Dear Editor,
The removal of Justice Cecil Kennard as Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) on the grounds of his age is a clear case of racial discrimination.
Mr Kennard has been in the position for a while with no complaints against his conduct.
To now tell him that he is too old at a time when the regime is recruiting people as old as, or older than Justice Kennard is a very, very lame excuse.
We know, for instance, that Mr Hamilton Green, who is well into his eighties, has been recently appointed as Head of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA). Note that Mr Kennard was on the job for years, but Green was relatively recently appointed.
Look also at other appointments that the regime has been making and you will see that age is really not a consideration. Professor Clive Thomas, for instance, has been given a top position to mainly harass opponents of the regime as well as business persons who may be resisting the regime’s shakedown position.
It is also instructive to see the “new” recruits at GuySuCo. Earl John is in his early nineties; Joe Alfred is in his mid to late eighties, George Haynes in his eighties.
There are many others on the various Boards. Even in the Cabinet, most are in their seventies.
The use of age seems only to apply to Indo-Guyanese and those non-Indians who are suspected to be PPP/C sympathisers.
Many others from all race groups who display fairness and impartiality are also being hounded out of employment by a regime that is bent on total control over the lives of all our people.
The use of age to purge the Public Service is just another rouse at ethnic and political cleansing.
Donald Ramotar
Fmr President
