Hamilton Green wants to know where those tapes are

Oct 31, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor;
Congratulations to the Speaker, Hon, Dr. Barton U.A. Scotland, O.R., CCH, M.P., Staff and artistes who took part in the “Afternoon of Reflection and Celebration of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary” – they deserve our praise.
The group that reenacted the handing over of instruments of Independence did a fair job. However, to give the reenactment some degree of authenticity and interest, it would have been helpful if the actual recordings on the statements by the principle persons, the three speakers; A.P.(Ochro) Alleyne, the Queen’s representative, Duke of Kent, Dr. Cheddi Jagan and Linden F.S. Burnham were used.
Those tapes were available, I know that, up to 1991 when we celebrated the 25th year of Independence; I hope they are still available. I hate to believe what a staff member said to me some years ago; that they were destroyed more than a quarter century ago.
NCN and GINA must say if those tapes are still available and if not, why not, because these tapes are part of our patrimony. This article is being copied to the management of NCN and GINA for a response.
Hamilton Green, OR.

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