OLD Kai had to look twice at a media report on Wednesday, which focused on the cross-examination of witness, Joseph Hamilton, a former leader in the House of Israel and PNC/R Member of Parliament, by PNC lead counsel, Basil Williams during the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry.

Mr. Hamilton had earlier made some shocking revelations, where he detailed the relationship between the House of Israel and the PNC dictatorship at the time. Several witnesses have so far testified that the House of Israel was used as a terrorist arm of the PNC to attack, disrupt and harm opposition members during that era. This has been strenuously denied by the PNC leadership, including Presidential Candidate of the PNC and leader of APNU, Mr. David Granger, who has sought as much as possible to distance himself from that period when he was a senior figure in the GDF, and a close confidante of Dictator Forbes Burnham.
Mr. Granger, during the race to be elected as the Party’s Presidential Candidate for the 2011 elections, had however admitted then that he was a long-serving member of the PNC. That apart, it appears that no one catered for the stunning revelations of Mr. Hamilton, someone who was integrally exposed to the machinations between the PNC and the House of Israel.
Here it was, a first-hand account of the plots, the attacks, why, when and how Father Bernard Darke was assassinated as only two individuals the PNC had instructed the House of Israel not to harm because of the possible repercussions. This was all being denied by the PNC. Startling revelations that current leader of the PNC, Mr. Robert Corbin (Mr. Granger is only the Party’s Presidential Candidate) had given the House of Israel guns was also being denied. The clandestine meetings to plan the attacks were also denied. Every single revelation by witnesses during the ongoing CoI has been denied by the PNC.
At the same time, every single effort has been made by the PNC to attack the credibility of the witnesses, and this came to a head when the media reported that the PNC legal team has now suggested that Mr. Hamilton went from being a ‘priest to a demon’. He has also been accused of committing perjury.
Here is where the effort by the PNC falls apart, as while denying such links with the House of Israel, Mr. Basil Williams is quoted as asking Mr. Hamilton in his cross-examination, as reported by the media, “I am saying that there is no way you could have been a part of those meetings between the hierarchy of these two bodies (PNC/House of Israel), because you were too low down on the ladder.”
The PNC lead counsel has now apparently come full circle, and through his question has now admitted that there was indeed a link between the House of Israel and the PNC, but his only contention is that Mr. Hamilton was “too low down on the ladder” to be part of “those meetings”.
This admission by the PNC’s lead counsel now serves to legitimise the contentions of all the witnesses thus far; he has destroyed his own arguments, and it is left to be seen what will be the next move for the Party after they have been exposed by their very Chairman. Will they continue with him as Lead Counsel, as it is difficult to see how his efforts to undermine the credibility of witnesses and their testimony will be taken seriously, henceforth?
Old Kai is also pondering if Mr. Williams, by his admission of the link between his Party and the House of Israel will be asked to take the stand as a witness along with the others he has now implicated.