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Dec 30, 2013 Letters
Dear Editor,
For the last ten years Guyana has struggled with this pernicious problem of high crime and senseless killing of innocent citizens by armed bandits for which the slumber PPP regime and its pathetic Minister of Home Affairs have been pilloried for their failure to tame this monster.
In fact, it is often joked that an out-of-favor politician is sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs where his career is expected to die! This is true because the current Minister of Home Affairs career has indeed ‘died’ a long time ago. He has now become the Ghost Minister of Home Affairs.
We recall the more than 400 horrible murders committed between 2002 and 2006 that have shattered many lives, leaving families without mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, uncles, aunts, grandparents, and grandchildren.
We recall the pain and suffering unleashed on this country by marauding, callous scum who killed with impunity and, in the process, created fear that strangled growth and the incompetent Minister of Home Affairs and the corrupt minority PPP regime could not find a solution to this problem.
The Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal continues to hide the truth from the public on the criminality that held the country and people hostage for five years.
Our reflection on this sad, awful chapter in the country’s history is prompted by what is obviously a return to those dark days with the recent spate of robberies and murders. The killers/murderers have robbed the families and the country of citizens who probably could have made significant contributions to Guyana’s development but it was not meant to be.
Mr. Rohee is not a pro-active minister, rather a reactive one who does not know what to do. It is difficult for anyone to fathom that a country with a population of roughly 730,000 would have 130 murders in eleven months.
We, like all right-thinking Guyanese, are appalled by these senseless and brutal murders, which are not only denying the country the benefit of its human resources, but are affecting its economic development, yet the incompetent
Minister of Home Affairs finds time for everything else but to stop the vicious slaughtering of innocent Guyanese. Can anyone imagine that Rohee has blamed the Mayor for the garbage pile-up in the city. We firmly believe that Guyana would be better off without him and several others including the Minister of Housing.
Guyana is losing millions of dollars from cancelled vacations by Guyanese in the Diaspora and other tourism bookings because of a fear of crime, even though crimes against visitors are negligible. Add to this is the disruption to people’s daily lives, as well as the sadness crime has brought to families, the harm it does to social cohesion, and one would get the picture of the kind of predicament that Guyana is in.
Not only that the people are fed up, but they are frustrated at the Minister of Home Affairs and the entire PPP cabal for not doing more to stop or reduce it.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Chandra Deollal, Esq.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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