GHRA remembers Bishop Randolph George

Jul 21, 2016 News

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has expressed sympathy and condolences on the recent death of Bishop Randolph George. The expressed condolences have been offered to the widow, Mrs Sheila George, their family and the Anglican community.

Bishop George, who was once head of the Anglican Diocese, died on Monday. He was 92.
Although he spent almost the last two decades of his long life in relative privacy, his leadership of civic resistance to oppression in Guyana from the late 1970s to the early 1990s was pivotal and historic.
As one of the first trio of Co-Presidents of the GHRA, Bishop George’s astuteness and wisdom lent dignity and a sense of purpose in challenging the widespread repression of the late ‘70s and ‘80s, the GHRA said in a statement issued yesterday.
“His courageous and unflappable spirit was re-assuring to human rights and political activists in times of tension. Bishop George’s willingness to be the voice of the voiceless was unwavering in an era of rationed newsprint, seized publications, disabled gestofax machines, raided printing enterprises and non-existent private radio or television.”
The GHRA noted that the three notable contributions made by Bishop George to defend human rights violations were rooted in freedom of expression, the independence of the courts and countering abuses generated by the paramountcy of the ruling party.
Bishop George provided leadership in the struggle for free and fair elections. His role in the Guyanese Action for Reform and Democracy (GUARD) consolidated his stature as a trusted national figure whose influence reached well beyond the religious and civic community, without the slightest inclination on his part to seek leadership or the limelight.
“It was predictable after the restoration of democratic space in 1992, for a man for whom social justice was a dimension of his larger religious calling, rather than a political inclination, that Bishop George would have no difficulty slipping away from a prominent role in public life.”

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