Government has announced plans to formally recognise the death of prominent Guyanese historian, political activist and academic, Dr. Walter Rodney.
Attorney General, Anil Nandall, told the House that based on a request from the Rodney family, President Irfaan Ali and his government have decided to move in this direction.
Dr. Rodney’s death certificate will be amended to reflect that he died by assassination, and records would be amended read that he was professor instead of unemployed.
Further, the government will move to resuscitate the Walter Rodney Chair at the University of Guyana. His graveside and monument would also be declared national monuments.
Materials from the 2014 Commission of Inquiry into his death, launched under the Donald Ramotar administration, would be digitised and stored locally and overseas.
June 13, 2021, will mark forty one years since Dr. Rodney’s death.
