Critchlow cries, as Duncan in ‘cuffs

  -We’re 23 today!

Strange how one can juxtapose seemingly oblique, or very unrelated events, personalities, reminiscences, when one vivid, even startling bit of drama unfolds.

That happened to me this past Tuesday evening as I viewed the various television newscasts. For therein I could behold FITUG head (the giant labour grouping, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG); the man who manoeuvred Robert H.O Corbin, then PNC Leader out from the symbolic “presidency” of the historic Guyana Labour Union (GLU); the GLU General Secretary and member of many Boards under Bharrat, Comrade Carvil Duncan in white long-sleeved shirt- jac and handcuffs in