When I was youngster I worked for about three years at Atkinson Field (now Timehri) which was originally an American base. By the time I got there it had been handed over to our government and was our international airport, but there were still a few Americans about. I remember eating a guava one day, and an American serviceman passing by said to me, “You know that’s a very nutritional fruit you’re eating?”
I was taken aback. Guava was one of those fruits small boys would hunt (I remember raiding my aunts’ trees at Hague) but I was surprised to hear this claim. Probably sensing my skepticism, the American elaborated that he was in the medical field and that, in search of nutrition information,
