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Another name to be added to Buxton monument
As the names of over 450 murdered Guyanese are being accumulated to be inscribed on the recently commissioned Buxton Monument, the name of slain Agricola teen, Shaquille Grant is expected to be added.
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This was disclosed by the monument’s designer, Barrington Braithwaite, who spoke with Kaieteur News last Tuesday. He said that Grant’s name will be added to the large plaque of already existing names that are currently being put together.
The Buxton Monument was handed over to the Buxton community on August 3 this year as a tribute to persons who died in unexplained circumstances. According to its overseas based Guyanese founder, Morris Wilson, the names of persons who died from 2003 to present day in what he described as extra -judicial killings are expected to be printed on it.
Braithwaite described Grant’s death as another extra-judicial killing. He said that, “There seems to be a curious atmosphere of provocation from state agents which is causing the loss of life in the country and one must think whether this period is done.”
Braithwaite was referring to a period which he said commenced in 2003 when a decline in the value of life had become more evident in Guyana.
From this “curious atmosphere”, Braithwaite said he was unsure whether space should be left on the monument for other casualties since the state of security in the country was on shaky grounds.
At the monument’s handing over ceremony, the founder had told the crowd of spectators that they should recognize the tribute as a signal that the struggle for equality and justice continues. He said that, “the monument should erase from people’s minds the false notion of security in the country.”
At that time, three persons had just lost their lives during Linden’s electricity tariff hike protest, and those names, Morris said, would be added to the monument, having described their deaths as extra-judicial killings.
Shaquille Grant was killed during a police raid in Agricola.
Grant’s name will be among those of Minister Satyadeow ‘Sash’ Sawh, his sister, brother and a security guard who were murdered on April 22, 2006; Shaka Blair who was killed in his home at Buxton and Ronald Waddell who was gunned down execution-style in front of his premises.
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