seven-syllable trochaic line so common in English poetry (from ballads to Shakespeare to Wordsworth), Martin identifies a symbolic ‘sage’ who silently marks the passing of an age:

Bowed with age and feebleness, Crowned with locks all silvery white, Eyes so dim and lusterless, Slowly sinking in life’s night.

Dalton on the other hand, is willing to imagine an Amerindian consciousness, but in his pursuit of the poetic form of the complaint, he fails to see the living presence of Amerindian communities in Guiana: “I go like a Carib – the last of my race / And leave not behind one memento or trace”. Certainly, the multiple ethnicities of the Guyanese population leave an uneven trace in Cameron’s anthology. Just as striking as the poetic decision about representing Amerindians is Cameron’s editorial decision to omit Indian-Guyanese writers. He notes in the “Introductory Essay” that Joseph Ruhoman and C. E. J. Rancharitar-Lalla are “adding their contribution to our stock or

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religious poetry”, but he makes no comment on their absence from the anthology. In 1934, in response to Cameron’s Guianese Poetry, Ramcharitar-Lalla presented a parallel tradition, editing The Anthology of Local Indian Verse (including the work of J. W. Chinapen, W. W. Persaud, Ramcharitar-Lalla, Joseph and Peter Ruhoman).

If Guianese Poetry fails to fully register song and folk traditions within its pages, and offers a limited picture of writing, ethnicity, gender and class, there is still much to discover about poetic sensibility. The four main sections – Narrative Poems, Nature Poems, Tropical and Miscellaneous Poems, Moral and Religious Poems – identify modes of Caribbean writing that persist into the twenty-first century. Topography and climate provide many comparative examples of Caribbean writers’ wish to describe a local landscape. At times this is taxonomic, as in Walter MacA. Lawrence’s “Sylvan Guiana”:

Each towering Greenheart are ingot, Each Mora, a nugget of gold; Each Purpleheart an expression Of something more brilliant than wood.

With each name comes an articulation of Caribbean particularity, and this is repeated throughout the anthology: in the detailed focus of Martin’s praise song for “the love-star” of “The Sorrel-Tree”, Harold W.B Moore’s for the ‘sea-scent’ of “The North Wind” or W.A. Buttery’s “Mighty Mazaruni”. It is important to remember the longevity of this impulse, from near contemporaries, such as A.J Seymour, and most famously in the Adamic poetry of Derek Walcott.

Guianese Poetry Today Were we to judge Cameron’s anthology by the endurance of these nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, we might have to conclude that it failed to create and sustain a reading public for Guyana’s early writers. His anthology only ran to one edition in Guyana. By the time A.J Seymour came to edit A Treasury of Guyanese Poetry in 1980 the goal of extended historical representation remained important, but Seymour notes that it is the period from 1940-1980 “which marks the emergence of the modern Guyana and which has produced the greater part of the poems collected here”. Writing about twentieth-century West Indian poetry, Edward Baugh claims “the poets of the post-1940 mainstream do not consider themselves to be descendants of (their) forerunners, who produced a strictly colonial poetry”. Reading Seymour’s anthology alongside Camron’s collection only Cameron, “Colonists”, Thomas Don, Walter MacA. Lawrence, Egbert Martin (‘Leo’) and A. R. F. Webber find a home in Seymour’s later selection.

But we should not be quick to limit Cameron’s editorial endeavours to that of historical curiosity. While it might be difficult to find the family resemblances between the literary concerns of later Guyanese writing and these early literary experimentations, it is worth reflecting on the familiar and unfamiliar features of this combined body of work. We might, for example, conclude that the narrative and religious poetry collected by Cameron would seem out of place in contemporary Caribbean poetics, but here then is the task for us readers. A full reckoning of Caribbean poetry has to make sense of discordant, dated and forgotten voices, as well as those voices that seem to cohere with and encourage later poetic forms. Cameron’s anthology – with its editorial idiosyncrasies and bibliographical drive – challenges use to see, where no-one had before, a textual community of Guyanese poets.

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Many teeth problems are related to electrical currents

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t is not unusual for patients to complain of a “shocking” pain coming from a tooth that has recently been filled. Many of the problems I see in my patients are related to electrical currents caused by dissimilar metals in the mouth. Any chemical engineer can tell you that when you put two different metals together in a salt solution, metals act as a battery, and depending upon which metals you combine, the amount of electricity generated can vary.

The amount of current produced in the mouth by having different metals in the mouth would seem quite small. But when you consider that your entire nervous system is managed by a very small electrical current, you would readily understand the significance. In fact, the five metals in amalgam, when placed in saliva, could generate enough current to interfere with your brain or heart function. When you begin to realise the impact of even a subtle electrical charge on your nervous system, it is actually surprising that this link has remained so elusive.

Every action you take, every thought you have is propelled into bodily function by tiny electrical impulses jumping across the synapses in your nervous system and across cell membranes. These electrical messages are actually a form of language that the nervous system decodes and relays, for example, from your brain to your hand. Some of these are conscious, like when you decide to turn the pages of a book.

Every hour billions of electrical impulses create an automatic messaging system that keeps your body functioning as a highly sophisticated series of processes. Everything from the production of blood cells to the rate at which your bones deteriorate is controlled by the network of electrical impulses in the nervous system. The electrical ‘messages’ emanating from the metals in your mouth may be in disharmony and interfere with your normal electrical signals and it should hardly seem remarkable that this current could make you ill. So whenever patients attend my clinic complaining of a tooth that “shocks,” I first check for dissimilar intra-oral metals if dental work was done recently.

Studies from Europe indicate that is considered acceptable for teeth to emit electricity below 100 millivolts and three micro amps. Many of my patients’ fillings exceed the norms, especially when gold or other metals are in the mouth along with amalgams.

In my experience, excess current floating around your body can have a very serious impact. Because the current flows through the path of least resistance, it is very difficult to predict the effects, or where the resulting problems will occur. Diagnosing the impact is difficult, and a lot of research is needed in this area. But interestingly, more than 50 years ago, the American Dental Association journal included studies about systemic effects of these galvanic currents. The article noted the symptoms of galvanism as being: 1. Metallic or salty taste.

2. Increased salivary secretion.

3. Burning or tingling sensation along the tongue.

4. Occasional nerve shocks and pulp sensitivity from connecting restorations or by connections made with a spoon or fork.

5. Pathological changes in the blood, kidney or organs or probably caused by absorption of ionised toxic metals.

6. Generalised discomfort in the mouth, irritability, indigestion, loss of weight, and in some cases, reflex radiating neurologic pains through branches of the fifth trigeminal nerve.

When I see a problem clear up instantaneously or within a few hours, then I can logically assume it was electrical in nature. Mercury does not leave the body this quickly. At least half of the improvements reported to me by my patients fall into this category. When 60 Minutes did their show in 1990 about dental amalgams, one of the people interviewed described how she got out of her wheelchair in a few hours. The ADA said this could not have happened so quickly if she had been mercury toxic. In any event, your dentist should evaluate and advise you when you permanently have different metals in your simultaneously.

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Cheating Dad Has Lost His Daughter's Love Unvarnished Truth A few years ago I learned my father was cheating on my mom. I was sleeping in my parents' room, and my younger siblings and I had just come home from school.

Because my parents' room is the most comfortable, I decided to nap there.

I was already in a deep sleep when my mother came into the room. She was back from work. Not long after my father came home, too.

Till this day I can't recall the beginning of their argument, nor can I stop wondering how they did not notice I was there. Perhaps they simply didn't care at that point.

My mom told my father she was positive for some STD and accused him of cheating, because, god knows, throughout their 15 years of marriage she remained faithful.

My father told my mom he loved another woman and wished to be with her. My mom told him to go if he wanted, but she would want a divorce. My father disagreed saying he didn't want his family to break up.

At that point I had the urge to yell, but I pretended to be asleep. How dare my father say that.. He was never there. He wasn't there at sports day when I won a prize, he wasn't there for my ballet recital and he wasn't there when I received a prize for placing first in my year group.

My mom was always there, and if she wasn't, she had a damn good reason. She cooked, cleaned, worked, played with us and tucked us in at night. But as great a mother as she was it could never fill the gap of not having my father there.

That moment was also when I found out my mother was pregnant. I was as shocked as my father was when she told him. I can't recall what happened after that. I think I just blacked out or walked out of the room. It was too much for a 12-year-old.

Later my mom asked my dad to leave. In his hotel room my father explained he did something bad to my mother and regretted it. But as much as we asked, he wouldn't say what it was. I thought my father was a coward then because he couldn't even tell the truth.

It's been a couple of years now. My parents decided to try to mend their marriage, but the whole situation is one big fat elephant in the room. Sometimes I have the urge to yell at my father when he scolds me over some minor matter.

When people ask do I want to get married, I always say no. They ask why and I say because I don't want to. But I know the real reason. I'm scared. I never want to experience what my mom did.

Sometimes I just want to snap.

Peggy Peggy, you long resented your father's absences and his cheating gave you something to hang that resentment on. You don't say it, but you must wonder if he skipped your events because he was with another woman.

It must be maddening to be corrected by your father over minor matters when you know his major failing. Still, that doesn't give you the freedom to do whatever you like. What he did doesn't erase his role in your life.

The problem is you don't respect him. But you cannot wallow in it. Then your whole life will be determined by an argument you overheard.

Consider this knowledge to be an advantage. You now know you can't put any two people together and have a happy marriage. There has to be the highest form of love between them. There must be a perfect fit.

We don't get to choose the people we are born to, nor the social and economic class we are born in. What we can choose is how to make the best of it.

Wayne & Tamara

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Chief Justice rules witness’s deposition admissible The prosecution won the legal battle with the judge deciding that the deposition of Dr. Cyril Leslie Mootoo who left British Guiana on the MV Oranjestead, 1963, be tendered in evidence in his absence and read to the jury.

Chief Justice Harold Bollers after taking evidence under Section 95 of the Evidence Ordinance Cap 25, as amended

by Ordinance 29 of 1961 to have admitted in evidence the deposition of a witness on the ground of his absence from the Colony, after boarding the ship MV Oranjestead.

As a consequence the judge ruled that the deposition of the witness Dr. Cyril Leslie Mootoo, the Government Bacteriologist and Pathologist be tendered and admitted in evidence and read to the jury.

It was proved that the deponent had left by a ship which was piloted by a witness out of the Georgetown Harbour.

The witness had however left the vessel while it was still in territorial waters, and because of this, it was submitted by the defence that there was no legal evidence that the vessel was bound for some port outside of British Guiana; the defence also objected to the admissibility, as to the truth of its contents, of an embarkation card filled up by the deponent immediately before his departure. In the card the deponent had stated his destination as Plymouth, England. This submission was overruled by Justice Bollers.

