“Full of life” and a “stickler to protocol” is how Commodore Gary Best, Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), remembers former commissioner of police Henry Greene, whose sudden death yesterday morning he described as “shocking and tragic”.
Best was one of the several individuals who paid tribute to Greene, who spent all of his professional life as a member of the Guyana Police Force before his retirement under the cloud of a rape allegation. He was never charged but he had admitted having “consensual” sex with his accuser.
Greene, who was also a lawyer and had served in many capacities in the police force starting out as a Cadet Officer, died yesterday morning after the vehicle he was driving was