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Investigations imperative to addressing root cause for crime
– PNCR
“Criminals, where possible, should be caught and brought to justice, and you must be able to do investigations and get to the root cause for crime.”
PNCR Executive Member, Aubrey Norton
This was one of the sentiments expressed by executive member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton at a press briefing on Thursday last, during which it was noted that the death of the two wanted men, Rondell “Fine Man” Rawlins and Jermaine “Skinny” Charles, whom the police have identified as the perpetrators of a number of heinous crimes, is not only being hailed in some circles as a significant blow to the criminal gangs, but being treated as something of a celebration.
Norton said the party is of the opinion that the opportunity should be taken to properly address the crime situation in Guyana.
In response to why the party’s position on the development seemed to be very guarded, and not expressed with the same euphoria as other prominent segments of society, Norton asserted that no person’s death should be celebrated.
He added that the death of the two men “must not cause us to lose sight of the extant reality that there is a need to deal with the deep-seated causes of crime. These causes are interwoven into the fabric of the Guyanese society and have to be dealt with if we are to overcome the scourge of criminality”.
This, according to the PNCR executive member, should be done together with a comprehensive security plan and a policy of seeking to apprehend criminals, so that there can be an understanding of the criminal enterprise and the development of strategies to destroy the violent and drug-related criminal enterprise at its root.
He stressed that his party, “sees this as creating the necessary space for the Government to develop and aggressively implement an all-embracing, comprehensive national security plan to eradicate the root causes of crime…We believe that, in the medium to long-term, only the successful implementation of such a plan will provide Guyana with a security environment conducive to peace, stability and development.”
Rawlins and Charles, along with Sean Grant, called ‘Troyee’, were slain by members of the Joint Services last week.
PNCR Member of Parliament Keith Scott also used the opportunity on Thursday to call for inquests to be conducted into persons killed by police.
However, as it relates to an inquiry into Fine Man’s shooting to death by the Joint Services, President Bharrat Jagdeo, also on Thursday, dismissed the notion, saying that there will be no such inquiry.
According to Jagdeo, the PNC didn’t call for an inquiry when many people were being slaughtered by Fine Man and the members of his gang, “but suddenly they want an inquiry into Fine Man’s death… It just shows where there priorities are and where there sympathies are…My sympathies are not in the same direction… There will be no inquiry.”
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