Dear Editor,
I am writing in response to the Stabroek News article of March 30, 2008, which reported Prime Minister Samuel Hinds as saying that the Government of Guyana has not acted on a resolution to investigate the death of Dr. Walter Rodney because the family didn’t want to go ahead with it.
I would like to state categorically that no member of the Rodney family based in the US or Barbados has ever communicated to anyone that we did not want a probe into the death of Walter Rodney.
I see this as a blatant and unfortunate misrepresentation of the truth by Prime Minister Sam Hinds and would like this statement to be retracted .
The Rodney family has always maintained that it requires and supports an impartial enquiry conducted by an international team and not one that is solely selected and managed by the Guyanese government.
I do hope that my response will be given the same media attention as the one released by the Prime Minister.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Patricia Rodney
On behalf of the Rodney family
