GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — The report of a Commission of Enquiry that probed the circumstances that led to the assassination of former university lecturer and political activist Dr Walter Rodney is to be handed over to the government next week.

Attorney General Basil Williams, who yesterday met with the three members of the Commission – Chairman Sir Richard Cheltenham from Barbados, Queens Counsel Jacqueline Samuels – Brown from Jamaica, and Senior Counsel Seerath Jairam from Trinidad and Tobago – said he had been given the assurance that the report would be handed over to President David Granger.

Williams told the online- based publication

News Source that releasing the report to the public will be at the discretion of the president.

In December, President Granger declined a request from Sir Richard for yet another adjournment to submit the report on the Commission’s findings.

Sir Richard had written to President Granger requesting an adjournment to February 29 this year.

The enquiry was commissioned by former president Donald Ramotar and it began its work in April 2014. But soon after the Granger-led coalition government came to power in May last year, it was gven a deadline to wrap up its sittings.

The Commission was tasked with, among other things, examining the facts and circumstances immediately prior, at the time of, and subsequent to, the death of Rodney in order to determine, as far as possible, who or what was responsible for the explosion resulting in his death.

Rodney was the founder of the Working People’s Alliance. He was killed when a bomb exploded in his lap as he sat in a car in 1980.