Kites buzz Georgetown
Stabroek News
April 13, 2004
Studying kite science at the Everest Ground yesterday (Photo by Jules Gibson)
The skies over Georgetown were a polka-dotted blue canvas yesterday as part of traditional Easter Monday activities.
Above the seawall and the National Park, the buzz began from mid-morning, the kites gradually filling the sky in all shapes and sizes.
Yesterday morning, building contractor and designer, Toolsie Narine of Old Road, Providence was putting the finishing touches to his kite dubbed "Cricket Stadium" inspired by Guyana's bid to host the Cricket World Cup 2007.
The Guyana Indian Heritage Association (GIHA) had a large seven-foot kite with two dolls, one of which was a pandit, while the other wore a sari. It was giving them a bit of trouble to get off the ground.
Meanwhile, Devenand Persaud had a kite he intended to enter in the Vitamalt Kite Competition; it was shaped like a Banks DIH Malta drinks bottle case.
Another interesting kite was designed by Brian Young, Cleveland Mortimer and Brian Narain. This kite took the form of an oblong parachute. One of the designers explained the design was taken off the internet, but the materials bought and put together locally.
Also at the Everest ground was Elizabeth Sunich who entered the Vitamalt competition and won for a four-foot kite that bore a close resemblance to the map of Guyana.
Over at the Softball ground, a few hundred people were spread out around the field. Three young men, Steve Lillie, Ryan and Edward Gas-per from Bel Air Village were attempting to raise a ten-foot kite that had required over 20 feet of silverballi wood.
In the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) ground, Sales and Marketing Manager of Cel*Star Ramsay Ali, whose company was holding a competition, was helping his son with a unique boat-shaped kite.
At that ground, a team from Ace Photo Studio was attempting to get a Chinese dragon kite into the air, but were having some difficulty, not from a lack of breeze but because of a problem with the kite's construction. Taking part in the Cel*star competition was a 14-foot box kite designed by Mishal Juman and emblazoned with "Cel*Star Choice = Freedom". Juman noted the kite took some 45 sheets of kite paper to complete.
Ecusi Lewis was also in that competition with his two-inch kite and a Cel*Star antenna-shaped kite both of which he noted could fly.
All along the seawall beginning at the University of Guyana (UG) access road up to the bandstand it was all about drink stands, and boom boxes.
But a dead cow that had been lying on the road since Saturday meant one stretch was deserted.