Dear Editor,

THE APNU+AFC political meeting in the village of Agricola o Saturday night was a moving memorial to the members of its community who had been slain by the perpetrators of extra-judicial killings in the years 2000 to 2015. The meeting was held at the recently-rehabilitated playfield, and according to one speaker, was the largest community meeting in Georgetown to date for the APNU+AFC coalition.

The crowd of almost 300 residents who turned up were reminded that the village which was purchased by the freed Africans, was once a gated community from which two Mayors who served the City of Georgetown came.

A feature of the night’s proceedings was a photograph of Shaquille Grant, a teenager who had been murdered by rogue cops in September of 2012.

Terrence Wallace, Warren Blue and Jamal Lewis were the policemen charged for the brutal murder. Wallace was set free by a mixed jury, while Blue and Lewis remained fugitives. Blue was subsequently killed in a botched robbery attempt at Montrose, on the East Coast, and Lewis continues to be on-the-run.

Grant was not the only slain villager who was memorialised at the meeting. Accompanied by the sombre tones of John King’s “How Many more Jah”, and in the earshot of the son of a former PPP/C President and Prime Minister, the villagers were also reminded of the murder of boxing coach, Donald Allison.

He was killed in front of the boxing gym he helped set up to keep youths off the streets. Blame for the murder was laid at the feet of Shaheed Roger Khan and the PPP/C-controlled “phantom squad”, an army of contract killers which, according to court documents coming out of the US, were hired to murder opponents of the PPP/C.

Shonette Adams, mother of Shaquille Grant, draped in green and gold was also present in the crowd, which was exhorted to continue what one speaker referred to as the “green- and-gold revolution” started by the Coalition, and to vote solidly for the return of President David Granger and the coalition, so that never again would villages like Agricola would become killing fields of the PPP/C and their phantom gangs.

Regards,
S. Benjamin