Is that Shirley ??

sure looks like her

You guys are blind,there is no woman in the photo. I met Shirley, she was a beautiful woman.

I was afraid to say it....but, the vision of a woman is exposed.

kp posted:

You guys are blind,there is no woman in the photo. I met Shirley, she was a beautiful woman.

yeh! I know.

Taps not in the picture 

dat really looked like a woman

Amral posted:

dat really looked like a woman

Come on, you really need to go out some more, I think the hat and fancy shirt caught you.

Hammie should have been whacked years ago

Its not Shirley !...

SHIRLEY FIELD-RIDLEY

funny how the fella actually look like SFR

I had a professional working relationship with Shirley in 1969 and 1970 when I worked at the Ministry of Works under her husband Green...

BTW she was famous for the fact of having been married to two men who ultimately became prime ministers of two different countries....namely PJ Patterson of Jamaica and Hamilton Green of Guyana...

Her father was also the speaker of the House at one time.....

RiffRaff posted:

funny how the fella actually look like SFR

May be her brother,i got carried away taught it was her.

Blackmoore was her personal trainer.

Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

Blackmoore was her personal trainer.

The boxer??

It would be interesting reading the up coming novel "how Rodney committed Suicide" forword by the Pharaoh Granjer. On a different note Shirley's death should be completely investigated.

Churchill posted:

I had a professional working relationship with Shirley in 1969 and 1970 when I worked at the Ministry of Works under her husband Green...

BTW she was famous for the fact of having been married to two men who ultimately became prime ministers of two different countries....namely PJ Patterson of Jamaica and Hamilton Green of Guyana...

Her father was also the speaker of the House at one time.....

Churchill was the original taps, Kwame and Lumumba. He did it all.

Prashad posted:

Churchill posted:

I had a professional working relationship with Shirley in 1969 and 1970 when I worked at the Ministry of Works under her husband Green...

BTW she was famous for the fact of having been married to two men who ultimately became prime ministers of two different countries....namely PJ Patterson of Jamaica and Hamilton Green of Guyana...

Her father was also the speaker of the House at one time.....

Churchill was the original taps, Kwame and Lumumba. He did it all.

Okay, Prash, ease up on Churchill. He is my comrade and friend. Thank you very much.

Okay

Prashad doesn't bother me , it is amusing how he makes an ass of himself....

Churchill posted:

Prashad doesn't bother me , it is amusing how he makes an ass of himself....

Churchill, please don't provoke Prashad. Let there be Peace. 

Gilbakka you know me well enough to know that I am a peaceful person...but Prsahad always pushes the wrong button with me...it seems to be one of his favourite passtimes....I know who he is ....let him continue making an ass of himself.....

Thank you for your concern.....

From what I understand Green still packs a piece...

Green is the Chairman of the Housing Board.  This man has done atrocious stuff in Guyana and should have been in Jail. 

Shirley - First black to be cremated. 

Shirley's cremation was cremated before  an autopsy could have been performed...

Churchill posted:

Shirley's cremation was cremated before  an autopsy could have been performed...

That's right, schools kids had to walk through the rain and mud to her cremation at Lusignan. I was one of those kid.. 

There are still many unanswered questions surrounding her sudden death...around the time she died some members of the Field-Ridley family were having problems with Burnham....her brother was victimized after he started to question some of the things the then government was doing...I heard from a source close to the PNC that Shirley was very upset and was planning to leave Guyana....

Hamilton Green had her body cremated in less than 24hours after her death, it was rumored that she was poisoned.

Wasn't Green the minister of health at that time ? ...

Churchill posted:

Wasn't Green the minister of health at that time ? ...

Yes. If I am correct Green was PM from 1985 and Shirley died in 1982.  

Gilbakka I will honour you request even though my bitterness towards that person continues.

Prashad posted:

Gilbakka I will honour you request

Thanks, Prash.

Gill, you like the peace maker. Them would need you fo Lil Joe and Soja boy. 

ian posted:

Gill, you like the peace maker. Them would need you fo Lil Joe and Soja boy. 

Thanks. Major General Joseph Singh will do a fine job there.

Churchill posted:

There are still many unanswered questions surrounding her sudden death...around the time she died some members of the Field-Ridley family were having problems with Burnham....her brother was victimized after he started to question some of the things the then government was doing...I heard from a source close to the PNC that Shirley was very upset and was planning to leave Guyana....

 

Very interesting Churchill . I heard a rumour in Georgetown that she had become very upset with what Burnham was doing also but I never heard she was planning to flee Guyana.

randolph posted:

Glad he is no longer in office.

Django posted:

Is that Shirley ??

Shirley Field-Ridley.  As Minister of Education, she visited Beterverwagting Govt. School, and we all had to stand up as she walked into our classroom and spoke to the our teacher Mr.  Rollingston Lewis.

y'all need to stop this empty nonsense

the available evidence points to her suicide . . . and cover up, for all the  obvious reasons

she was constantly being humiliated by Hammie with his nuff nuff wimmen . . . Burnham practically had to shotgun their marriage for appearances sake

Guyana, isolated and in economic tailspin simply did not help

i remember like yesterday watching her on TV in my college dorm fielding questions when Jonestown broke . . . she was excellent!

depression under the circumstances makes a lot of sense; creole middle class Guyanese like Field-Ridley were never doctrinaire communists

and, yes,  i do think that she considered leaving Guyana; her Jamaica connections remained strong

What is very interesting is recently I read that Walter Rodney had visited the American Embassy on December 3rd 1979 and may have met with the CIA station chief in Guyana and reassured him or her that the WPA was not opposed to the interests of the United States. He may have been tipped  off that someone was feeding the CIA false information.