Co-leader of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine says it comes as no surprise that former police commissioner Laurie Lewis paved the way for Gregory Smith, the main suspect in the 1980 death of Dr Walter Rodney, to obtain a Guyana passport years after.
Roopnaraine also says the evidence from the most recent session of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI), which implicated the now deceased Lewis in the manipulation of the standing procedures to ensure that Smith received a passport, confirms that the State was willing to do anything necessary to protect him.
Police Sergeant Alexis Adams, who is attached to the Records Department of the Central Immigration and Passport Office, testified that records indicate that the