Kaieteur News – April 13, 2008
(By Alex Wayne)
While it has been customary that we feature every available centenarian in Guyana, Kaieteur News recently bumped into remarkable 94-year-old Daniel Duncan, who has vowed to attain a century. He told us this intriguing story.
Turning 93 last Thursday, the still jovial Daniel Duncan is still in good health and exudes vitality.
Born on April 10, 1915, in the Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Daniel grew up in that community always ready to defend members of the opposite sex from what he referred to as ‘male predators’.
“I was always a good child and definitely believed in the Creator. I was against men who ill-treated or abused the feminine gender, and did everything in my power to protect them.”
According to Daniel, there was a burning desire within him to rescue women from male torment and abuse, and he did so in many instances, even resorting to overpowering males who were physically and verbally abusive to their spouses or girlfriends.
At school he was the ‘protector of the girls’, pouncing on and demolishing the male students who would customarily pinch the girls, pull their pony tails, or tie them to the benches during classes. This, he said, landed him in many fights and made numerous enemies among his male colleagues. He was not to be deterred by their aggression, and stood firm ground in maintaining his belief that ‘men were supposed to love and cherish their female counterparts’. Read the rest of this entry »
