WHENEVER a Guyanese professional of African descent serves his country in the

capacity of his area of expertise, once he rejects the adjuration of any person or body to act in ways out of consonance with his professional ethics and inimical to the general well-being of the nation to satisfy or bolster the nefarious agendas of the president-makers; those who aspire to high office through questionable and even destructive means, and the hate-mongers of this country, that person is reviled and derogated in the basest of ways; with the opposition collective even strategising, as is their wont, to depose him/her from the office he/she holds, with no  holds barred.
Unfortunately, Police Commissioner Henry Greene was one such victim.  One other fact in the Guyanese political dynamics is the fact that many ‘diplomats’ sent to Guyana by their respective countries soon join the bandwagon of the elitists of the cocktail circuit, most opposed to government; some ostensible “do-gooders” who shelter under their various NGOs while promoting the interests of their respective political parties and alliances, drawing funds from many sources for charitable works – funds that instead support the political activists to live in grandeur and elevated lifestyles, and these ‘diplomats’, through the gossip engendered during their social forays then formulate and relay these bits and pieces of rumours into ‘reports’ to their respective governments.
So when Commissioner Greene’s USA visa was revoked, he was mystified at the reason, because he was certainly no criminal and had no underworld connections, except those he had encountered through his job; so he conjectured that it was probably because he ‘troubled the girls’.  Now if troubling girls was a crime almost the entire male gender of the homo sapien species would have been criminals.  The incident–or series of incidents that precipitated rape allegations against him- which was carefully orchestrated by a political collective and their satellite media operatives and NGOs to force the Police Commissioner, to whom they could give no directives, who would certainly never cover up criminal activities generated by any political party, nor collude with anyone to plant drugs on anyone, out of office succeeded beyond their wildest dreams; but it stressed the man’s mother to the extent where she forfeited her life and caused a series of heart episodes in Greene himself.
Always a very careful driver, it is almost certain that it is one such episode that caused his sudden erratic driving that eventually claimed his life and that of an innocent 10-year-old child, as well as caused injuries to several other persons; so indirectly it is the vicious attacks by Guyana’s opposition collective that drove the commissioner out of office which ultimately claimed his life.  There is no doubt that the unrelenting attacks by the opposition cabal against persons in the government or institutions that they cannot control badly affect the health of their victims; and one only has to recall what happened to Mrs. Janet Jagan, who was hounded by this wolf pack so much so that a woman who steadfastly stood by her husband as his body lay in state for days on end got so ill that she was forced to truncate her term in office as President.
Police Commissioner Henry Greene was beloved by many persons, his mother who was grieved at the victimisation of her son to the extent where she lost her life; his wife, his two daughters, both of whom adored their dad and called him “the best dad in the world”, his relatives and friends, children he mentored through various projects – sporting and otherwise; especially through the Scouts movement; and his colleagues – both senior and junior ranks, to whom he gave no quarter in his expectations and demands of professionalism.  His adopted daughter spoke lovingly of a man who did not give up on her, despite the many challenges she presented him as she struggled to come to terms with the vagaries of life, his 10-year-old daughter wanted a last five minutes with her father to let him know how much she loved him, but she has been denied not just five minutes, but the rest of her lifetime with him.
Both former President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo and incumbent President His Excellency Donald Ramotar had always demonstrated absolute faith in his commitment to law enforcement and his professionalism, and he remained steadfast to his professional commitments; and for this he earned an enmity from the opposition cabal that catalysed his professional and physical demise.  PPP presidents have never bent their knees to first-world leaders, nor the local dictators when the well-being and the sovereignty of Guyana came under threat; beginning from Dr. Cheddi Jagan’s freedom fight against the colonials and later the dictatorship, continuing with Dr. Jagan’s ignoring the Draconian terms of the Hoyte/IMF ERP, which froze public servants’ wages to $2,000 per month and restoring bargaining power to the trade unions, and even his retaining the services of many persons the opposition wanted out, including then Police Commissioner Laurie Lewis; then former President Jagdeo’s lone stance against the might of the European Union on the issue of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA); and the many times the opposition-driven warnings, reports and interventions by foreign forces caused threats to Guyana’s investment climate, and even socio-economic and political dislocations, with the LCDS Norway funds being a primary example.
The faith of the Guyana Government in the professionalism of former Police Commissioner Henry Greene was well justified, but he was, for someone who was aware that enemies were conspiring against him, naïve to fall for the temptation of a woman’s allure, a fault shared by most men – even his accusers; actually, some of his accusers have worse character flaws in this context, with some being child molesters, voyeurs, pederasts, even murderers with –directly and/or indirectly blood on their hands; but for his one, very human faux pas he was crucified on the cross of public opinion.
May you rest in peace, Police Commissioner Henry Greene, if the opposition cabal will let you do so at last; for which, with their track record for evil, there is no guarantee.