Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) attorney Selwyn Pieters yesterday apologised for an erroneous statement which the organisation released stating that it was disgusted with former Attorney General Charles Ramson’s testimony concerning policemen, at the Com-mission of Inquiry into Dr. Walter Rodney’s death.
The GTUC’s statement had been based on a report in Stabroek News which had inaccurately reported Ramson as using the word `monkey’ whereas he had used the word `hunky’.
Yesterday, a video of Ramson’s testimony was replayed to the Commission and revealed that Ramson never used the word “monkey” and instead he stated “hunky” when describing a team of policemen who had disrupted a WPA public meeting.
Chairman of the Commission, Sir Richard Cheltenham said Ramson’s testimony was recorded and a verbatim report was provided and checked, and there was no evidence that the word monkey was ever used by Ramson.
He said that Ramson was “inaccurately reported” and asked that the Stabroek News withdraw the statement.
Pieters stated that he did not get to see the GTUC statement before it was released but he knew that the word was “hunky.” “On behalf of the GTUC I apologise…,” he said.
