Georgetown: United States Ambassador to Guyana; Perry Holloway says he does not support the notion that President David Granger is racist as was published by a WikiLeaks cable between the US Embassy and Washington of June 27, 1974.
The US diplomatic cable on the Guyana National Service (GNS) from the US embassy here to the State Department and other American Missions gave an assessment of Granger who was a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Major at the time. It stated that “…Granger have reputations as ideologues and anti-East Indian racist….”.
At that time, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary serving here was Max V. Krebs.
Present Ambassador to Guyana, Holloway stated that “if you read what it says very carefully does not reflect my own personal observations in interactions with the President nor does it reflects what he has been saying in public and doing in public as part of the coalition government”
He added that he has no knowledge of what surrounded the thought at that time.
“I was in elementary school when the cable was written and the ambassador at the time is no longer with us so we can’t get what his thought was and what else was surrounding it but I can say that the one comment which was referring to his reputation; “we did not call him that”, Holloway said.
The 30-year-old cable surfaced on the Wikileaks website recently and was first published by the local media (Sunday November, 15).
The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) which is headed by Granger, also came out to condemn the publication. The PNCR in a statement said “Granger has dedicated his entire working life to public service and at all times a major pillar of his written works and his personal philosophy has been the pursuit of national unity.”
It added that “As Leader of the PNCR, Brigadier Granger has articulated on numerous occasions that national unity is an imperative in Guyana’s current fragile political, social and economic circumstances.”
The Party said President Granger’s personal life and his life works clearly debunks this malicious and unfounded claim.
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