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May 27, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor,
I’ve perused the Golden Jubilee calendar of festivities. Most troubling to me is no mention is made of Courtney Crum-Ewing. I have my own opinions about the Jubilee and made a decision to boycott all related festivities months ago based on what I see as foot-dragging and unwillingness in solving this crime. It is not my intention to rain on anyone’s parade or stop my fellow Guyanese from enjoying the extra two hours of rum and fun with the extension of the curfew. These are just my humble opinions not canonical gospels. The APNU-AFC coalition rode to victory on the back of Courtney Crum-Ewing and no amount of mis-remembering will change that. He deserves better than this.
The rapid action by the Ministry of Truth in erasing Courtney Crum-Ewing from the narrative of the May 11, 2015 victory is most outrageous. Crum-Ewing left behind three children, a mother, a father, sister, brother, cousins and many friends. Spare them a thought as you revel at Jubilee Park and stumble through the last lap at Jouvert Fete. Spanish philosopher George Santayana made popular the phrase “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” African-American psychologist and Pan-Africanist Amos Wilson re-worked that to read, “those who cannot remember the past will may never get another chance to repeat it.”
Mark Jacobs
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Martyrs like Courtney Crum Ewing and Ronald Waddell are unfortunately casualties of people for whom power has nothing to do with the justice they promised. They were interested when those names and the hope for justice coming to those who orchestrated their assassinations was politically influential. Today, not that it has served its purpose, well, the above letter says it all.
Martin Luther King Junior observed that in the end it is not the bad things done by bad people that will trouble us, it would be the silence of the so called good people while all the bad things were going on. Or words to that effect anyway. Putting this in a Guyana context, I will contend that for those who saw the outcome of the May elections as a first step in repairing the damage that was done to the justice system in Guyana, and addressing the perception that some lives do not matter in this country, today it is not simply the fact that the intellectual authors of those crimes, those murders, those assinations, those larcenies and frauds, being able to arrogantly laugh in their faces. It is the fact that they are empowered to do so because political correctness and oscillating moral and ethical principles have resulted in a clear reneging on the promises that gave people hope that change would affect more than the array of faces attached to power.
“The world will be destroyed not by those who do evil, but by those who watch and do nothing” – Albert Einstein.
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones” – Mark Anthony in ‘Julius Caesar’.