The government has for a second time extended the life of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) set up to probe the death of political activist Dr. Walter Rodney, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon announced yesterday.
At a post cabinet press briefing, Luncheon said that on Tuesday government made a decision to extend the life of the commission to January 31, 2015.
He said too that the commission’s public hearings, which will recommence on Monday, October 20, will now last for a period of two weeks instead of three weeks.
Government earlier this year took the decision to establish the COI after decades of calls for closure. Rodney, a renowned academic