It wasn’t a resurrection; ‘Hammie’ was just daydreaming –of his ‘thug-in-chief’ days under Burnham

OLD Kai had to read twice an article appearing on the social media which indicated that former ‘strongman’ under the Burnham dictatorship was now trying to relive his glory-days in a new era, and a reality far different from that time when Hamilton Green moved around our country with a small army of personal bodyguards, with a mandate to intimidate and preserve the status quo of oppression.

So as to establish our point about the goodly Mayor of Georgetown, let us quote from the PNC’s ‘X13’ terrorist plan, which was uncovered from Congress Place and which was published extensively in the newspapers in May 1963: “One day during the month of May, 1963, a meeting was held at Congress Place between 11.00am and 2.00pm by the L.F.S. Burnham, Claude Graham and Hamilton Green.
“At the meeting, it was decided to use explosives on all Government buildings, the latter being the Government Ferry Stelling and the Government Produce Depot, Lombard Street. This decision was taken in order to: Put all the Ministries out of compliance; to prevent the sale of foreign goods at the Government Produce Depot, which would bring revenue to the country; to forestall the plans of the Hon. E.M.G. Wilson, who caused the Ferry Boat to operate; to destroy the premises of the Rice Marketing Board, and the entire stock of rice equipment, in order to stall the progress of the rice industry.”
As can be observed today, APNU (the mask of the PNC) is being aided by the AFC to use their combined one-seat majority over the PPP/C in the National Assembly to continue their plan of ‘making Guyana ungovernable.’
They do not need to covertly sabotage our crucial industries and destroy our infrastructure; they can now do so overtly, using the National Assembly to deny all sectors development funds, including Amerindians. Now we can see why they were so critical of funds for the sugar and rice sectors, with threats to cut it, and it was only after hundreds of sugar workers came out to picket that they were forced to backtrack. It is now clear why both the AFC and APNU are so eager, and have publicly articulated plans to close the sugar industry. You can bet your last dollar that they will come up with an excuse to repeat history and try to ‘stall the progress of the rice industry’ also.
But it does not end there. The report continues, “At 6.30pm on the 8th June, 1963, Hamilton Green and Claude Graham gave Hunte explosives in a handag from the stock they had at Clarke & Martin to carry out the mission of destroying the Rice Marketing Board…”
The name that is popping up constantly in this PNC terrorist plan is that of our current Mayor of Georgetown, Hamilton Green, and mention is also made of the deadly ‘chain-gang’ to which we will deal with in another edition.
After all this evidence of the role Hamilton Green and company played to destroy this country, it comes as no surprise that Georgetown has been allowed to deteriorate to such levels under his watch as Mayor. This is a man who became an International Ambassador of Peace some 13 years ago, and travelled to several countries preaching the virtues of peace and love. Now we are informed by Internet news site, iNews, that Mayor Hamilton Green allegedly turned up with his ‘armed bodyguards’ and forcefully took away the ‘keys’ to an M&CC vehicle on the seawalls which was transporting staff of the Council as they were collecting fees for vending at that location.
These are funds which the City badly needs; these are funds which will be ploughed back into ridding the very location of all its refuse after the Easter festivities.
If the actions of Hamilton Green are true, then he needs a serious wakeup call; he is clearly daydreaming that it is the 60s to the 80s when he was popularly referred to as the ‘thug-in-chief’ of the dictator, Forbes Burnham.
This is a different era, and those strong-arm tactics have no place in a democracy! The Guyana Police Force will ultimately decide whether any criminal charges will be pursued against Hammy, but this is not about that. Hamilton Green and his conspirators should have been placed before the International Criminal Court many years ago; he should have been tried for crimes against humanity, based on the evidence of the ‘X13’ files, and historical experiences of victims. It is no wonder the PNC has refused to participate in the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry.

(To be continued)