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Dec 19, 2018 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
I know the history of the career of Henry Greene. Greene was one of the most corrupt policemen ever to wear a uniform in any country of the world. I have a friend, Dexter Vanveen. He is the cousin of another close friend, sports journalist Rawle Welch. I know how Greene as an inspector back then tried to defraud Dexter of his car. Ask Dexter or Rawle what happened.
Green should never have climbed in the police force to reach the status of its chief commissioner. The US advised President Jagdeo not to confirm him, but Jagdeo could not have taken the advice, because Greene had sensitive information on huge figures in the PPP Government. Any journalist during that time would know who bankrolled Henry Greene. The value of his estate has been made public because family members are in litigation. How did Greene get so many assets?
When he died, the president was Donald Ramotar. At the church service, Ramotar poured out his heart over Greene. The eulogy painted a corrupt cop as a hero. This is the same Ramotar that writes a letter a week lamenting the loss of democracy in Guyana, a loss Ramotar would deeply understand, because he played no small part in the disappearance of justice.
The publisher of this newspaper, Glenn Lall gave me permission two years ago to quote him, and I did in one of my articles. Glenn told me the instruction to charge him for tax evasion over his and his wife’s vehicles came from Jagdeo. The president at the time was Ramotar.
Vic Puran told me that when the prosecutor left the treason case against husband and wife, Bruce and Carol-Ann Munroe and their friend, Len Wharton, President Ramotar asked him to take the case. I could remember the morning so vividly.
It was in Tiger Bay, outside Foreman shoe repair store that was being dismantled, and Puran was supervising the demolition. I was going to German’s Restaurant and I stopped and talked to Puran, whom I knew since we were teenagers and became friends as UG students. I told Puran the evidence against the trio was weak and nonsensical and he should not have taken the case.
Here are the words of Ramotar on October 13, 2018, in one of his never-ending missives to the newspapers. “However, one of the greatest achievements was the freedom which all our people enjoyed. No one was ever afraid to speak their minds. People criticized without looking over their shoulders to see who was listening.” That is the opposite to what took place in Guyana when Ramotar was president. In another column I will describe just how the trio came to be charged for treason. Someone was listening to a casual conversation by the trio over food and drinks. Ramotar’s putrid, demented hypocrisy has no limits.
Ramotar is at it again. Last Saturday, he showered praise on Ronald Gajraj who died on that day. Here are his sentiments; “He was a very dedicated man who made a tremendous contribution to this country, particularly in the area of crime fighting….Some of the people, who were supposed to be fighting crime, we see where they are now, and this confirms that the criminals had received political support to protect them in Buxton,”
Any journalist who worked on the crime mayhem in Buxton and drug spree in that period would have had to have come into contact with information on Greene. Instead of fighting crime, Greene, that Ramotar lavished praise on, was protecting big criminals. In his plethora of letters in the newspaper, Ramotar will not mention the wicked deeds of Greene, and he will not proffer any comment as to why the United States did not want Greene to be Commissioner of Police. Oh! Sorry! I may be wrong. Ramotar may have a “plausible” explanation.
It will resemble the caricature that then Minister of International Trade, Clement Rohee, offered Guyanese when the US suspended his diplomatic and non-immigrant visas for six months in 2005. Rohee told the media that the Americans were vindictive. They got at him because thirty five years before, he was in a picket line outside the US Embassy in Georgetown demonstrating against the Vietnam War. Nothing since the world began was stupider than what Rohee mouthed off.
The satirical column, “Dem Boys Seh” facetiously refers to Ramotar as “De Donald.” Here is what “De Donald” would say as to why the US didn’t want Greene as Police Commissioner. When the Embassy suspended Rohee’s visas, they saw a photo of Greene in the picket line too, standing next to Rohee. Gajraj and Axel Williams are the subjects of a forthcoming column.
Listen to the man that is throwing Guyanese bright future away
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