The judge added: “I am in agreement with counsel for the prosecution in his submission that with or without the admissibility of the documentary evidence, there is sufficient evidence on the record to prove that the ship, MV Oranjestead, when it sailed from the Georgetown Harbour on its outward journey from British Guiana on 3rd September, 1963, with the deponent, Cyril Leslie Mootoo on board, it was bound for a port or place beyond British Guiana.”

“There is the further evidence of enquiry being made by the immigration officer and the constable at the residence and business place of the witness and the failure to find him which must not be overlooked, and I therefore arrive at the conclusion that I am reasonably satisfied by the oath of a credible witness of the absence of the deponent witness from British Guiana and I rule that the deposition be tendered and admitted in evidence and read to the jury.”

Crown Counsel Mr. Doodnauth Singh appeared for the

Satan Visits the Church

One bright, beautiful Sunday morning, everyone in tiny Jonestown wakes up early and goes to their local church. Before the service starts, the townspeople sit in their pews and talk about their lives and their families.

Suddenly, at the altar, Satan appears!! Everyone starts screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in their determined efforts to get away from Evil Incarnate. Soon, everyone is evacuated from the church except for one man, who sit calmly in his pew, seemingly oblivious to the fact that God's ultimate enemy is in his presence. This confuses Satan a bit. Satan walks up to the man and says, "Hey, don't you know who I am?" The man says, "Yep, sure do."

Satan says, "Well, aren't you afraid of me?" The man says, "Nope, sure ain't."

Satan, perturbed, says, "And why aren't you afraid of me?" The man says, "Well, I've been married to your sister for 25 years." ***********************************************

Nuns discussing drinks

Arthur was sitting outside his local pub one day, enjoying a quiet pint and generally feeling good about himself, when a nun suddenly appears at his table and starts decrying the evils of drink.

"You should be ashamed of yourself young man! Drinking is a Sin! Alcohol is the blood of the devil!"

By George Barclay

Crown while Mr. L. F. S. Burnham, Q.C, S. E. Brotherson, R. H. Mc Kay and W.R. Adams appeared for the accused.

Chief Justice Bollers added: ”In this indictment for murder, the prosecution under Section 95 of the Evidence Ordinance, Cap. 25, seek to tender and have admitted in evidence the deposition of Dr. Cyril Leslie Mootoo the Government Bacteriologist and Pathologist, on the ground of absence from the Colony of British Guiana.”

“The defence opposed the application on the broad ground of failure to comply with the Section and failure on the part of the prosecution to establish the requirements of sub-section 4 of Section 95 as repealed and re-enacted by Section 2 of the Miscellaneous Enactments (Amendments) Ordinance, No. 29 of 1961, and more particularly they urge that there is no proof that the deponent was on board a vessel on its outward journey from British Guiana bound for some port or place beyond British Guiana.”

Now Arthur gets pretty annoyed about this, and goes on the offensive.

"How do *you* know, Sister?"

"My Mother Superior told me so" "But have you ever had a drink yourself? How can you be sure that what you are saying is right?"

"Don't be ridiculous - of course I have never taken alcohol myself" "Then let me buy you a drink - if you still believe afterwards that it is evil I will give up drink for life" "How could I, a Nun, sit outside this public house drinking?!"

"I'll get the barman to put it in a teacup for you, then no-one will know" The Nun reluctantly agrees, so Arthur goes inside to the bar.

"Another pint for me, and a triple vodka on the rocks," then he lowers his voice and says to the barman "... and could you put the vodka in a teacup?"

"Oh no! It's not that drunken Nun again is it?" **************************************************************

Very stupid robbers

Two robbers were robbing a hotel. The first one said, "I hear sirens.

Jump!"

The second one said, "But we're on the 13th floor!"

The first one screamed back, "This is no time to be superstitious." **************************************************************

Breaking into a house

A man went to the Police Station wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before.

"You'll get your chance in court." said the Desk Sergeant.

"No, no no!" said the man. "I want to know how he got into the house without waking my wife. I've been trying to do that for years!" **************************************************************

Where is your wife?

On a rural road a state trooper pulled this farmer over and said:

"Sir, do you realise your wife fell out of the car several miles back?"

To which the farmer replied: "Thank God, I thought I had gone deaf!"

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GROWING TROUBLE

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By Neil Primus

randfather was a Rumboogie. He drank morning noon and night.

When Joel was drunk he was great fun to be around. He would tell stories about Jumbie and Old Haigue.

He would also be over generous with his money. Next day he would have no memory of who he gave what.

His grandchildren loved him.

Whenever he told one of his stories the children would laugh and never take him seriously. They knew he was regularly drunk and thought he had made up all the tales he related to them. They were wrong. One night he told them a story that for the first time scared them.

Joel was heading home after 12 a.m. He was so drunk that his shirt was out of his pants and unbuttoned. He looked a sight. He staggered, stumbled and fell as he negotiated his way home. He had been drinking since six and was forced to stop at 12.15 when the barman refused to sell him any more rum. Angrily he stumbled from the rum shop.

The moon showed itself in brief patches.

It was cloudy and the thick clouds did a good job of hide and seek with the moonlight.

Whenever the moon burst from behind a cloud, shadows sprang to life and you needed little imagination to begin to see things.

Laughing and talking to himself Joel made uncertain progress. As he ventured along he heard a noise and saw some kind of movement.

Curiosity got the better of him. Shakily he headed for the next side of the road. There in the deep shadows stood a young boy. Joel had to really focus his intoxicated brain and eyes.

“Wa…Wat yu doing hey so late boy?”

“I live up so.”

“Ok lea we go lang. I gon drap yu home.”

With that kind gesture Joel bought himself a truck load of trouble.

The boy walked beside Joel silent and observant. After a short distance things changed drastically. As soon as the moon drifted from behind the clouds and its light filled the night, the boy beside Joel began to grow at an astonishing rate. Each step he took caused him to progress in two major directions; forward and upward. By the time they had covered 20 metres the child had become a towering

monster. Luckily the monster was not too interested in the drunk. He had more important matters on his mind.

Liquor had dulled Joel’s senses. He had lost count of how many drinks he had consumed. What he was certain of was that it was causing him to see things. He looked around for the boy but found what looked like the trunk of a coconut tree there instead. Even though the boy had vanished, Joel was more intrigued by the fact that the tree beside him had appeared out of nowhere and was moving forward at a steady pace.

This needed serious investigation. The drunken man looked up at the tree and instantly regretted it. As he tilted his head back the world began to wobble and tip over. He tried to steady himself and looked for a second time. No leaves, no branches. Joel was now convinced that not only was he seeing things but he had gone crazy.

There at the top of the tree were two hands and a head.

There was one terrifying fact about the head. It belonged to the little boy.

Shaking his head to try and clear it, Joel squinted at the strange sight. It was still there. The large head was tilted backwards as the creature maintained an unflinching gaze at the moon. Staring upwards for the drunken man caused problems with balance and clear vision.

Joel started to fall backwards but steadied himself by grabbing onto the trunk of the tree. No wait a minute! It was not a tree it was a leg.

When that thought sunk in through the rum, shock followed closely. It was the latter that caused him to hastily release the leg and fall flat on his back. Just in time.

SPLAT!!

A hand as large as a coconut branch crashed into the side of the leg that he had just released. If he had been unfortunate enough to still be holding it, he would have discovered what it is like to be a mosquito on the receiving end of a swat.

Lying on his back on the road and staring up at the creature did two things.

It cleared Joel’s mind a bit and it gave his memory access to files about Moongazer.

His survival instinct kicked in and he decided it was time to get out of there. That proved to be harder than he expected. He tried this way then that way. Each way he turned he was greeted by a large foot. There seemed no escape for him. Soon he began to accept the fact that he was trapped. Was this it? Would he die here on the road tonight?”

Then his fortune changed.

A large cloud completely obscured the moon. As suddenly as he had appeared he disappeared. The boy was back at his side, but not for long. Joel understood what he was dealing with. He knew whenever the moonlight returned the monster would be back. Taking advantage of the welcomed darkness he decided it would be prudent to be home before the moon appeared again. And he was.

Speed and purpose were not lacking as Joel raced home. The rum became the fuel for his speed. The only issue about his narrow escape was the pitter, patter of little running feet behind him all the way home.

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Pepperpot’s weekly Health Digest…

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ost entrepreneurs are accustomed to long days and hectic schedules. But if you want to make smart decisions for your company, what you put in your body matters almost as much as how many hours you put in at the office.

Here are seven foods you should add to your regular diet if you want to keep firing on all cylinders. These foods may not make you smarter, but they’ll help you stay sharp and think clearly–especially when you’ve been glued to your desk for 12 hours.

1. Salmon (Fish). This is one of the best brain foods out there. Salmon is rich in Omega 3 essential fatty acids that have been shown to enhance memory and cognition. Plus, Omega 3s have anti-inflammatory properties that have been shown to reduce the incidence of heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s.

Shoot for three servings of wild Alaskan salmon a week.

2. Flax. This plant-based source of Omega 3 is perfect for vegetarians and vegans. Not only does flax improve brain function, but it helps reduce inflammation and improve circulation.

Flax also helps lower cholesterol and balance blood sugar, making it a great supplement to include in any diet. Sprinkle a tablespoon of ground flax seeds to oatmeal or add a tablespoon of flax oil to smoothies or salad dressings.

3. Blueberries mostly called ‘Jamoon’ in Guyana. These berries contain flavonoids–antioxidants that have been shown to help improve your ability to learn and enhance motor skills. Flavonoids also help prevent degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia. Add a cup to your morning oatmeal or to a smoothie. Or simply keep them on hand for a quick and healthy afternoon snack.

4. Nuts and seeds. This perfect afternoon snack is a good source of both Omega 3 and Omega 6 essential fatty acids, which improve brain function. Plus, nuts contain vitamin E, which has been shown to help protect the brain from free-radical damage. Walnuts are best for brainpower. Cashews and sunflower seeds contain an amino acid that helps boost serotonin levels and alleviate stress.

5. Eggs. Eggs are a great source of choline, a necessary building block for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which helps you concentrate and recall information. Studies have shown that people with Alzheimer’s have depleted amounts of this important neurotransmitter.

6. Dark green leafy vegetables. Kale, chard, spinach, and other dark green vegetables contain B-vitamins, including folic acid, which help shield your brain from the effects of aging.

These veggies are also loaded in antioxidants that help protect against heart disease and cancer.

Eat dark greens daily in salads or as a side dish.

7. Chocolate. This treat is rich in flavanol antioxidants that increase blood flow to the brain, helping to protect brain cells. But the percentage of cacao is important–the darker the chocolate, the better. Enjoy a small square of dark chocolate after lunch for an afternoon boost.

(Information gathered and extracted from healthdigezt.com).

Join us again next week where we will the telling you about the nutritional values and benefits of our very own Guyanese Coconut water and Soursop fruit.

Foods that can boost brain power

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Is Shahid Kapoor taking a dig at Kareena Kapoor Khan?

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he Haider actor recently commented on his pairing with the former flame. What did Mr Kapoor say about Ms Khan?

