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May 02, 2016 News
– WPA member tells Ramotar
Executive Member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Dr. David Hinds has lashed out at former President Donald Ramotar who recently criticized the Guyana Police Force for the position they took against his former Information Liaison, Kwame McCoy
Ramotar described the police action against McCoy as a racist act.
McCoy, who served as the Information Liaison during the rule of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), was recently hauled before a Magistrate at the Providence Magistrate’s Court to answer three charges related to an alleged March 2011 attack.
Magistrate Leron Daly granted him bail in the sum of $275,000 after he pleaded not guilty to charges of Damage to Property, Unlawful Assault and Simple Larceny. The first charge alleged that on March 5, 2011 at Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara, McCoy damaged a motor vehicle belonging to social activist Mark Benschop. It was further alleged that on March 5, 2011 at the same location, he stole an Acer laptop valued $120,000, property of Benschop. The final charge alleged that on the same day at the said location, McCoy unlawfully assaulted the social activist.
With the aforementioned in mind, Dr. Hinds said, “I know Mr Ramotar knows the definition of racism; I also know that Mr Ramotar is a learned man; but the fact that he could say something like that is a racist act points to the dysfunction of our politics.”
Dr. Hinds said that McCoy must face the music for what he did. He stressed as well that the act does not constitute racism.
The WPA Executive Member said that Ramotar is simply playing the role of the upholder.
“He is defending the worst acts under his regime. The crooked logic that led the PPP to enlist the services of enforcers is the very same logic that leads Mr Ramotar to spin Kwame’s prosecution as racism. What Mr Ramotar did not know is that he lets the proverbial cat out of the bag when he recently charged that the worst of the so-called harassment of PPP people by the Government is saved for the party’s African-Guyanese activists,” expressed the University Professor.
He added, “Those of us who monitored the PPP’s actions within the African-Guyanese community during that party’s tenure in government are all too familiar with the strategy of recruiting African-Guyanese enforcers who were tasked with keeping the community in line. They did the same in the Indian-Guyanese and Amerindian communities. Gone were the days when the party enforcers were people from outside the communities.”
Hinds opined that the strategy worked at one level, as it ensured that the party and government escaped direct charges of racial discrimination and force. He noted however that if you go into those communities, the people there would explain how they lived in fear of the enforcers, and how they were terrorized and bullied into taking bribes.
“So Mr Ramotar should not be surprised that when the law moves to seek justice for those who were hurt; the accused would be mostly African Guyanese; they were the ones contracted as bullies, enforcers and mercenaries.”
Dr. Hinds said that Ramotar would do the country a better favour if he were to stop thinking that the citizenry is so foolish that in one year it has forgotten the atrocities suffered under his PPP.
The WPA Executive member said that “The upholder is worse than the thief” and the former President should stop being an upholder.
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Kwame Mc Coy was the Information Liaison to the former president Donald Ramotar. This former president should note that he had continued to supressed Guyanese freedom via the likes of Mc Coy and others to the extent that they had no confidence in his administration during his presidency. He should haul himself to a corner and allow genuine progress to unfold, instead of defending all the wrongs that was meted out to us during the PPPC reign of power.
Well said. This is a matter between Kwame and Benchop how could it be racism?