Georgetown: President Donald Ramotar convened the ongoing Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry ( WR COI) in response to a direct request from Ms Patricia Rodney, the Head of State has said.
Ms Rodney resides in the United States of America. She is the widow of the late Dr Walter Rodney who died in a bomb blast outside the Georgetown Camp Street Prisons on June 13, 1980.
President Ramotar said the Commission of Inquiry “is a Presidential Commission”, and debunked criticisms of the Commission from the camp of the People’s National Congress (PNC).
“At no time did we discuss the Commission at any level of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C). This is purely a Presidential Commission. I responded to the heartfelt cry of Ms Rodney, who is advancing in age, and who wants to get some answers,” the President said.
President Ramotar convened the Commission of Inquiry to probe how and why Guyana became host to the major political assassination in the history of the English-speaking Caribbean, after Ms Rodney’s request, he said. “This is not a political issue at all,” he said.
The ongoing hearing now adjourned till June 23.
