Quantity surveyor Donald Rodney yesterday commenced a vigil in front of the Guyana Court of Appeal in protest at what he says is an inordinate delay by the court in hearing an appeal against a 1982 conviction for possession of explosives.
He is also advocating for an investigation into a 2010 appeal filed in his name, but which he says did not commence. That appeal was eventually dismissed.
Donald Rodney is the brother of Guyanese intellectual, writer, and political activist, Walter Rodney, who is said to have been assassinated on June 13th 1980 with the complicity of the then PNC government.