It all started, jab they met. Shahid and Kareena’s pairing was once the hot talk of

B-town. The duo’s romantic fairytale however witnessed a bitter end and the two actors aren’t on speaking terms anymore. Let’s just say it was good while it lasted. Or was it? Shahid Kapoor certainly thinks otherwise. In a recent statement the Haider actor said: “Kareena and I were a flop pair.” Ouch! That’s gotta hurt!

Relax folks it’s not how it appears to be. Shahid was in fact talking about his onscreen pairing with Bebo.” We did three films and people didn’t like our pairing in any of them. At that time, people didn’t like seeing us together, but we kept trying. So with Jab We Met, it was almost like people, by mistake, watched it and said: “Oh, these two do look good together.”

Talking further about the film, the actor said: “Today, everyone feels it is this huge movie, but when it had released, it was just like any other hit film.”

Jennifer Winget: Everything is fine between Karan and I! Is the couple parting ways for real?

Early today we heard shocking stories about telly land’s popular couple heading for a divorce. We tried our best to get in touch with Jennifer Winget and Karan Singh Grover to get a confirmation on this, but the couple didn’t respond.

It seems Jennifer Winget just got on the social networking sites and refuted the rumours. She tweeted, “Hi guys! These are all rumours. Everything is fine between Karan and I.” Well Karan and Jennifer were spotted together at the recently held Indian Telly Awards. The couple seemed pretty fine with each other, but speculations about fights between the couple have been in the rumour mills for quite some time now.

We hope all is fine between the couple, like Jennifer claims

Chronicle Pepperpot September 21, 2014

Wedding bells for Anushka Shetty?

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umour has it that the Baahubali actress is planning to tie the knot soon.

Southern hottie, Anushka Shetty is a busy bee these days. The leggy lass has her hands full with multiple projects in the Tamil as well as the Telugu film industry. Apparently, there was an incident at the sets of Rajinikanth’s Lingaa which has spread rumours regarding Anushka’s marriage like wild fire.

A little birdie tells us that a debutant director met Anushka at the shooting spot of Lingaa and narrated to her a script.

While the Irandam Ulagam actress loved the script, she politely turned it down stating that she is planning to settle down after completing her pending projects.

Anushka has her hands full with SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali, KS Ravikumar’s Lingaa and Gautham Menon’s Thala 55.

A source revealed:” It was only because of her marriage plans that she politely declined to work in this film, though she liked the director’s script very much. Anushka will be settling down after her shoot for Rajamouli’s film is over.”

While the fans are shocked at Anushka’s sudden marriage plans and are hoping for the rumours to be false, we wonder who isher husband to be! We will have to wait and watch if Anushka opens up about her marriage.

Vishal gets into action mode shooting for Poojai in Bihar!

The film unit is busy shooting for high octane chase sequences in Bihar.

Director Hari is known for his fast paced screenplay and adrenaline pumping fight sequences. The filmmaker’s next project Poojai starring Vishal and Shruti Haasan is no different. Recently we heard that Vishal and co are off to Bihar to shoot for high octane chase sequences for the film.

The shooting for Poojai is taking place at a brisk pace, in fact the filming is said to have happened quicker than the original schedule. A little birdie tells us that the director has apparently roped in a politician from Bihar to play a pivotal role in the film. While

the name of the politician has not been disclosed, the masses are keen to know the identity of the politico, making debut in Tamil cinema.

After the completion of the fight scenes, the Poojai team is said to fly to Switzerland to shoot for song picturised on Shruti Haasan and Vishal. Actor turned producer Vishal is confident of the film’s success and seems to be determined to clash with Vijay’s Kaththi and Vikram’s Ai this Diwali. With back to back hits like Pandiya Naadu and Naan Sigappu Manithan, no wonder Vishal is upbeat about Poojai.

(Source: Bollywood.com)

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John Dumelo Is Handsome But I Cant Date Him – Actress

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elebrated TV presenter and actress, Joselyn Dumas, has said though actor John Dumelo is a perfect gentleman, ambitious and has good looks, she cannot enter into a relationship with him because both of them belong to the showbiz industry.

“I don’t understand what you mean by asking if John Dumelo is my ideal man. But what I can say is that he is a very creative actor, ambitious and a gentleman. I don’t know what you mean by that, but I have made it my policy not to date an industry person and John and I find ourselves in the same showbiz industry,” Joselyn explained on Peace FM’s Entertainment Review last Saturday.

She was clarifying the relationship between herself and Dumelo and insisted it was purely a professional and cordial one that has nothing to do with eroticism.

Joselyn did not, however, tell whether she was currently in a relationship or not.

The celebrated actress also confirmed she has a child but insisted there was no reason discussing the child in the media.

“I am a proud mother, and it is already out there that I have a child, but what people are not sure of is whether the child is a son or a daughter. My child is still young, and until she becomes an adult, I am responsible for making

Genevieve Nnaji In Monique Lhuillier, Tiwa Savage In Valentino, Rita Dominic, Funke Akindele & More

First Fashion Pics At Mo Abudu 50th Birthday

Media Mogul Mo Abudu turned 50 on Thursday 11th September and she the Ebony Life TV boss makes 50 look so damn good! To celebrate turning the Big 5-0, she threw a lavish event tagged “Mo @ 50, The Sisterhood Awards” to give back to inspiring, deserving and unsung women in the society.

The event took place last night (Sept. 13) at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos and some of the celebs in attendance were Genevieve Nnaji, Tiwa Savage (who flew into Lagos just for a few hours for the event and right back to London where she is headlining a concert with Davido tomorrow), Funke Akindele, Iyanya, Rita Dominic, Seyi Shay, Toke Makinwa, Zainab Balogun, Ebuka Obi Uchendu, Gbemi Olateru Olagbegi and loads more who took to social media to share pics of their stunning outfits and selfies from the event.

decisions for her. I am the one who has decided to be in the media; my child has not made such a decision so I have to keep her out, and I think you must understand me and respect the decisions I make for my child.

“When she becomes of age, and she decides to be in the media, I would allow her; all I may do is to guide her. But until then, I have decided to protect her from the media and the public for now,” the actress explained.

The actress had gone to the Entertainment Review programme to propagate her upcoming campaign against the spread of cholera, but the discussion panel decided to ask her a few questions outside the subject for which she went there.

“On Tuesday, we would be at Okaishie, in the Central Bussiness District of Accra, to preach against cholera. I would be there in person, Tinny would be there, several of my fellow filmmakers and friends from the music industry would also be there to create awareness on cholera.

“Our focus would be to create awareness on the prevention of cholera and also to let people know it has a

cure. This whole thing is about maintaining good hygienic lifestyles and nothing more,” Joselyn explained.

The actress called for public support to create awareness on how to prevent cholera.

I’ve corrected my marital mistakes — Iyabo Ojo Sultry actress and mother of two, Iyabo Ojo is no doubt enjoying her best moments as an actress in the movie industry, especially in the Yoruba speaking movies. The actress who believes she has been able to handle her new marital life better than the former revealed that she now enjoys her new marriage because she has grown older and enjoys so much of affection and understanding from this husband now. Iyabo said she could not have asked for a better marriage than what she’s currently enjoying.

ADVERTISEMENT Speaking with R at the one year anniversary of her Fespris beauty and spa in Lagos last Sunday, the actress admitted that her first marriage crashed because of her immaturity, but was quick to add that she had since grown up to correct mistakes that led to the break up.

Elated Iyabo explained further that she had to walk out of her first marriage because it was becoming something that could affect the future of her children and career. “It was not an easy decision but I had to take it because it was getting to a point that I was not finding fulfillment in the marriage, so I had to move on with my life.”

The crossover actress who got married to her first husband at 21 years-old said she never knew what marriage entailed

when she embraced it at first and it was difficult for her to handle it very well. Though, she said it took her a few years before finally falling in love again, she, however, disclosed that the decision has not only turned out to be a blessing to her family but also to her acting career.

“I went through a lot before falling in love again. I had to wait because I wanted to be sure it was the right move. My kids are growing up and I don’t want to tell them stories that touch the heart. My man has been a blessing to us all. I am happy that I made the right decision.

My career is on point and you can see what I have done in the last two years. Those things would not have been successful if my man didn’t stand by me”, she said.

Speaking on the success of Fespris world, Iyabo said her dream has come true in the last one year and would not relent in making sure her spa business grows bigger. “It started as a mini-mart and later I discovered I could make it bigger. I have always loved fashion and beauty, so when the opportunity to explore came, I embraced it”.

At the event on Sunday were popular faces in the Yoruba speaking movies such as Doris Simon, Ronke Odusanya, Eniola Badmus, Yomi Fash-Lanso, Mistura among others.

(Source; Nollywood stars news.com)

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THE NEW MOTO X IS THE BEST ANDROID SMARTPHONE EVER MADE

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otorola's Moto X smartphone will delight you something you don't say about smartphones too often. When was the last time you were truly delighted by your smartphone?

I mean, when was the last time your smartphone did something so surprising that you smiled? Or you discovered

a feature and actually thought, "Okay that was awesome?"

It's been a while, right? That's because today, most smartphones are exactly the same. They are all lightning-fast. They all have great screens. They all have the same apps. They all have good cameras. They all have 4G connections. They're all easy to use. Heck, they all pretty much look the same.

That's what makes the new Moto X so wonderful-it's not just another smartphone. It's your smartphone. You can make the Moto X fit your needs.

Do you want your phone to be quiet during meetings and automatically respond with a custom text? You can do that. Or maybe you want it to automatically detect when you're driving and read your texts aloud? It'll do that if you want it to.

You can even set your Moto X to detect when you're home

and then announce who's calling when your phone rings. That means you can leave your phone charging on the kitchen counter and you don't have to get up from your comfortable living room chair when your phone rings if you're screening your calls.

And the Moto X will look exactly the way you want too.

With Motorola's online Moto Maker tool, you can mix and match any number of combinations of colours and materials.

You want leather back and a white screen? How about your laser-etched signature on a sea-foam green back with a black front? Or maybe you want your phone to be made out of wood.

All those options are available with the new Moto X. My favourite Moto X feature lets you set a unique name for your phone. Mine is "munchkin," which is some crazy name my two-year old niece suggested. (Why not?) So I just yell "munchkin," and my phone will do whatever I tell it to. It's fantastic while driving-I don't need to touch anything. Beyond letting you customize it, the Moto X also comes with a handful of smart extra features.

When you take the phone out of your pocket, your phone will display the time-you don't have to hit any buttons. When you get a call, just wave at your phone to silence it. To snap a photo, just shake your phone-even if it's locked. And when you get a notification, you can tap your phone to get a quick glance at who's trying to bug you.

Other phones have better cameras (the Moto X's is fine but not outstanding like the Samsung Galaxy S5, Microsoft Lumia or the Apple iPhone. Other phones have better speakers the Moto X's are loud and clear, but no one beats the HTC M8.

