Dear Editor,
“Sister Clemmy”, as I and many others called her, was a very personable individual whose presence was always felt in a room; if it wasn’t her claps and exclamations of approval during sermons at church, it was her giving of tips on how a good meal should be prepared. Sister Clemmy loved to cook and was often one of the lead cooks at church functions and our annual youth camp. I loved eating her finger-licking food – from the float bakes with salt fish, to the dhal and rice with fried fish. Sister Clemmy had promised to teach me to make her signature roti at her home in Robb Street. Unfortunately that time never came because her life was coldly and mercilessly snuffed out by gunmen who pumped bullets into her seventy-two year old frame in this same home. Four men implicated in her death have fortunately been given life sentences, but the masterminds of this heinous crime are still to be brought before the courts. I recently read an online report by the Guyana Standard (dated August 13, 2019) which seemed to suggest that the murder case of Sister Clemmy (Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris) has been re-opened by the Guyana Police Force’s Major Crimes Unit (MCU). I pray that this is so and that the masterminds are brought to justice. Sister Clemmy was a member of our church family and her death will never be forgotten – neither by God nor by us. The wise King Solomon, in Proverbs 1, cautions that those who plan for the death of others and seek after ill-gotten gain spread a net for themselves and ensnare their own lives. Woe to those who have washed their hands in this innocent women’s blood!
Yours faithfully,
Loria-Mae Heywood
