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not hands                                                                        like mine these Carib altars knew: nameless and quite forgotten are the gods; and mute, mute and alone, their silent people spend a ring of vacant days, not like more human years, as aged and brown their rivers flow away.

Anthony Drayton (left) and Taffin Khan during a previous encounter. The clash between the two could well determine a new national chess champion. If they play to a draw, and each has the identical number of points, the tie-break system would specify the winner.  
Anthony Drayton (left) and Taffin Khan during a previous encounter. The clash between the two could well determine a new national chess champion. If they play to a draw, and each has the identical number of points, the tie-break system would specify the winner.  

Drayton, Khan evenly placed to win championship

Following the conclusion of the first three rounds of the 2019 National Chess Championship, there are two leaders with the maximum three points (a win = 1 point; a draw = ½ a point; a loss = 0 point).

LUCAS STOCK INDEX
The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 3.53% during the first period of trading in June 2019.  The stocks of six companies were traded, with 157,626 shares changing hands.  There were three Climbers and no Tumblers. The stocks of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) rose 16.05% on the sale of 1,000 shares. The stocks of Caribbean Containers Incorporated (CCI) rose 4.17% on the sale of 90,270 shares. The stocks of Banks DIH (DIH) also rose 1.20% on the sale of 9,064 shares. In the meanwhile, the stocks of Republic Bank Limited (RBL), the Guyana Bank for Trade & Industry (BTI), and the Demerara Tobacco Company (DTC) remained unchanged on the sale of 56,700 shares, 377 shares and 215 shares, respectively. The LSI closed at 556.17.
LUCAS STOCK INDEX The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 3.53% during the first period of trading in June 2019. The stocks of six companies were traded, with 157,626 shares changing hands. There were three Climbers and no Tumblers. The stocks of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) rose 16.05% on the sale of 1,000 shares. The stocks of Caribbean Containers Incorporated (CCI) rose 4.17% on the sale of 90,270 shares. The stocks of Banks DIH (DIH) also rose 1.20% on the sale of 9,064 shares. In the meanwhile, the stocks of Republic Bank Limited (RBL), the Guyana Bank for Trade & Industry (BTI), and the Demerara Tobacco Company (DTC) remained unchanged on the sale of 56,700 shares, 377 shares and 215 shares, respectively. The LSI closed at 556.17.

Lucas stock index

Last Update: 537.22                                                   Movement: 3.53% Current Update: 556.17                                              YTD Movement: 8.02%

Caribbean country people

We make a big pretence in the Caribbean to be this sophisticated person of the world, very much at home in the metropolitan areas to which many of us migrate but in fact we’re country people. 

Unforgettable

The memory of man is astonishing and mysterious. How can one account for the fact that my old Aunt Anna, at the age of 92, could not recall what she had been told an hour before yet could delight one with a most joyfully and meticulously remembered account of a dance she had attended 76 years before, when she was 16, describing exactly the dress she wore that whirled around her ankles as she waltzed and the sip of wine she had from a glass embossed with cupids and the naval officer she danced with whose beard curled precisely so?

LUCAS STOCK INDEX

                           Last Update: 558.05                               Movement: 3.73%                            Current Update: 537.22                         YTD Movement: 4.34% The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) declined 3.73% during the fourth period of trading in May 2019. 

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