There are better sized phones to the Moto X's 5.2-inch screen is a bit too big for my puny hands.

But other than the iPhone, the Moto X is the only phone that will delight you on a consistent basis.

That's why the Moto X is the best Android smartphone ever made.

LASER PROJECTORS PROMISE TO DELIVER BRIGHTER 3D FILMS

This week for the first time ever a cinema audience watched a laser-projected 3D movie at the same brightness as they would have seen the 2D version.

Christie's new, 6P digital light projection system may cost 10 times more than traditional 2D projectors, but it sports one projector for each eye.

Recent box office figures indicate that audiences in theatres preferred to see the 3D version of a movie back in 2009, but now favour 2D. The new system aims to make the 3D

experience brighter, crisper and clearer.

Christie also claims the new system is more comfortable to watch because it has got rid of the polarisation used in 99% of 3D cinema systems.

The old technique involved using a single projector to beam two rapidly alternating video streams, each captured at a slightly different perspective to the action.

Polarisation filters in the 3D glasses worn by the viewer then separated the streams so that each eye saw a different one, delivering a sense of depth.

But a side-effect of this method was that the film appeared darker than it would do in 2D. By contrast, the new system uses two projectors to send the separate images at the same time, allowing both versions to be brighter before they are separated by a new type of glasses. An added benefit is that there appears to be fewer flickers.

Rather than using polarisation to separate the images, the new system depends on lasers that use different mixes of light wavelengths to create each colour seen on screen. Each of the glasses' two lenses is customised to only allow the wavelengths shown by either one or the other projector through.

Thus each eye gets a full projector's worth of light at the same time.

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(A look at some of the stories that made the news ‘back-in-the-day’ with CLIFFORD STANLEY)

BOY KILLED

BY LADDER (Daily Chronicle January 3, 1973)

A six-year-old boy died on his way to hospital while his seven –year-old cousin was admitted to the Georgetown Hospital in a critical condition shortly after a ladder fell on them.

Reports state that Rohan Jagdeo and Cecil Mangru 7 of Better Hope were playing near a ladder which was left leaning against a house in the district when it fell on them.

Cecil is nursing multiple injuries and his condition was described as still serious by a hospital spokesman.

CHAMBER OPENS DOORS TO SMALL MAN (Guyana Graphic January 7, 1973)

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce at a special general meeting on Thursday amended its constitution to provide for a new category of Associate Member paving the way for admission to the Chamber of corner drugstores, business agencies and small industrial establishments, all paying special subscription rates.

But while Associate members will be afforded the same rights and privileges as other members with respect to protection, representation and the liberty to raise issues affecting the interest of commerce and industry they will not be allowed to vote or serve on the Council, a release from the Chamber said yesterday.

This new move of extending membership to the smaller man in the business community is another effort by the Chamber to genuinely serve both the Guyanese nation and the business community in a more effective way and is within the Object of the Chamber’s Ordinance of Incorporation, the release said.

The Chamber will ensure that the new category of members will maintain the continued high moral and ethical standards displayed by other members and in this regard will take rigid disciplinary action to ensure compliance with respect to rules and regular business ethics.

GO-CARTS (Daily Chronicle January 7, 1973)

The new craze: Go-carts . You push it from behind and I steer it with my feet and if I tilt over I don’t have far to go to reach the ground. Top speed is also well within the safety limits. Those are the good points about the home-made Go Carts boys are operating nowadays. They say they make it themselves.

a modern milk room.

The construction of a 40 by 60-foot poultry pen, the extension to the diary shed and the acquisition of new laboratory equipment will also be part of the school’s developmental program for 1973.

The crop farm of the school will also acquire a $9,000 precision planter for the expansion of the farm.

A new tool shed will also be constructed on a self-help basis by students of the school.

The cafeteria of the school will also come in for expansion and renovation with the introduction of up to date equipment to the value of $10,000.

TIGER MENACE (Daily Chronicle January 9th 1973)

Tigers are reported to be creating havoc at Black Bush Polder and cattle farmers are calling on the Police to shoot the ferocious beasts which are killing their cattle.

One farmer, who lost four calves to the big cats about a week ago, said other cattle owners in the area were suffering similar losses.

NEW MINZING ASSOCIATION FORMED; (Daily Chronicle January 5th 1973)

Some three thousand tributers and miners in the mining areas throughout Guyana will be represented by a new Association formed recently.

The Guyana Association of Traders and Tributers has as Chairman of the Steering Committee Mr. C.V.Lampkin .

Other members include Mr. R. Lampkin , Mr. D. George, Mr. S.A.Wade, R. Savory and Mr. K. Bancroft, M.P. The Association aims among other things to to arrange a program of development for mining communities.

Within this plan the mining areas will benefit from improved housing facilities, water supply, recreational facilities, schools and other social amenities.

The Association plans to ask the Government for representation on Public Corporation Boards and further to be represented on the Assistance to Miners Scheme which was formed by the Ministry of Mines and Forests earlier this year.

A draft constitution has been drawn up and is to be ratified by weekend.

GSA EXPANDING IN 1973 (Daily Chronicle January 9th 1973)

The construction of a $90,000 Plant Science building at the Guyana School of Agriculture at Mon Repos East Coast Demerara will be among a number of developmental works to be undertaken this year.

Other projects to be undertaken will include the establishment of a Slaughter House with modern equipment, the extension to the Administrative building and the setting up of

AN EVENING WITH SLADE HOPKINSON (Guiana Graphic January 3, 1973)

Chase Manhattan Bank is sponsoring today a one-man stage production by Slade Hopkinson one of Guyana’s artists of the theatre.

“An evening with Slade Hopkinson “will be seen at the Theatre Guild and later this week at some of the chief educational institutions in Georgetown.

The evening will offer a varied theatrical experience.

The presentation will consist of three parts: characterizations of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes, readings from Slade Hopkinson’s poetry, and dramatisations from West Indian fictions.

Slade Hopkinson was born in New Amsterdam Guyana.

He has lived and worked in Guyana, all over the West Indies and the United States.

He had his first experience as an actor when he was still a schoolboy at Harrison College, Barbados.

He played Brutus in a production of “Julius Caesar” and received reviews that expressed astonishment that so mature a performance could have been given by a seventeen-year-old boy.

Since then he has acted with the University Players and the West Indian players in Jamaica, Yale University Drama School and the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in the United States , the Theatre Guild in Guyana and the Caribbean Theatre Guild in Trinidad.

During his years in Jamaica he helped to make a considerable critical reputation for both the University Players and the West Indian Players performing the lead and directing a production of “King Lear” and playing the lead in his own poetic drama: ”The onliest fisherman.”

(Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at (cliffantony@gmail.com or cell phone # 694 0913)

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Nereid’s International Yacht rally officially welcomed to Guyana

The Ministry of Tourism and Hurakabra River Resort held an official welcome reception on Thursday September 11, at the Resort in the Essequibo River for the 9 yachts and 22 sailors which had begun to arrive in Guyana since September 7 from Trinidad & Tobago, participating in the Nereid’s International Yacht Rally.

Director of the GTA, Indranauth Haralsingh, welcomed all participants to Guyana on behalf of the Government and the Ministry.

Owner of Hurakabra River Resort, Kit Nascimento, speaking on behalf of himself and wife and co-owner, Gem Madhoo-Nascimento, welcomed the second Rally and congratulated the coordinator of the Rally, David Matelicani, for having significantly increased the yachts participating in the Rally. Nascimento extended his thanks to Banks DIH Ltd. for their sponsorship and I-Net Communications Inc. for providing additional network bandwidth to accommodate the Rally.

Three yachts scheduled to participate, owing to last minute repairs, were unfortunately unable to make the sail.

Mr. Matelicani disclosed that he was committed and had begun negotiations with the government to build a Marina and Boatyard with all haul-out facilities that, if all goes well, should begin operations early in 2016 and possibly before.

Matelicani expressed the view that Guyana, outside of the hurricane belt, is an ideal yachting destination for yachts from both the Caribbean and those crossing the Atlantic to South America and are on their way up to the Caribbean. He said he looks forward with anticipation, in the not too distant future, to the Essequibo River becoming a major yachting destination in comparison with any in the Caribbean.

He pointed out that yachting tourism is a multi-million dollar business creating substantial

employment for skilled labour in yachting maintenance and repairs and as a major foreign exchange earner for the country.

The Captain of Orion 1, John Fesel, speaking on behalf of all the sailors, expressed his appreciation for the tremendous welcome extended to the yachts, the remarkable hospitality and service extended from the Customs and Immigration, Coast Guard and Police and remarked on the exceptional kindness and hospitality received by all of the yachtsman from the people in Bartica.

He also congratulated the Nascimentos’ on the wonderful Resort and their generous hospitality.

During the next three days they were taken on a tour by Regional Chairman of Bartica, Gordon Bradford, to Kyk-overal, Baracara Falls, Marshall Falls and given a full experience

of the Amerindian Heritage Day at the village of Karrau..

On Sunday, many Guyanese who attended the Hurakabra Beach party, got an opportunity to visit and enjoy the hospitality of the yachts or experience a sail on one of them. For many, it was their first time on board such a vessel and deemed it as ‘thrilling’ or ‘educational’, seeing the lifestyle of a yachtsman.

Many games were organised by the Guyana Tourism Authority staff and some were team cruisers versus Guyanese.

The yachters emerged winners in the tug of war game against Guyana. It was a great time for them to mix and mingle in a very casual and fun atmosphere.

A number of the yachters immensely enjoyed a visit to the majestic Kaieteur Falls which they described as ‘magnificently unspoilt and natural’.

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Results from cognitive tests show 30% of 80-year-olds perform as well as young adults.

Your brain is about 2% of your total body weight but uses 20% of your body's energy.

The energy used by the brain is enough to light a 25 watt bulb.

More electrical impulses are generated in one day by a single human brain than by all the telephones in the world.

How much does human brain think? 70,000 is the number of thoughts that it is estimated the human brain produces on an average day.

After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.

Albert Einsteins brain weighed 1,230 grams (2.71 lbs), significantly less than the human average of 1,300g to 1,400g (3 lbs).

Each year Americans consume 50 billion aspirin tablets or 15.5 million tons.

89.06 is the percentage of people who report normally writing with their right hand, 10.6% with their left and 0.34% with either hand.

The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.

The slowest speed at which information travels between neurons is 416 km/h or 260 mph,

that’s as "slow" as todays supercar's top speed (the Bugatti) 10 seconds is the amount of time until unconsciousness after the loss of blood supply to the brain.

Time until reflex loss after loss of blood supply to the brain is 40-110 seconds.

During early pregnancy the rate of neuron growth is 250,000 neurons a minute.

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DENZEL WASHINGTON (Jr)

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-The most Oscar-winning (two) and most nominated (five) black actor/actress in Academy history.

enzel Hayes Wa s h i n g ton Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was the middle of three children of a

beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel, Sr., from Virginia.

After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University intent on a career in journalism.

