Andrew Morrison

Who is Andrew Morrison?

Father Andrew Morrison was a Jesuit Catholic priest who devoted his life to the liberation of his fellow Guyanese countrymen from a long period of State dictatorship. He also championed the cause for 'freedom of the press' in Guyana that had far reaching effects internationally.

Fr Morrison's first major public episode, in view of the international community at large, was his coverage of the Jim Jones led mass suicide-massacre, which took place in 1978 in Guyana. A year later, an assassination attempt upon his life failed because a fellow Jesuit was mistaken for Fr Morrison; Fr Darke was brutally murdered. Such attempts to frustrate Fr Morrison's quest for justice and rights had absolutely no effect upon him. In fact he even publicly exposed a plot by members of the governing regime to assassinate an opposition Guyanese politician in the paper he headed, the Catholic Standard. Amidst awards and honours from the international community he lamented the state of his countrymen and further hardships experienced by the certain fellow Jesuit elements, supporters of his cause.Fr Connors was deported from Guyana.