Expect a fight, Ms Coudray

THE EDITOR: This is an open letter to Marlene Coudray of the San Fernando City Corporation. This letter is more to warn than to extend kudos, though due to her recently taken stand against victimisation, so vindictively aimed in her direction by those who learnt well from the dean of victimisation.

It would serve you well Ms Coudray to secure a copy of an article of some years ago written by Kim Johnston with the heading “Gene Miles, Nationalist betrayed.” Read Ms Coudray, what men of power can do to someone who stands against corruption and dictatorship. Gene Miles like you Ms Coudray, stood on the fragile branch of principle when unearthing the gas station racket of the early 1960s.

Read what the then Minister of Petroleum and Mines, the infamous John O’Halloran did to Gene Miles after he was through with her. These men do not play by the rules. They are devoid of scruples and morals, not that politics have any. Gene Miles died a broken woman, driven to drink and on the brink of vagrancy by O’Halloran and Company.

I am not suggesting Ms Coudray that you surrender your integrity if you believe that certain facts should be made public, but be prepared to take many a low blow in your pursuance of principles. It may interest you to know Ms Coudray, that John O’Halloran after being caught in the Tesoro scandal, fled to Canada there to die a millionaire. Gene Miles, patriot, died in 1972 at age 42, penniless and unmourned, save for her family and those who knew her well.

EVERARD LEON
Petit Valley