More than a month after Aishalton schoolteacher John Adams said that he was slapped by presidential guards during a public meeting with President Donald Ramotar, the Aishalton Village Council has acknowledged that the incident took place.
Head of the Presidential Guard Rohan Singh had strenuously denied that Adams was slapped. In a letter to Stabroek News, which among other things, criticized this newspaper for its reportage of the incident, Singh had that ‘truth’ will suffer. In the letter, Singh had stated that “there was no verbal or physical contact with the individual” and said that Adams appeared to be drunk.
It is not clear what the acknowledgement by the Aishalton Village Council that Adams was slapped will have on Singh’s position or on the investigation into the incident which appears to have ended.
Some village leaders have called for Adams to be transferred from the Aishalton Secondary School
