Too many of our youths are pushing drugs

Sep 21, 2018 Letters 0

Dear Editor,
The constant rise of crime in Guyana is a perpetual phenomenon and a very frightening situation among our young women and young men. As I watched the news and read the papers I am flabbergasted at the vast number of young women who are into the drug pushing business and are sentenced daily and fined heavily by our courts. I just saw this caption:
”Vendor, hairdresser remanded on trafficking charges after airport cocaine bust”
These are very young women that are involved in these drug crimes. We also see young men involved into robbery under arms, murder, rape, drug pushing and the long dismal list of crime daily goes on.
This does not mean that older drug dealers are not involved by using these young people as their ”scapegoats” to carry out their insidious acts. We also saw on the news that different types of drugs infiltrating our school system and we are told the drug pushers are the students. We will now need more school security before guns infiltrate our schools.
Most young people who are involved in crimes have a desire to ”get rich quick” and many of them are very educated but they don’t want to work or seek a job. They have decided to keep the wrong company thus push themselves into a life of crime by peer pressure.
Poor economies like Guyana where unemployment is on the increase and the closing down of the sugar industries is another broad road to crime. Young people are frustrated because they have no jobs even if they are qualified. Most seek to migrate, never to return. Professor Clive Thomas wanted to give one million Guyana dollars to every family here which is not a lot of money.
We will not be extracting oil for a next twenty years in Guyana so it will be wise if this administration and the incoming governments have a strategic economic plan to invest this money by opening up more job opportunities for our Guyanese people by creating more industries and not more ”debts”. This money can also be used to modernize the sugar industries so that workers can get more jobs. If we can invest wisely in modern technology and create more payable jobs also raise teachers pay to three hundred thousand per month we will have more Guyanese coming back to live here than the massive migration we have seen for the past fifty years.
A close look at our markets and in Georgetown tells me clearly we have more sellers than buyers so if everybody wants to be a business man or woman then who will buy? This administration needs to invest in our security system by paying policemen and soldiers better salaries. We have to stamp out this drug trade before it gets out of control.
Crime is also a moral issue where we have poor family values in our nation. Too much ”single parent life styles” the sanctity of marriage is thrown out the homes so we have too much ”tek up, live home and shak up life styles” that produce many unwanted children who grow up into poverty that are the criminals for tomorrow.
We must set examples for our children to follow. A life of poverty and laziness will lead to a life of constant crime. It’s time we inculcate moral values in our young people that’s why I have a youth group in my church. It’s about time we introduce religious education into our schools and prayer. I wish to admonish all young and old people to refrain from crime. No nation is able to give every citizen all their wants and needs.
”In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” Genesis 3:19
Life is about hard work that is what God requires of us.