Gaping holes have not only been placed in the bodies of men and women in this country, but there are gaping holes where the integrity and patriotism of many of our citizens should be.
Five years later the cries of Crum-Ewing’s relatives hang over our country.
As the Black Lives Matter movement continues to spread across the world with a mission of seeking justice and equality for those of African descent in America and wherever Black people have dealt with institutional racism, we must ask ourselves, do Black lives matter in Guyana?
Not only the life of Crum-Ewing, but the many other Black men and women who were executed in this country and for which no one was ever prosecuted, whether it was that they were speaking up against prejudices and inequalities like Ronald Waddell or whether it was that the circumstances surrounding their deaths were mysterious.
Still as we wait on GECOM’s pronouncement on the March 2nd elections, as Guyanese we are in a time where we can either sink or fly; and if we allow ourselves to sink by no efforts to unite or work towards the best solution that will move our country forward where all our citizens will feel valued, equal and at peace, his death would have been in vain.
