Commissioners sworn-in for Walter Rodney probe

From left are Deputy GDF COS, Col Khemraj Persaud; inquiry facilitator, Hugh Denbow; Trinidad and Tobago, Senior Counsel Seenath Jairam; Jamaican Queen’s Counsel, Jacqueline Samuels-Brown; Sir Richard Cheltenham and Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Brigadier Mark Phillips. (GDF photo)

Sir Richard Cheltenham QC, newly-appointed Chairman of the international Commission of Inquiry (CoI) established to probe the 1980 murder of political activist Dr Walter Rodney, is optimistic of making headway despite the passage of over three decades.

“The fact that it happened 30 years or so ago need not be any bar to a full exposure of what took place and for the commission to make some firm conclusions,” he said after being sworn-in at the Office of the President, where he revealed