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Courtney Crum-Ewing’s murder will be solved before 2020

Mar 31, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
There is an old adage that those who live in glass houses should never throw stones (bricks). It is amusing when some people believe that they have ‘secrets’ for others, not realizing the exposure they create for themselves. Sometimes in Guyana, the notion of secrecy is as disgusting as it is ludicrous. This is so because most Guyanese don’t keep secrets very well or for very lengthy periods. Influencing spirits, whether liquid or otherwise invisible, impulsively cause Guyanese to release their secrets in varying proportions. Circumstances also have the same effects. People always know something about somebody who knows somebody else. There are no real secrets. They all eventually come to light, even decades after the fact. So a person’s perceived secret is no secret at all. Once probed or revealed by confession, inadvertence or coercion, secrets lose their secrecy.
Recently, our standing and former Attorney Generals (AGs) took the spotlight over allegations and counter allegations of threats, accessorizing and misconduct. The situation took a very interesting twist and sudden jolting turn with revelations by the sitting AG than correspondence were recently found somewhere in the former AG’s office that purportedly link the latter to a suspect in the murder of Courtney Crum-Ewing.
Courtney was a dear friend of mine. We were products of the same alma mater and spoke occasionally on a range of matters after his return from Antigua. I discovered that Courtney had matured from when I first knew him during school days, and held strong to certain principles. His sudden execution on March 10, 2015 was indeed stunning and premature. Courtney had insight of some things that may have been the reason for what took place.
Shortly after Crum-Ewing’s murder, the former AG made a vehement public denial of ever knowing Crum-Ewing; much less persons fingered in causing his demise. That statement was a very interesting one. That statement was one that fuelled the ire of Donna Harcourt, Courtney’s mother. Today the former AG’s plea of ignorance is being brought under the spotlight once more. That spotlight is being shone by the current AG, and that spotlight threatens to penetrate the tinted glass house of a former government.
Guyana is a very interesting country, full of mud, bricks and bloodied hands. I believe that Courtney Crum-Ewing’s murder will be solved long before 2020.
Orette Cutting

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