Aside from the impoliteness of local officials being kept waiting for four hours for the arrival of Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda in April of 1975, a US diplomatic cable related what it saw as a creeping merger of the party and the state which saw the PNC flag flying on all government ministries and the Guyana Court of Appeal building.
The April 28, 1975 cable from the US embassy here to various other missions overseas in the name of then Ambassador Max V. Krebs related how Guyana’s officials and the diplomatic corps had to cool their heels for four hours at the Timehri airport awaiting the arrival of
