Walkie-talkie, not explosives was being collected on fateful night

Donald Rodney

More than 34 years after the death of historian Dr Walter Rodney, his brother, Donald, the only living witness to his demise, yesterday testified before a Commission of Inquiry that on the fateful night they were uplifting a walkie-talkie from alleged assassin Gregory Smith and not explosives.

Donald Rodney’s much-anticipated testimony was delivered before an inquiry that the Rodney family had long sought and he stuck to the outlines of earlier statements