Walter Rodney was among six targets in state murder plot

Months after he testified at the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of historian Walter Rodney, prisoner Robert Allan Gates once again took the stand yesterday, this time to claim that then-government had plotted to kill six persons, including Rodney and other members of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA).

During the 48th hearing of the CoI, Gates further said that WPA member Dr Rupert Roopnaraine owed him his life as he had