Dear Editor
With the untimely and unfortunate death of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing during the election campaign period several months ago , the nation can recall City Mayor Hamilton Green announcing his intention to take urgent steps to memorialise the name of the man who became well-known for his solo protests outside the office of the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs.
In fact in addressing a large gathering at the Burnham Basketball Court, Parade Ground where Crum-Ewing’s body was taken for a public viewing, Mayor Green said that Carmichael Street between Middle, Main and New Market Streets would be named the Crum-Ewing block because “his memory and his work must not die.”
Listening to the Mayor then who declared that with the authority vested in him given by citizens, that he would be renaming that square where Courtney stopped, the Courtney Crum-Ewing block so that when, as he put it ‘the Most Honourable Distinguished and all-powerful Former Attorney General, goes to his office he will be going through Courtney’s Block. ,’makes me wonder now whether he has lost interest in the project, seeing that there is a new Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs occupying that office. I think it is sad when our politicians use the misfortune of others to advance their narrow political agendas. Clearly that promise and declaration was just a cheap empty campaign gimmick and now it back to business as usual.
Sincerely
Nadine Jerrick