Comments on: History This Week

By: Macushi Piyasang

Macushi Piyasang — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:37:29 +0000

Are you Guys related to Mr Norton who taught science – at St. Ignatius Secondary, Lethem?

By: Macushi Piyasang

Macushi Piyasang — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:35:05 +0000

One of the retired army generals don’t like to read/hear that.
We were targeted because a handful of us were influenced and fooled into the whole operation.

By: Dust.

Dust. — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:41:38 +0000

Thanks for the information. Will check it out. When I saw the name Valerie Hart it rang a bell. I was a teenager when it all happened and why it stuck, her sister lived in our village just a few houses away from ours.

By: Thula Norton-Lambert

Thula Norton-Lambert — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:20:23 +0000

I must say that I certainly appreciate the fact that my comments were finally published on this site. For those who might be interested in learning more about the Rupununi Uprising from a more objective source please see Wikipedia, where you can find articles in both English and French.

By: Thula Norton-Lambert

Thula Norton-Lambert — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:32:28 +0000

I can’t say I was surprised that my article wasn’t published. Nothing has really changed since I left Guyana 24 years ago.

Thula Norton Lambert

By: Trevor A. Norton

Trevor A. Norton — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:04:02 +0000

While I am sympathetic to Ms. McAlmont’s clearly-implied agenda, I find it shockingly distasteful that the 40th anniversary of my father’s demise has been used as the occasion to champion the political and leadership skills of the woman who is an unquestioned accessory to that murder. To lionize a murderer, especially in the context of the wider failure of Guyana’s justice system to fulfill its sworn duty to provide justice, is a shocking example of how agenda-driven reporting can kill objectivity.

My younger sister, Thula Norton Lambert, has recently e-mailed a thoughtfully-written, contextually relevant article on the 40th anniversary of the Rupununi Uprising. To the best of my knowledge, that article remains unpublished. That in its stead I would find Ms. McAlmont’s grudging admiration for a woman who “…proved to be an aggressive and shrewd lobbyist prepared to do or say anything to achieve her ends,” and praise for her “…tremendous courage and determination,” is particularly galling.

Since as a victim of this senseless and as yet unpunished crime I have my own agenda, let me close with a paraphrase of Ms. McAlmont’s closing question: Since surviving victims of the Rupununi tragedy are reading this, would they be pleased at the current status of the administration of justice in the country of their birth?

By: M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett

M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:02:39 +0000

Any truth, grain or more, that the Indigenous Guyanese of the Rupununi were brutalized in revenge by the armed forces of the coastland Guyanese, after the rebellion was put down?

By: M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett

M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:57:05 +0000

Chinese extraction? Extraction? Like a bad tooth? Why we never hear of Indian extraction or African extraction?