I also avidly read newspaper accounts, all owned by the private sector and one owned by an opposition party leader who entrusted it to his chief propagandist of the time.

I have made these recollections in view of a statement made on the At Home With Roger talk show and whose guest is a virulent critic of the PPP/Civic administration.

It was claimed that the Police conducted a raid on Freedom House Headquarters of the PPP in 1963 and a number of illegal arms and ammunition were found. Well, this might have been in another country, because it certainly didn't happen here.

The country was under the control of the Colonial Government at the time and British troops were in the country and it was well known that the British, the Police and the Volunteer Force were supportive of the PNC and unsympathetic to the PPP.

The Police decided to raid Freedom House, but not to appear partisan, they also carried out a raid on the PNC Headquarters where a large quantity of guns and ammunition and explosive materials were in fact discovered - as well as a terrorist plan code-named X-13.

The colonial administration and the Police tried desperately to cover this up as no such things were discovered at PPP Headquarters, Freedom House. Since then, there has always been the attempt by the PNC to say that arms and ammunition were also discovered there because they had been exposed.

So it is a blatant lie to say that weapons were discovered at the PPP's Freedom House.

Even up to now, and not so long ago, a Police Commissioner said and this is a matter of record that he will not go into Congress Place, the PNC's Headquarters unless he had " strong back up."
Yours faithfully,
Derrick Adams

Thursday, January 22, 2004