Keep Courtney alive

The drummers, trumpet player, and shak shak player, who played their instruments while the crowd sang Christian songs.

By Rae Wiltshire

“Today I am very proud, sad but proud, proud that Courtney made such a lasting impression on so many….God doesn’t sleep, I plead with you, let’s keep Courtney alive, don’t let him die,” Clifford Crum-Ewing said yesterday as his son, slain activist Courtney Crum-Ewing was laid to rest.

His words were greeted with applause from the hundreds, many dressed in red and black, who assembled at Parade Ground yesterday to view the body and deliver tributes.

The casket, draped in the Golden Arrowhead, arrived at 12:30pm and as the hearse made its way through a cramped passageway, mourners held miniature Guyana flags over it. Those who could not