However, he caught the acting bug while appearing in student drama productions and, upon graduation, he moved to San Francisco and enrolled at the American Conservatory Theatre.

He left A.C.T. after only

one year to seek work as an actor. His first paid acting role was in a summer stock theatre stage production in St. Mary's City, Maryland.

The play was "Wings of the Morning," which is about the founding of the colony of Maryland (now the state of Maryland) and the early days of the Maryland colonial assembly (a legislative body). He played the part of a real historical character, Mathias Da Sousa, although much of the dialogue was created. Afterwards he began to pursue screen roles in earnest. With his acting versatility and powerful sexual presence, he had no difficulty finding work in numerous television productions. He made his first big screen appearance in Carbon Copy (1981) with George Segal. Through the 1980s, he worked in both movies and television and was chosen for the plum

Denzil Washington (jr) role of Dr. Philip Chandler in NBC's hit medical series St. Elsewhere (1982), a role that he would play for six years. In 1989, his film career began to take precedence when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Tripp, the runaway slave in Edward Zwick's powerful historical masterpiece Glory (1989).

Through the 1990s, Denzel co-starred in such big budget productions as The Pelican Brief (1993), Philadelphia (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), The Preacher's Wife (1996) and Courage Under Fire (1996), a role for which he was paid $10 million. His work in critical-

ly-acclaimed films continued simultaneously, with roles in Malcolm X (1992) and The Hurricane (1999) garnering him Oscar nominations for Best Actor, before he finally won that statuette in 2002 for his lead role in Training Day (2001). He continued to define his onscreen persona as the tough, no-nonsense hero through the 2000s in films like Inside Man (2006), The Book of Eli (2010), The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) and Safe House (2012). Cerebral and meticulous in his film work, he made his debut as a director with Antwone Fisher (2002); he also directed The Great Debaters (2007). During this same time period, he also took on the role of producer for such films as The Book of Eli (2010) and Safe House (2012).

He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Pauletta Washington, and their four children.

Often portrays real people: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in The Hurricane (1999), Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992), Herman Boone in Remember the Titans (2000), Frank Lucas in American Gangster (2007), Steve Biko in Cry Freedom (1987) and Melvin Tolson in The Great Debaters (2007).

Frequently plays military commanders and law enforcement officers In almost all the films - e.g. Man on Fire (2004), American Gangster (2007), John Q (2002) - where he handles or uses side arms (usually a 9mm Beretta or similar pistols), there's a scene of him swiftly ejecting a bullet from the loaded chamber by pulling back the slide assembly and subsequently catching the bullet before it falls to the ground.

Fiery anger driven tirades Frequently works with directors Spike Lee and Tony Scott Frequently works with director Edward Zwick Chosen by Empire maga-

zine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#77) (1995).

Son, Malcolm, was named in honour of Malcolm X. To prepare for his role as boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter in The Hurricane (1999), Washington worked out for a year with Los Angeles boxing trainer Terry Claybon.

Received his Bachelor's degree in Journalism from Fordham University in New York City.

1996 Harvard Foundation Award In a Newsweek cover story about the biological basis of the perception of beauty, he was used as a key example in a scientific explanation why he is considered an extremely handsome man.

Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1990).

According to a 1995 Premiere magazine article, Denzel confronted director Quentin Tarantino when he visited the set of Crimson Tide (1995). Quentin had done an uncredited rewrite of the script. Denzel lambasted Tarantino about his use of racial slurs in his films.

Tarantino got embarrassed and wanted to move the conversation to a more private area. Denzel said, "No, if we're going to discuss it, let's discuss it now." Denzel later said he still felt that Quentin was "a fine artist."

Denzel is named after his father who was in turn named after the doctor, Doctor Denzel, who had delivered him.

In the early 1980s, years before he portrayed Malcolm X in the Spike Lee film Malcolm X (1992), Washington portrayed Malcolm in the off-Broadway production of "When the Chickens Came Home to Roost," at the Henry Street Theatre in New York City.

Frequent collaborator of Spike Lee.

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ANDRE MARIE AMPERE- The “amp,� the unit for measuring electrical current, is named after him

A mathematical child prodigy self-educated according to the principles of Rousseau, Andre Ampere established his scientific significance after a fit of inspiration in September and October of 1820, when he developed the science of electrodynamics. Both Ampere’s Law, which established the mathematical relationship between electricity and magnetism, and the ampere, or amp, a unit for measuring electrical current, were named after him. Though Ampere maintained wide-ranging interests in mathematics, chemistry, metaphysics, philosophy and religion, his main source of fame derived from his work with electricity and magnetism.

Ampere was b o r n i n Ly o n , France, on January 22, 1775, to Jean-Jacques Ampere, an independent merchant who provided his son with a complete library, and Jeanne Desutieres-Sarcey Ampere, a devout Catholic who instilled her faith in her son. Ampere spent the rest of his life reconciling his reason with his faith.

His personal life amounted to a series of disasters, Andre Marie Ampere starting with the execution by guillotine of his father on November 23, 1793, in the midst of the French Revolution. Tragedy took a respite during his relationship with Julie Carron, whom he courted against all odds and married on August 7, 1799. Tragedy revisited him when she died on July 13, 1803, of an illness contracted during the birth of their son, Jean-Jacques, on August 12, 1800. Ampere then entered into an ill-advised marriage to Jeanne Potot on August 1, 1806. The only positive outcome of

the wedding was the birth of his daughter, Albine.

Though Ampere did not hold a degree, he taught mathematics at the Lyceum in Lyon before his appointment as a professor of physics and chemistry at the ecole centrale in Bourg-en-Bresse in February 1802. In 1808 Napoleon appointed him inspector-general of the new university system, a post Ampere held until death. In 1820 the University of Paris hired him as an assistant professor of astronomy, and in August 1824 the College de France appointed him as the chair of the experimental physics department.

In early September 1820 Francois Arago reported to the Academie des Sciences on the discovery by Danish physicist Hans Christian 0orsted that a magnetic needle deflected when current in nearby wires varied, thus establishing a connection between electricity and magnetism.

In less than a month, Ampere presented three papers to the Academie that established the science of electrodynamics by positing that magnetism was simply electricity in motion. Specifically, Ampere worked with two parallel wires with electrical current flowing through them: he discovered that the currents attracted each other when heading in the same direction and repelled one another when traveling in opposite directions. The implications of his experiments suggested a whole new theory of matter.

Ampere published a comprehensive overview of his findings in 1827 in his Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience. The scientific community did not embrace his theories until Wilhelm Weber incorporated them into his theory of electromagnetism later in the century.

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DENZEL WASHINGTON (Jr) From page XVIII

Named one of E!'s "top 20 entertainers of 2001".

Supports charities such as the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, and the Gathering Place (an AIDS hospice).

Met his wife Pauletta Washington in 1977 when both had small roles in the television movie Wilma (1977) (she was billed as Pauletta Pearson), the story of runner Wilma Rudolph. They wed five years later.

His father was a Pentecostal minister; his mother a beautician and former gospel singer. They divorced when he was 14.

Is a spokesperson for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, having been a member of the Boys Club once himself.

Only the second black actor (after Sidney Poitier) to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (for Training Day (2001)).

Poitier received the honorary Academy Award that same year.

Named by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World

(2002).

Ranked #28 in Premiere magazine's 2003 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #40 in 2002.

Cousin is newsman Ukee Washington, who co-anchors the news on the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia.

He and his family are members of the same church as actors Dwayne Winstead, Sy Richardson, Marvin Wright-Bey and Fitz Houston.

Was awarded the title of "Police Chief for a Day" when he was a member of The Boys and Girls Club of America as a child. The photo was shown during his latest appearance on Live with Kelly and Michael (1988).

Tom Hanks said working with Washington on Philadelphia (1993) was like "going to film school". Hanks said he learned more about acting by watching Denzel than from anyone else.

He was at his mother's beauty parlor, when a woman getting her hair done saw him and told someone to get her a piece of paper and she wrote at the top "Prophecy" and then wrote

that Denzel would grow up and one day speak to millions. Denzel kept the bit of paper in his wallet.

The woman was known as a prophetess in their church and community.

Cites star-athletes like Jim Brown and Gale Sayers as the role models of his youth.

First studied Biology in hopes of becoming a doctor, then switched to Political Science then to a Journalism/ Drama major in college.

Has worn some kind of military uniform in at least six of his films.

Ranked #59 on VH1's 100 Hottest Hotties P re m i e re m a g a z i n e ranked him as #39 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).

Chosen as People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive (1996).

Is the first African-American actor to receive two Academy Awards.

Has played two soldiers who have suffered traumatic, life-changing experiences while fighting in the 1991 Persian Gulf War: Lt. Colonel

Nathaniel Serling in Courage Under Fire (1996) and Major Ben Marco in The Manchurian Candidate (2004).

Though his first theatrical film was a comedy (Carbon Copy (1981)), he has only done three more since. Has mentioned that he's always wanted to do a great one.

He and his family visited the troops at Brook Army

Medical Centre, in San Antonio, Texas (BAMC).

There are some buildings there called Fisher Houses.

The Fisher House is a Hotel where soldiers' families can stay, for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying in the Hospital.

BAMC has quite a few of these houses on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled most of the

time. He was given a tour of one of the Fisher Houses and subsequent to his visit sent them one of the largest donations they've ever received.

Is the second of three children.

As of 2006, he is the most Oscar-winning (two) and most nominated (five) black actor/actress in Academy history.

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Understanding…from a teen’s point of view!

By Vishani Ragobeer

* Global Warming

Hello! How was your past week? Well I do hope it was quite productive! This week I’ll be talking to you all about a very critical problem in our society- “Global Warming.”

Global warming is something we all know about, it is the rise in the temperature of the earth’s surface, caused by the greenhouse effect, which is caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs- harmful substances such as aerosol, etc.), and other pollutants.

I believe that Global Warming is a very big problem, because if the statistics I’ve seen are correct (and it most probably is!), by the year 2050 our living conditions will be significantly decreased! Do you guys have a clue what that means? It means: A VERY HOT EARTH (and let’s be honest,

Guyana is already very hot!). MORE DISEASES! RAISE IN SEA LEVELS! MORE FREQUENT NATURAL DISASTERS! Let’s be realistic now.

If this continues at this rate, life on earth just won’t be the same! It’s time we co-operatively resolve to combat these changes! I know we are just small in number but we can join forces and make a change! Guyana is already home to 25% of the world’s undisturbed forests! While I love the fact that our little Guyana is receiving recognition because of this fact, don’t you think

that if a small country as our Guyana has 25% of the world’s undisturbed forests, why can’t the world’s other leading countries have an equal amount of undisturbed forests?

Now, I propose that we all try to do something to help this problem. No, I’m not saying we go to a richer country and start picketing or we start breaking down buildings to plant trees, because to be honest, we all love a little bit of luxury.

