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Sharon Amos
[Handwriting: “Read to J.]
Chief Justice and Mrs Bollers [Harold and Eileen] visit to them Guy and sharon
Fri 27/10/78
-she had asked that I drop by today
-she and Chief Justice (Harry) were talking to us and Harry said that it was wonderful how we got on so well with each other and didn’t bicker / Guy had said how overwelmedhe was when he first came to JT and saw people of all races and all types working together etc.
-I asked ifhe had talked to Barnwell and he saidhe had and I showed him the paper and asked him if Barnwell had said anything about it to him
-well yes he said “he wants to keep all the goodies for himself”
-Elaine [Eileen] Bollers told me that she used to talk to the PM and Viola quite a bit but feels that they have changed and that they don’t talk to people much except for the Ministers. She said that she feels they have become effectedby power
-she said his house both the residence and the Bel Field residence are luxurious–they live far above the people. They have air conditioners in every room and the furniture is very very luxurious
-she said they were all poor people the ministers and the PM and Viola and look how they all live now/ and she said she came from a wealthy home (Elaine did) and she lives relatively simply (she does)
-she said that Harry only makes $2000 a month as a chief justice and it’s bad that the judges get paid so little
-while we were there a man came over-his daughter had burnt to death/ she was 16 and it was all in the paper and on the radio/it was a terrible tragedy
-he used to work as a driver for the Bollers but they hadn’t realized it was him/ Elaine was upset about it but tho she was kind–after she started saying “now you’ll have to be good, not go out with women etc. Everything is for a purpose”
-he said he didn’t go out with women but Elaine told him she had once found pictures of women in the glove compartment of the car
-he was very upset about his daughter and was in tears/ he told me that Guyanese people don’t like to assist and they could have gotten her out if they had helped (in the paper it had said a couple of people had tried to get her out but it was too late)
-Elaine asked how the girl had not gotten out as she was in the house and she had crouched in the kitchen but it was strange she hadn’t gotten out
-he didn’t say anything
-this family is the one Margaret Ackman is helping and I said maybe we can help get some men’s clothes for them
-Harry Bollers wasn’t too anxious to take this man home as he wanted a ride but finally the man talked Harry into it
-the man said he had been to talk to the PM and the PM said that Margaret would help you (Margaret Ackman)
-I said to Elaine that it was kind for the PM to talk to the man and she said the PM could be quite kind if he wanted to be, he had a kind streak in him
-theman wanted Elaine to go to the funeral/ he’s a Hindu/ but Elaine said she didn’t think she could stand it
-Harry said that the medicine Elaine is taking is clearing up her lungs and that her x-ray is now clear/ he gave Joyce credit because it was she Joyce that insisted that there was something wrong with Elaine’s lungs in the first place and said she needed antibiotics and that she should get an x-ray
-Elaine is quite frightened now to be by herself–she’s little crazy/ she used to totally take care of Harry she told me but now he has to take care of her because of her illness
-he says she is too preoccupied with this (told me) and talks of it constantly