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What’s with Eusi Kwayana?

Jul 12, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
Can someone say what is happening with Mr. Eusi Kwayana these days?  In Kaieteur News of 10th July he correctly quoted Mr. M. Maxwell and returned on 11th July and apologised for misquoting Mr. Maxwell then blamed the press for mischief.
Mr. Maxwell on 1st July wrote, “Between November 1979 to (sic) Rodney’s death on June 13, 1980, four WPA activists were killed by the Burnhamite-controlled security forces (Ohene Koama on November 18, 1979, Claude Bovell on November 18, 1979 and Edward Dublin on February 29, 1980).”
Mr. Kwayana was correct in saying “four”.  Mr. Maxwell wrote four but only named three.  I observed too, that  Mr. Kwayana said Dr. Walter Rodney referred to the late Rev. Bernard Darke as “the first martyr of the Guyana revolution.”
I am a Catholic and never heard the Catholic Church or Father Darke supporting Dr. Walter Rodney’s armed revolution. My parents advised me that they are unaware of this. Isn’t martyrdom given to someone who died in the struggle for something they believed in?
I thank Mr. Kwayana for explaining the two deaths of 18th November. I was a little confused and if there is another side to the story I’d be happy to hear it. I am now hearing from Mr. Kwayana that the authority pretended not to know Dr. Rodney. I picked up the telephone and called a retired senior police officer who told me that procedurally bodies are officially identified after the authority is sure and to the best of his memory there were reports that two persons were in the car at the time and Dr. Walter Rodney’s brother, Mr. Donald Rodney could not be found the night of the incident.
As an aside, I enjoy reading the letters on Dr. Walter Rodney and Mr. Forbes Burnham. One thing I can say about the O.R. Tambo award dispute is that it has opened up vistas into Dr. Walter Rodney and the WPA’s politics I never knew before. Continue to keep up the good work. You are the number one newspaper for enlightenment.
Mark Anthony

 

 

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