However, I propose that we start small, take baby steps and then spread our wings; we can start by not littering and using APPROPRIATE garbage disposal practices, planting a few trees or even small plants here and there and we can try to

recycle certain products. Also, we can help our very own, Miss Stacy Ramcharran- reigning Miss Guyana Earth in her frequent clean up campaigns of Georgetown; all information about these campaigns can be found on her Facebook page.

So think about this, try doing some of these things or find your own things that can help this problem and tell your friends and family also so that everyone can help combat this problem!

Quote of the week: (by Dr. Seuss, in the book/movie, “The Lorax.”)

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not” (This quote is with reference to trees and their importance.)

See you again next week, right here on the best newspaper in Guyana! Good- bye!

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Airy Hall

An attractive village but somewhat marred by differences among residents

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By Alex Wayne

e have travelled near and far, high and low in our treks as we explore Guyana.

And we have brought you week after week the exciting tales and amusing stories of our many outstanding villages.

Now it was our turn to visit Airy Hall on the East Coast of Demerara but what we found there was very surprising.

You see folks with every other village we have visited, there were either high levels of harmony, great camaraderie and a seemingly mutual understanding amongst the residents.

But at Airy Hall we were shocked to find that in several sections of the village residents were either attempting to throttle each other, or just were not speaking to each other for one reason or the other.

While Airy Hall is indeed a very attractive small village, there is certainly need for residents to come together as one and cease the segregation for the sake of the village’s development.

That aside, there were quite a few positives in the village which will unfold as the tale of Airy Hall continues.

Welcome to the quaint little village of Airy Hall

Location Airy Hall is an estate in Region 5 (Mahaica/Berbice). It is located at an elevation of 1 metre above sea level.

Its coordinates are 6°34'0" N and 57°46'0" E in DMS (Degrees Minutes Seconds) or 6.56667 and -57.7667 (in decimal degrees). Its UTM position is VH12 and its Joint Operation Graphics reference is NB21-06.

The sun rises in this village, most times at 08:43 hours and sets at 20:50 hours (America/Guyana UTC/GMT-4). The standard time zone for Airy Hall is UTC/GMT-4 Touching down We rolled into Airy Hall just as noisy mothers were readying the little ones for school and it was quite amusing to watch the little banter as mothers yelled, and in some cases dealt a few lashes on kids that were either moving too slow, or failing to carry out little chores they are expected to complete before leaving for school.

In several places young men were seated by the street

corner chatting about something or the other and their loud, raucous sudden outbursts of laughter caused one to look up in disapproving dismay.

Cattle and sheep grazed lazily in wide open pastures enjoying the royalties of being able to choose from several juicy grass and plant species. Except for the occasional bustle of young boys clambering over a catch of fish from the many small ponds, the village was otherwise quiet.

We were definitely fooled as we thought that this quiet still that loomed over the village meant things were bright and beautiful. We were in no way ready or prepared for the rivalry and contentions that was flaring so brightly amongst residents as we began our interviews.

Challenges Well the village seems to be faring well save for at least three issues that are bothering villagers.

Seamstress and designer, Estaleen February and a large group of other women said that from time to time they are plagued with the plight of ‘having no water’ even though there is an artesian well in the neighbouring village of Dundee, according to the rambling ladies, This situation fluctuates as sometimes they are able to get potable water while at other times they have to travel outside the village to obtain the precious, life-saving liquid.

They said that they were not at any time given an explanation by the relevant authorities as to why there was the periodical water shortages which forced them to travel three miles away to Central Mahaicony more than once to get their fill of water.

According to Ms. February this water problem has been an ongoing problem in the village.

Then there is the issue of garbage since there is no waste management entity operating in the village. Over the years villagers have been known to burn their garbage but lately a new problem has sprung up and is angering residents.

According to one resident Culburn Abel, outsiders are now sneaking into the village when residents are asleep and dumping mounds of refuse along the main irrigation canal dam.

This dam is close to the Atlantic Ocean so the strong wind blowing in from the seas, carries the pungent scent of rotting garbage into the homes and nostrils of residents.

Village Gossip Of all the villages we have visited, it is Airy Hall that offered the most amusement and in some cases unpleasant surprise when we heard the tales coming from the lips of some inhabitants.

Now, every village has its little ‘tiffs and disagreements’ here and there and we have grown accustomed to that. But readers, Airy Hall seems to have topped our list for disagreements, segregation and animosity among those that live there.

Stopping to chat at many houses we were aghast at the

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comments made by individuals about their neighbours.

In some cases, some persons even tried to prevent us from interviewing the other neighbour, mouthing unsavoury remarks like: “Don’t talk to she. She too inquisitive.” “Who dem people dah... dem evil don’t talk to them.”

At one point we were the target of a very ‘steamy cuss out’ from the Abel family as we attempted to take photos of garbage in an empty lot next to their home. Well we had no idea that one of the women that was taking us through the village ‘had a beef’ with the Abel’s, so the moment I began flashing the camera a woman came out and launched a verbal attack all laced with obscenities.

Quickly we exited their domain but the woman in our company somehow got angry and turning back gave the Abels a good ‘buse out’ that certainly left them smouldering.

In little time young boys gathered giggling and housewives gathered all ready to ‘pick up fire rage’ as they would say in the countryside.

As we tried to console the woman in our party she went into a surging tirade on the makings of Airy Hall.

“This village is a small garden with bittah weeds. De people hea living like crabs in a barrel. Every time yuh try to do something positive, dem just sitting around and criticising.

Dem ah talk name whole day, and some ah dem ready fuh cuss you out for no reason at all.”

When the uproar simmered, housewife Malene Braithwaite related that there was an ongoing family feud between the Abels and another woman who lives across the street from them. It so happened that the daughter of that woman was in our company as we were taking the photos and this caused the outburst.

As rumours would have it, the woman across the road was living for several years with a male who fathered several of the Abel clan. He recently died and villagers said they are trying their best to get the woman and a few siblings out of the home and off of the land the deceased left behind. This topic was on the lips of every villager.

on the lucrative poultry farming. Wives were no longer just sitting at home and waiting for their spouses to bring in that pay cheque.

No way, instead they were up and running around cleaning chicken pens, mixing feed and smiling as they cut chicken necks and readied them for plucking. We were lucky to catch retired nurse, Jacqueline Anderson in action and marvelled at the pride and joy on her face. She must have been thinking about the incoming dividends her plucked chickens will bring after sale in and around the village.

And Ms. Anderson was very warm and pleasant and talked a little about her new profession.

“Well I am retired now and I have served the society well during my years as a nurse. I am at home now and bored most times so not so long ago I decided to invest in some chickens.

I soon became deeply connected to my birds and watched them grow with pride. It pains my heart sometimes to cut their necks and remove feathers. But if I don’t then they would certainly grow old on me, and besides... They do bring in an extra dollar.”

And Ms. Anderson who is personally known to me is an excellent cook, and she did not hesitate to serve up a steaming plate of her popular red beans cook-up rice with deep fried

Retired nurse, Jacqueline Anderson has made positive contributions towards the village over the years trout. Her salad was divine and the fresh lime juice did wonders for the parched throat.

Some persons work as teachers in schools located in villages like Novar, Calcutta, Burma, Belladrum, Central Mahaicony and other locations. And just a sprinkling of young men try their hands at pork-knocking in the interior regions. There are also a few seamstresses, tailors, carpenters and masons.

Those that are seen liming around the village are actually seasonal workers who become gainfully employed during the rice harvesting period.

Entertainment Basking in the shady greenery of the countryside

Livelihood Now that we have survived those unpleasant moments, let’s focus a little on the means of existence and survival of residents in Airy Hall.

Farming is done on an extensive scale in this village, and while kitchen gardens were present in several yards, there are farmers who cultivate cash crops on a much more extensive basis in the back lands.

And it appeared as if almost everyone was cashing in

There is little or no entertainment scope in this small village and so villagers have two choices on means of enjoying their leisure time.

They either sit down and ‘tek ah tupps’ at the Bairoop Liquor Store or they stroll down to the only entertainment hideout, the ‘Snowflakes Bar’ owned by a businessman referred to as ‘Mr. Baker.’

This bar features some very attractive Amerindian waitresses and as such the young men flock the joint on weekends and even during the week. Others will travel to Belladrum where they can have a real party at the Co-co-co-Banna Nightclub.

Other than that the celebration of weddings, birthdays and

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Dangerous Turn Another issue of concern among villagers was the very sharp turn in the Airy Hall Public Road which they are dubbing as very dangerous and risky.

Over the years many vehicular accidents have occurred at this location, many times involving speeding drivers on an unfamiliar route.

Villagers are calling for speed humps to be placed across the road in this location and road signs to be erected to warn drivers to decrease their pace and also of impeding danger.

In February last year the latest accident occurred at this turn in the road where a teenager was struck on the road parapet and hurled into a trench by a speeding army officer. The child was killed on the spot.

The community of Airy Hall, still remains in mourning over the death of 13-year old Troy Fraser, who was killed by a speeding car driven by an allegedly Guyana Defence Force Officer.

Villagers still sit in small groups discussing the manner in which the teenager’s life was snuffed out and lamenting the wanton disregard for the law on the part of someone who they said should have known better.

Some villagers are saying that the army officer and three of his friends were engaged in a drag race when he lost control of his Toyota Carina and slammed into Fraser.

The mother of the deceased child, Yvette Fraser, still weeps with the memory of her son’s sudden passing.

Airy Hall before time...

Many years gone by, Airy Hall was just a smattering of houses and overgrown sprawling pastures. There were only two grocery shops in the village, the more popular being the Muriel Da Silva’s Grocery and Variety Shop.

At this outlet housewives and young girls flocked daily for kitchen supplies or to sample her tasty ‘cool down’ (chilled fruit juices in plastic bags) or to bite into delicious buns, cream cakes, fudges, cookies and coconut biscuits.

Young boys would gather in the afternoons there to play marbles. They created quite a noisy raucous but Aunt Muriel never minded since they were making steady purchases.

Today this joint has been turned into a clothing and accessories shop and is manned by resident Estaleen February.

‘Aunty Muriel’ has grown old now, but her jolly memories live on in the minds of all those she came into contact with.

The village cries out for recreational and entertainment opportunities.

Villagers are lamenting the fact that their playground is not in tip-top shape and are requesting that authorities build them a community centre.

Some female roadside vendors are of the opinion that the maintenance of the pleasant playfield should be a ‘village effort.’ One vendor opined that villagers should come together and get involved in ‘self -help’ projects to clean up the compound. She also felt that they should promote concerts and other entertainment ventures to raise funds to build their own community centre and keep it in ‘tip-top’ shape.

That aside, villagers are appealing to donors to provide sporting gears and other forms of assistance as they intend to reform their once thriving and popular Circle Tennis Club.

Airy Hall in times gone by had produced one of the most vibrant circle tennis teams on the East Coast of Demerara, and was always successful at defending their titles.

Several conversations with youths in the village revealed that they are longing for someone to take up the mantle of spearheading cultural activities in the village. At present at least one public spirited individual is holding sessions to raise the bar on football in the village.

