Congrats Ball.

Thank you Sir Gil duly noted

Well well well, here I am gonna change things a bit.

I'm gonna give an answer, y'all give the question.

 

The answer is...Yes.  

Is you a  putagee man

1/2 correct...you didn't use the ?..making it a question.

Ok sir.

Are you half and half or pure putagee?

Our theme today is EDUCATION.

Who was the first Guyanese Principal of Queen's College?

Doodnauth Hetram

 

Dr. Allsopp

No. Don't try again.

Yes. Doodnauth Hetram was Principal of Queen's College from 1963 to 1969. He was the first Guyanese to hold that post.

Congrats, Riya!!

ok but a Kaieteur News reunion of QC said it was Dr. Allsoop followed by Mr. Hetram..I guess they have to get their article correct

Dr Allsopp was the Acting Principal before Hetram. Technically he was not a confirmed principal because he was acting but he was doing the job of principal.

There was also the unveiling of three portraits—Clarence Trotz, Stanley Richard Reginald Allsopp and Doodnauth Hetram—all of them former Principal of the school. Dr Allsopp was the first Guyanese to serve as principal of the school. He was followed by Hetram.
The reunion continues today with a Day Trip to the Skeldon Factory, and a Tuck Shop Lime on the lawns of the QC compound.
Tomorrow there is a scheduled tour of the Diamond Estate, swimming, a buffet lunch and karaoke and games.

 

courtesy of Stabroek News.

 

last part of the article.

The Guiana Scholarship was established in 1881 and was offered annually. It originally provided for three of the brightest students under 20 years old to study 3-5 years for free at a university or college in the UK, Europe, USA or Canada, with free return passage too. In 1894 the first black student won the Guiana Scholarship. From 1908 onward the scholarship was awarded to only one eligible student in the entire colony.

Name the first East Indian who won that scholarship and the year he won it.

THE LATE Mr. Doodnauth Hetram, M.A., B.C.L., L.L.B.,Dip.Ed., the first Guyanese ever to be appointed Principal of Queen’s College (1963-1969). Mr. Hetram served as a Q.C. master from 1952 to 1963.

Another Great QC Master  - THE late Mr. M.T. Lowe, B.S.c., P.G.C.E., the first Queen's College “old student” to become Principal (Headmaster) of our alma mater (serving from 1971 to 1974). MT also taught at Q.C. in 1952 and from 1957 to 1971.

 

* GNI's antabanta aka Bhai Balgobin Persaud(1916).

 

* Damn! anta old.

 

Rev

Stabroek News got it wrong. More than one source named Doodnauth Hetram.

For example, The Queen's College of Guyana Alumni Association [Toronto] newsletter The Scribbler says: "Mr. Doodnauth Hetram, M.A., B.C.L.,
L.L.B.,Dip.Ed., the first Guyanese ever to be appointed
Principal of Queen’s College (1963-1969)."

S. Jaikarran in 1923

ok agreed that sn got it wrong, on worries

Samuel Jaikarran

1923

The immediate QC Principal before Doodnauth Hetram was V.J.Sanger-Davies.

No. Try again.

Try again too.

ok N.E. Cameron 1921

Rev, I owe you an apology. The page on my PC changed and I just saw your answer.

Yes, you are correct.

Balgobin Persaud of Golden Grove, ECD, won the Guiana Scholarship in 1916 and pursued his studies in the University of Cambridge.

Congrats, bright boy!!

We already have a winner and he is the Devil himself.

ATTENTION RIYA

QUIT YOUR SEARCH STOP WINNER STOP REV STOP

 

Thanks for the telegraph (that was a telegraph, right?)

 

I was getting carried way reading about the Jaikarran family and other brilliant Indians.

TELEGRAM STOP NOT TELEGRAPH STOP DON'T LAUGH STOP

Here's one for you all:

 

Which QC headmaster was nick named 'The One Arm Bandit'.

I knew it didn't sound right in my head. see? No laughing, just smile

Scholarship trivia:

Forbes Burnham won the Guiana Scholarship in 1942.

Happy Guyanese May Day to all.

Today's starter: An Englishman wrote a novel 138 years ago about a tragic triangular love affair among East Indian indentured immigrants in British Guiana. What is the title of that novel and who is the author?

Evelyn Waugh book named "A Handful of Dust"

No. Waugh's book was written in the 1930s, much later than the one we're looking for. Try again.

In Guyana Wilds by J. Rodway

Oh no. That's a wild guess. Another try.