Dr. Rupert Roopnarine of WPA

Charged with fire bombing PNC headquarters with Dr. Walter Rodney

now Minister of Education and Sports while Walter was assasinated !!

WPA : Working People Alliance

                 

politics make strange bedfellows

How we all forget

Don't ask me how Rupert escape that faithful day.  ::yawn::

Rupert did not have a car  :-[


Walter Rodney  turn on his Ignition and.......... BOOM !!!

I know...


rupert was in the car with him before the car blew up. :-*

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I know...


rupert was in the car with him before the car blew up. :-*
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really?  any source for that?

yes I read it in an article.  ::LOL::

Look how he aged from back in '79 : DOUBLE his age , now ! 

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Rupert Roopnaraine 

Writer / Politician

Rupert was born on January 31, 1943 in Georgetown, Guyana.

In 1954, he won a scholarship to Queen's College, where he excelled in cricket;

he captained the team and represented Demerara in the Inter-county Cricket Finals.

In 1962 he was awarded a Guyana scholarship to attend the University of Cambridge, where he studied Modern Languages.

He played first-class cricket for the Cambridge University team from 1964 to 1966 and was awarded a Blue

for representing the university in the annual University Match against Oxford in 1965 and 1966.

In 1970, he was awarded a scholarship to Cornell University, New York :

where he obtained an MA and PhD  in Comparative Literature.

From 1976 to 1996, he has worked as a university lecturer in the UK, Canada, the US

and at the University of Guyana       
                                                                               

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NOW holding down 2 Ministry ...Education and Sport : his background is well Suited 

2nd row : 4th from your left