Infrastructure could do with some sprucing up The Airy Hall dam that allows the ‘Waterside Residents’ traverse to and from the public road is not in the best of shape.

Soil erosion and other factors have destroyed a few areas of the dam, which some years ago, was in excellent condition.

While large trucks using this dam add to its continuous destruction, cattle farmers in the village are also responsible for its deterioration, since they use this dam as a daily route to get their animals to the pastures some distance away from the village.

There are still several side streets, especially in the Waterside Area that have not been paved and villagers do not take nicely to this, raving that all the streets in other nearby villages have been completed.

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The lone church in the village

Sultry coconut palms add a serene lustre to the village

The single gas station in the village

Posh houses are springing up around the village

Visitor Bob Hytmiah makes ready to purchase a suit created by designer, Estaleen February

Youths liming by the roadside

Educational Defects Morals have dropped considerably and school dropouts seem to be on the increase in the village.

Speaking on the issue which greatly seemed to trouble him, villager, Culburn Abel expressed his heartfelt hope that the newly erected technical institute at Park Village, Mahaicony would help to resolve the issue.

This institution offers students opportunities to develop and foster their vocational and technical skills with the intent to make them better and more educated individuals.

Transportation Several years ago, hire cars were indeed the main form of transportation in Airy Hall. Villagers were more prone and seemed more comfortable with the environs of a hire car, than the minibuses which also ply the roads continuously.

Today those cars have disappeared and villagers have to now depend on the very mini buses they avoided and sometimes the wait can be very lengthy, since most of these buses now ply the Georgetown to Berbice route.

Some villagers would normally use bicycles for short distances and even a few motor cycles are still around. And guess what? Some of the youths are really getting smart and are moving around on roller shoes which they claim is a more exciting form of transport.

The start of the day at Airy Hall The village begins to awaken sometime around 04:30 hours to the sound of fishermen chattering noisily as they ride their rusty bicycles to the various canals and trenches for their predicted daily catch of ‘bush fish.’

These fishermen, however, are from neighbouring villages of Recess, Good Faith, Dundee, Novar and even Huntley, all predominantly inhabited by people of East Indian ancestry.

The clink of metal milk cans clanging against the metal of bicycles can also be heard as cattle farmers undertake their early morning journey to the savannah and back lands to extract milk from the animals for sale to many nearby villages.

As the first streak of sunlight breaks from amongst billowing clouds the village comes to life with the happy chatter of residents and bustling activity as everyone tries to get errands done

Their Folklore On Emancipation Day every year, villagers would don African wear and would sing, dance and engage in great festivity in the streets.

Some elderly folks in the village reflected on nights of story-telling around campfires, picnics in the woods or savannahs, and of course the traditional yearly Soiree event at which great masses congregate for a night of sizzling activity where they ‘connect with their roots.’

There are quite a few single-parent mothers in the village, but what was notable is that these mothers are not waiting around for the irresponsible fathers to ‘come up with the cash’ but instead have found jobs.

Today several stately buildings have sprung up in the village and a few more grocery and household supplies entities. The village now is far more attractive and much more comfortable to live in.

With a little cleaning up and proper infrastructure maintenance, Airy Hall can soon evolve as one of the villages in Guyana that have moved from primitive to high class modernisation and unique development.

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This cake shop now in ruins once offered the best cakes and mauby to villagers

An attractive section of the village

Designer Estaleen February displays some of her creations

Poultry farmers in the village continue to extend their chicken pens in anticipation of booming sales

Villagers congregate on weekends to enjoy a ‘little tupps’ as they catch up on ‘countryside gaff’

Some make an honest dollar by operating their minibuses in and outside the village

Wide open pastures are appealing highlights in the village

Fishermen bring fresh fish to the doors of housewives who eagerly await their arrival

The Airy Hall Nursery School

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Famous Quotes from Vladimir Lenin “Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. Despair While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State. “

Vladmir lenin

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

“They [capitalists] will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in their countries and, by supplying us materials and technical equipment which we lack, will restore our military industry necessary for our future attacks against our suppliers. To put it in other words, they will work on the preparation of their own suicide.”

“All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.”

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After 50 years of being a diplomat par excellence…

Former Foreign Affairs Minister Rudy Insanally now relaxes

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By Telesha Ramnarine FTER serving as a distinguished diplomat for over 50 years, spending most of this time in a foreign country, returning to Guyana intermittently, at 78 years old, he is still sharp as a sword. He is relaxing and “enjoying a bit of

old age,” which of course he fully deserves.

Meet the brilliant, successful, down-to-earth, and easyto-love Samuel Rudolph Insanally, well-known as just Rudy Insanally. He returned to Guyana definitively in 2001 and served as Foreign Affairs Minister until 2008 when he became weighed down with health issues. Since then, he has kept a low profile.

Mr. Insanally was accompanied to this interview at the Guyana Chronicle a few days ago by his lovely wife of 30 years, Bonita. She is employed with him on a full time basis.

She joked and seems to be enjoying the job quite a lot.

Describing her husband, Mrs. Insanally said though many people may see his serious exterior, Mr. Insanally likes to laugh and make jokes and moreover, enjoys dancing.

“I’ve never met anyone that didn’t like him,” she proudly disclosed. We believe these are some reasons she enjoys ‘working’ with her husband on a full time basis.

Mr. Insanally grew up in Georgetown, at Kitty, and lived quite a few places, including Mr. Samuel Rudolph Kingston and Alberttown, be‘Rudy’ Insanally fore leaving Guyana in 1954.

His early education was done largely at Christ Church. After spending one year at Central High School, he obtained a scholarship for Queen’s College (QC), then one to the University of the West Indies (UWI), and then another to France.

He taught French and Spanish for some time in Jamaica and did research work at UWI in Haitian Creole, but when he was in France, he realised that Guyana was becoming an independent nation and thought to himself that maybe he should get into something like international relations. And this he did.

Explaining further how he got into the diplomatic service, Mr. Insanally recalled that once when he was coming home to visit his dear mother, he had a conversation with former President Cheddi Jagan on Guyana’s becoming independent.

“Afterwards I got bored in Jamaica and I said I might as well come back. I started teaching at QC for a short while and they then opened the university so I transferred there and taught there for several years. “ “It was an interesting period but when I came back the big strike was on. I think it was in 1963 so a poor student arriving in the country to find that he can’t work; it was very off-putting but I did work at the university until after all the travails and the hiccups,” he recalled.

When Guyana gained its independence, he was sent for training in Canada and the United Nations and afterwards was posted simultaneously to Washington and Canada. At one point, he was appointed Charge’d’ Affaires in Caracas, Venezuela and was later transferred to the Permanent Mission of Guyana to the UN where, as Deputy Permanent Representative, he was active in the negotiations for the Second Development Decade Strategy.

He was also posted as Permanent Representative to the European Economic Community in Brussels where he served as Ambassador to Belgium and on a non-resident basis to Austria, Norway and Sweden.

From 1994 to 2001, he served as Chancellor of the University of Guyana. Mr. Insanally has written and lectured widely on the subject of diplomacy and international relations in general. He recently launched his second book titled: ‘Dancing Between the Raindrops: A Dispatch from a Small State Diplomat.’

A flair for languages Growing up, Mr. Insanally had no clue of what he wanted to become, in terms of career choice. “But I found I had a flair

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Chronicle Pepperpot September 21, 2014 From page XXXVI for languages. I loved being around people to talk and I did languages before going into international relations.

By then I knew that I wanted to be a diplomat.

“I couldn’t be a diplomat before because we weren’t independent. I could have gone to work in the UN but it wasn’t so easy in those days.

So that’s when I decided. It was a love for languages and I liked the atmosphere when I went to travel and we had the border issues on our hands.

I always felt I could solve them for the government overnight. So it was a matter of time. It just turned out that way but I have not regretted it,” he expressed.

But 50 years isn’t exactly a short space of time and so Mr. Insanally at times felt overwhelmed as if he wanted to quit and do something else. “I used to tell myself that I am so fed up with this job that I would willingly accept a job cleaning floors just to do something different and meaningful. But I enjoyed it.

I don’t want to conceal that.

I enjoyed it.”

Unassuming Mr. Insanally does not believe that he is better than

anyone, and hence does his best to maintain friendships and be the same to all. “I pride myself in being one in the crowd. I don’t try to set myself apart. It’s dangerous in the diplomatic life. It’s not easy to make friends when you’re like that.”

One of his policies is to keep the doors of communication open. “I remember when we were not talking to South Africa. I was never allowed to speak to the Ambassador. But he was a human being and I used to say hello and it was a good thing because although the black government came into power, they kept him on and so I had to deal with him,” he recalled.

This served as a lesson to him that it is futile to play great with others. “I feel that one should not encourage resentment,” he said.

Mr. Insanally also gives the ‘Widow’s Might’ whenever he can. “I believe in helping people who can’t help themselves,” he said, adding that he loves to support a good cause. Hence, even when he cannot make it personally to an event, he would ensure that he sends someone on his behalf.

“We have to find something to occupy ourselves.

With his wife Bonita and daughter Amanda.

Making a presentation in Parliament when he was Foreign Affairs Minister.

I believe that life is just a distraction from death. Life is short. Death is infinity so I think we should make the least amount of trouble while we are alive and do the best we can. I have to confess I’m a perfectionist. I like to know that what comes out is the best possible. So I work on it to achieve that. But I don’t let it show,” he said.

Mr. Insanally disclosed that his greatest achievement is having a daughter and wife like the ones he has. He is very proud of his daughter Amanda, in Boston currently, who is doing a doctorate in clinical psychology.

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President Donald Ramotar is happy to receive a copy of Mr. Insanally’s ‘Dancing Between the Raindrops.’

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Aries - You’re about to begin mingling with all kinds of interesting and unusual people, and you’ll love every minute of it. There’s at least one new acquaintance en route who’ll be around for a while, too, thanks to an astrological setup that will keep that parade of people you’d otherwise never have met going strong. Whether they turn out to be friends or partners is up for grabs, but who cares? Think of this as a social buffet.

Treat yourself to just a little taste of everything.

Taurus - That new -- and quite authoritative -- person you’ve met is probably quite well outfitted at this point, from head to toe. They’ll enjoy spending money, but if you want to keep up, better check the balance on your credit cards -- and balance your cheque book. If you can’t quite keep up, don’t try. There are better ways to impress them, but even if you end up doing some serious damage to your plastic, think of it as a lesson.

Gemini - Whether it feels comfortable to you or not -- and initially, at least, it probably won’t -- you’re going to be at centre stage for a couple of days, and maybe longer. Better accept it, and try to get your sweetheart used to the idea, too, because if they’re in the vicinity, they may also find the spotlight trained on them. Of course, there are definitely worse things than being worshipped by a crowd of admirers. Looks like you’ll both just have to buck up and smile pretty.

