Kwayana not surprised private murder charge set aside

Kwayana not surprised private murder charge set aside
Guyana Chronicle
April 28, 2002

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WORKING People's Alliance (WPA) member Mr. Eusi Kwayana says he was not surprised that his private criminal charge of murder against a senior member of the Anti-Crime Squad of the Police in the fatal shooting of Shaka Blair of Buxton, East Coast Demerara, was set aside by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) last week.

Kwayana told reporters Friday that the order of the DPP read at the Vigilance Magistrate's Court, East Coast Demerara, gave no explanation about why the DPP set aside the matter.

Referring to a newspaper report in which Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon was reported as saying, "Government's resolve to have an inquest into Shaka Blair's death on the advice of the DPP is perhaps 'the first and sole intervention that the administration is prepared to make at this time'", Kwayana charged that the DPP was compromising his office if he was advising the Government.

He argued that the DPP is subject to no person or authority under the Constitution and that it is the Attorney General who has to advise the Government on legal matters.