Some memorable occurrences on October 19 in the calendar

Oct 19, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor;
Wednesday October 19 is a memorable day – it is the date when the final debate between US Presidential Candidates, Hilary Clinton, and Donald Trump will have their final debate leading up to the November 8 elections. Clinton and Trump are said to be the two most unpopular candidates ever in presidential elections in US history.
Hilary has the reputation of being a liar and not acting above board especially with her emails and the source of funding for the Clinton Foundation, while Trump is accused of evading taxes and being a womanizer. The electors will have to decide which one will be better to be commander in chief and to appoint Supreme Court Judges.
October 19 was the date when history was created in Guyana when a head of judiciary, Victor Emanuel Crane, moved from the Court of Appeal in Kingston to the High Court building and sat as a judge to admit his daughter, Maureen, as Barrister at law. I was also sworn in the same day in a joint admission in which Senior Counsel, JT Clarke moved the petition 37 years ago.
Four years later (1983) on this date there was an uprising in Grenada in which the Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop, his companion and fellow minister Jacqueline Creft, other members of the cabinet and innocent civilians were killed by members of the People’s Revolutionary Army. The events of that fateful day would have profound social and political ramifications that resound Grenada even now in 2016.
I am certain all West Indians who are 50 years and older still remember that dreadful day when Bernard Coard who was Bishop’s deputy, and some of his (Coard’s) henchmen placed the Prime Minister under house arrest a week earlier. Some of Bishop’s loyal supporters tried to release him when confusion/riot erupted and shortly after eight persons including the Prime Minister, three other ministers of government and four other staunch supporters were lined up against a wall in Fort Rupert and executed.
Several others were killed on that sad day, events which left a brutal, sad and violent scaron the psyches of Grenadians. Seventeen persons including Coard and army chief Hudson Austin were charged, and most of them were jailed. Bishop seized power with the backing of the New Jewel Movement, in a bloodless coup on March 13, 1979, and four years later he was killed. On the morning of October 25,1983 the US troops invaded the island, ousting the government and taking full control of the country within three days.
Oscar Ramjeet

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