Cancer - Your way with words is famous. It’s so famous, in fact, that you can keep company with just about anyone you want to, whenever you want to. That fact will go double right now, so do yourself a favour. Don’t waste this energy. Gabbing with just about everyone is what you’re famous for, but save the best for that certain someone who actually responds to your wit with some pretty keen comments of their own.

Leo - If anyone is usually quite sure of what, how and when they want to do what they want to do, it’s you. At the moment, however, you’re torn between being good (preparing yourself for tomorrow and going to bed early) and being bad -- which would basically entail staying up as late as you like and forgetting about anything but tonight. The final decision, of course, rests with your conscience, but with the right two-legged companion, the right movie and a big bowl of popcorn, there won’t be a contest.

Virgo - It’s indisputable that you have a way with words -- a gift for presenting logical, practical arguments that are awfully hard to disagree with. That talent will come through for you beautifully now, as always, especially at work, and especially if you add just a touch of charm to the mix when you’re chatting with coworkers. After all, you know what they say about bees and honey. Buzz...

Libra - If you’re still thinking about travel, today’s astrological line up will make it just about impossible for you to resist any longer. Make the decision. You don’t even have to decide exactly where you’re going -- not just yet. All you really have to do, at this point, is to inform the powers that be that you’ll need some time off. Once that’s done, it will make the situation real and put you in the mood to choose your destination. Oh, go ahead.

Scorpio - You’ve been thinking about letting a certain person know just how much you care -- in fact, you’ve been thinking about doing that for some time now. You’re right on the verge of having a ‘state of the relationship’ meeting to tell them how you feel. Well, what’s the holdup?

You know they feel the same and you know they’ll be delighted to hear it. You’ve even got the perfect heavenly envoy on duty, right now: The lovely lady Venus is on your side. What could be better?

Sagittarius - It’s over -- temporarily, at least. That work binge you were on has finally come to an end. That’s not to say that you won’t be putting in your time and continuing to do what’s necessary to keep your head above water and your reputation on the job intact -- but you may also suddenly find that you need to make time for your siblings and neighbours. Reintroduce yourself to them, and rest assured that you’ll receive an extremely warm reception.

Capricorn - You’re busy, as usual -- that, of course, is nothing new; it’s something you’ve become used to. Just for the moment, though, why not devote some time to pure, unadulterated fun? That’s after you’re done with your work for the day, and this includes not just your usual chores, but also something your darling has managed to either forget to do or put off until later.

Aquarius - You’ve always been the objective type, far more prone toward facts and figures than anything that even remotely resembles nostalgia. At the moment, however, you’re feeling like a regular tissue commercial -- and not at all shy about spouting phrases you would have made fun of not too long ago. It all comes down to just one thing: That love is, indeed, grand, and that you’re not afraid to express it.

Pisces - The universe has officially granted you ‘off duty’ status. Your compassion knows no bounds, but you’ve done absolutely everything you can for the ones you love. It’s time now for them to take care of themselves -- and for you to stop feeling guilty about not being able to do more. Besides, there’s someone out there who could do with a bit more of your time and attention -- not to mention your company, in private.

How about it?

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INDOOR GARDENING

By Clifford Stanley

Many people think of gardening or horticulture as an activity done with best results outdoors.

There are however just as many who think that doing it indoors is equally rewarding.

Greenness has long since been an integral part of the interior of homes and offices and through houseplants one can provide a bit of nature into the home.

House plants can also be a source of vitality by purifying the air, creating a pleasant atmosphere and relieving stress.

But not all plants will be able to put up with an interior environment and so it is necessary to know the right type of plant for this type of gardening.

Some plants which have been identified as suitable for indoor gardening and are available locally, are the Butterfly or Areca Palm, the Scindapsus , the Sansevieria, the , chlorophytum comosum or spider plant and the gerbera daisy.

Areca Palm, it is said, is the best plant for your living room. It is ideal humidifier for air, removes carbon dioxide and toxins from the air The scindapsus or devil’s ivy is also unique in this respect.

A study done a few years ago by an American scientist B.C Wolverton found that scindapsus is one of the top

10 plants for indoors air purification.

Wolverton’s findings on scindapsus were published in a book titled “How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office” .

He found that Scindapsus absorbs absorb harmful particles from the air and transports them through the stems to its roots.

The veins in the leaves also break down the harmful compounds into non-harmful

compounds that even serve as nutrients for both the plant and the micro-organisms.

Sansevieria or Mother in Law’s tongue, it is said, is especially suitable for your bedroom.

Although most plants at night need oxygen the Sansevieria does exactly the opposite – it provides additional oxygen to the sleeper.

The Chlorophytum comosum, also known as the Spider Plant and the Gerbera Daisy

are some other popular plants which thrive indoors and also provide similar services.

Pictures: Some plants for indoor gardening; Available from Internet.

A re c a P a l m , t h e Scindapsus , the Sansevieria, the , Chlorophytum Comosum or Spider plant and the Gerbera Daisy.

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Lamar Odom & Khloe Kardashian: He Wants Her Back & To Have A Baby Khloe Kardashian and French Montana have broken up — and Lamar Odom seems to be VERY happy about it! A source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY that Lamar would do ‘everything’ differently if Khloe ever took him back.

Lamar Odom, 34, still hopes that his complicated relationship with Khloe Kardashian, 30, will end with happiness and children. A source reveals to HollywoodLife. com how Lamar is ready to “be a husband to Khloe and give her the family she has always wanted.”

Lamar Odom: Hopes For Reunion & A Baby With Khloe Kardashian Now that Khloe and French Montana, 29, are over, it looks like Lamar is hoping to reunite with Koko.

Khloe Kardashian Still Loves Lamar Odom: Open To Reconciliation “He lets her know that he’s there. That door will always be opened for Khloe and she knows that,” a source tells HollywoodLife.com about Lamar’s open feelings for Khloe. If Khloe reconciled with Lamar, our source says he’s prepared to be a different man.

“He thinks it’s their destiny to have a family,” our source says.

– Written by Megan Ross, Reporting by Eric Ray

Beyoncé & Jay Z’s Commitment Ceremony Amid Split Rumours Following split rumours which have dogged them ever since the ‘elevator incident’ back in May, a new report claims that Beyoncé and Jay Z renewed their vows in a special commitment ceremony during her 33rd birthday celebration in France. Is the couple stronger than ever?

‘Dancing With The Stars’ kicked off Season 19 on Sept. 15, and the new cast brought their A-game to the ballroom, especially Alfonso Ribeiro — and he didn’t even do ‘The Carlton’! The ‘Fresh Prince’ actor was so shockingly impressive that I think he might just win it all!

Alfonso Ribeiro is paired with Witney Carson on Dancing With The Stars Season 19, and the hot new duo is at the front of the pack, along with other frontrunners Mark Ballas and Sadie Robertson, plus Val Chmerkovskiy and Janel Parrish. Click to WATCH Alfonso‘s jive from the premiere!

‘Dancing With The Stars': Premiere: Alfonso Ribeiro Stuns With Jive Who knew that Carlton had such great dance moves…besides “The Carlton!?”

Alfonso Ribeiro, 42, who rose to fame with Will Smith on ’90s hit The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, is already rising the ranks on Season 19 of Dancing With The Stars, kicking off the premiere with the highest score of the night.

Alfonso and his pro partner, Witney, 20, earned the top score of 36, and even resident tough guy, judge Len Goodman praised his talents: “A beautiful routine.

That was, without question, the best dance of the night!”

New judge Julianne Hough and Bruno Tonioli also gave him positive critique. Bruno said, “The Prince of Bel-Air? You’re the King of the night!”

Here are my top 3. Do you think

Alfonso will win it all? Vote!

Alfonso & WitneyJanel & ValSadie & Mark I totally agree with the judges.

It’s so neat that Alfonso is the sur-

prise celebrity standout of the season. I knew that he had his signature move, but I expected him to rely on his Fresh Prince jig and to woo over America with his goofiness and charm — not his downright talent! An added bonus? The actor did show off his funny side, faking out viewers by starting to do the “Carlton” and then shaking his head before the cameras cut to his actual routine, which was a stunning jive.

Personality plus technique? Sounds like the perfect mix for the mirror ball!

Backstage at rehearsal, Alfonso told Witney that his main goal is to lose weight and she bounced back, saying that her main motive is to win! And you know what? I think they just might!

‘Falling Skies’: Security Guard Tragically Killed On TNT Set Tragedy has struck the Vancouver set of TNT drama ‘Falling Skies.’ An as-yet-unnamed security guard was killed during a terrible accident on Sept. 15.

A security guard was tragically killed on the evening of Sept. 15 on the Vancouver set of Falling Skies, TNT’s critically acclaimed sci-fi drama. The victim — who has not been named at the time of this writing — was killed by “an unattended truck that rolled down a slope,” reports The Hollywood Reporter.

So sad.

‘Falling Skies': Security Guard Dead During On-Set Accident: Crushed By A Truck In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, WorkSafeBC spokesman Scott McCloy revealed that the accident happened at around 8:30 p.m. on Monday in Burnaby, the suburb of Vancouver where the drama was

being filmed.

The victim had been hired to conduct security, and was standing nearby a 5-ton truck with its tailgate down in order to facilitate off-loading. The truck, unattended, “rolled backwards down the slope and caught the deceased worker between the tailgate and a tree.” So scary.

As the local police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigate the fatal workplace inci-

Beyonce just celebrated her 33rd birthday on Sept. 4 where she, Jay Z, baby Blue Ivy and the rest of their family spent some quality time together on the beaches of Corsica, France. The family was photographed looking happier than ever, and it seems we may have the reason why — according to a new report, Bey and Jay renewed their vows during Beyonce’s birthday celebration.

Beyonce & Jay Z’s Commitment Ceremony: Couple Renews Vows During Her Birthday “They were joined on a private beach by Beyoncé’s mum Tina, their daughter Blue Ivy and a small group of close friends and recited a new set of vows during a short but very romantic ceremony, which doubled up as a birthday celebration,” a source revealed to Grazia magazine, as reported

by Express.

“The small wedding party celebrated with drinks and food made by the couple’s private chef. Afterwards, they rented a

dent, filming has been halted on Falling Skies‘ fifth and final season.

luxury $500,000 a yacht to cruise around Italy, which they have been calling their second honeymoon.”

Beyonce: Is She Pregnant With her Second Child?

It seems as if Bey and Jay are looking to put all the negativity surrounding and within their marriage to rest — “From now on, they intend to mark the day of the ceremony as their new wedding anniversary,” Grazie‘s source continued, “and have told friends they are focusing firmly on their future together.”

Their recommitment to their marriage only makes sense considering the fact that Beyoncé juuust might be pregnant. At their Paris concert on Sept. 12, Jay changed the lyrics in “Beach Is Better” from “I replace it with another one” to “pregnant with another one.”

Either Bey is pregnant, or those two love playing with their fans’ minds! – Amanda Mitchell(Source:Hollywood. com)