By Ronald Austin
Bonhomous, witty, intelligent George Stephen Camacho, who died shortly before his 70th birthday, was a Guyanese test cricketer and administrator who distinguished himself in the latter area of activity. In a life devoted mostly to cricket and business, he won the respect and the praise of those with whom he worked and associated in the cricket community and fraternity. The respect and praise accorded Camacho was based on the fact that he acquitted himself with comparative skill and competence.
Stephen Camacho seemed destined to become a great West Indian cricketer. He was a product of what Professor Clem Seecharran has called “muscular learning,” a combination of academic learning and cricket development. It was a system, inherited from the British, which produced some of the most remarkable schoolboy cricketers in Guyana. Though invidious to do so, I wish to refer to such personalities as Bruce Pairaudeau, Horton Dolphin, Rupert Roopnaraine and his brother, “Fishy,” who, incidentally, is still the only schoolboy cricketer to score a triple century in a first-class competition. Steve Camacho was a product of this system, being a student of Saint Stanislaus College, for which institution he made his early foray into the world of cricket in Guyana.
Camacho came from cricket royalty. His grandfather, GC Learmond, had played for the West Indies at the turn of the
