PNCR protests - a deliberate effort to intimidate police leadership

PNCR protests – a deliberate effort to intimidate police leadership

May 16, 2008 News

– Dr. Luncheon

“The PNCR, recognising that security is a burning issue in Guyana, has obviously decided that street protests are a sure way of focusing Guyanese attention on security,” Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday, during his weekly post-Cabinet media briefing at the Office of the President. The Cabinet Secretary was commenting on the move by the main Opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) to conduct street protests and the manner in which these have been conducted.
He was also critical of the constant criticisms of any actions taken by the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Defence Force during crime fighting operations.
“The street protests can be seen as a deliberate attempt by the PNCR to intimidate the police leadership, to provoke the police during their discharge of law enforcement duties and so provide additional issues for more contention in the public domain and in the lives of Guyanese.”
He noted that since the 2002 jailbreak, voices criticising the Joint Services were raised including that of the PNCR Leadership and contended that it is not a secret that the party provides support to criminals in many ways.
Dr Luncheon recalled that the late President Desmond Hoyte was captured on tape giving advice to criminal gangs. He asserted too that evidence exists of physical engagement between leading members of the party and the Buxton criminal gang.
“Mr. Corbin, unlike other leaders in CARICOM (the Caribbean Community), opportunistically sees security, not from the perspective of the victims and society. His few commiserations are lost in the mountains of complaints about army and police practices, complaints to the media, the public, the overseas Guyanese and now to CARICOM,” the HPS said.
Dr. Luncheon pointed out that the main Opposition
Party’s posture, its multitude of acts and statements merely embolden criminals and serve to defend criminal practices and attempt to confuse the Joint Services.
He added that the actions by the Corbin-led party have resulted in alienation and have caused the public to be deeply suspicious of the party’s motives.
“The result is an attempt to use street protests to generate issues and to further criticise the operations and practices of the Joint Services. Mr. Corbin and his followers can hardly conceal their glee on seizing the opportunities to exploit any weaknesses in the security system and in heightening emotional extremism in response to killings and other outrages.”

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