DAMON CORRIE SUCCESS

Word has leaked out to a select few local, regional and International media sources that Barbados-born Damon Gerard Corrie (of paternal Trinidadian and maternal Guyanese Amerindian descent) - well known to Barbadians as 'the Snake Man', may soon be well known throughout the Caribbean as 'Barbadiana Jones' - when the full details of what he is calling the "discovery of his lifetime" are revealed.

Corrie has become the first person to identify and compile physical and photographic evidence of an ancient Amerindian culture of skilled stonemasons formerly inhabiting an estimated 200 sq. mile mountanous area of Guyana. Corrie says he has been searching this area over the past decade at his own expense, purely to satisfy his own curiosity initially, but realises now that what he has discovered is too important to keep to himself any longer.

Never far from controversy, Corrie says he was careful to amass as much evidence as possible as he is convinced that his enemies in academic and political circles will not waste any time in launching their usual petty and vitriolic attacks and attempted character-assasination upon him - in order to cast doubt on the veracity of his discoveries.

This solo effort on 36-year-old Corrie's part may prove to be an invaluable contribution to the science of Anthropology, and a vital missing chapter to the pre-Colombian history of Guyana.

Damon Corrie is a member of the Indigenous Caucus of the Organisation of American States (OAS), registered observer at the United Nations Permanent Forum on indigenous Issues (UNPFII); and member of the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) in the United Kingdom.