Moths: Beauty Concealed in Darkness
08SundayJul 2012 Posted by Rosaliene Bacchus
Growing up in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, I developed a dislike for moths. They were tiny, hairy, grayish-brown insects that destroyed our clothes and feasted on our rice grains and beans. They did their work in secret, in the dark. To keep them away, we placed foul-scented naphthalene mothballs in our chest of drawers, wardrobes, and cupboards.
Imagine my surprise when I learned in school that moths and butterflies belong to the same family called Lepidoptera. Next to the beautiful and brightly colored butterfly, the moth is the ugly cousin. And, as life would have it, the species of ugly cousins outnumber their attractive relatives by almost ten to one.
When I moved to the tropical rainforest region of Northwest Guyana, to teach at the secondary school in Mabaruma, I discovered a whole new world of moths I never knew existed. Up to that time, I had harbored prejudice towards thousands of species of moths based on the noxious behavior of a few. [more]
Guyana Chronicle Board Chairman apologises for racially-themed editorial
Guyana Chronicle Board Chairman apologises for racially-themed editorial
Saturday July 7, 2012 (Demerara Waves)
Chairman of the Board of the Guyana Chronicle Keith Burrowes has expressed shock at a racially-themed editorial carried earlier this week in the state-owned newspaper and says the board may resign en bloc as a result of the “slippage.”
Speaking to Demerara Waves Online News on Saturday, Burrowes said he only learnt of the issue on Friday and in speaking to some other Board members discovered that they felt the same way.
“Personally speaking I don’t tolerate those things at all. The most I can do is apologise and hope it is accepted. I may resign and if my colleagues agree we will do so en bloc,” he said. Continue reading →
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