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In 2011 we can halt the rot

Feb 21, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
The first shock is the nature of the event as reported in the Kaieteur News article of 18 February, 2010, “Sisters 9, 8 and 7 identify abusers”, awesome in its evil, brutality and devastation.
The second shock is that Guyanese society has become so deformed we can produce the individuals who commit such crimes against mere children repeatedly. Logwood, Enmore, East Coast Demerara, we sense, will be followed by chore.
The reflexive instinct is to seek an explanation that allows us to understand why this type of abuse has become so commonplace. We may not need a team of psychologists or psychiatrists to point us to the answers. What seems clear is that a highly permissive administration known to protect and cuddle deviants in its midst has been setting a bad, rather — egregious, example.
The chickens have come home to roost. Real improvement demands a profound change in the character of Guyanese society and culture. It begins with those we elect to govern us, those we expect to set the moral example.
We must ensure that the next general election ushers in a new, clean dispensation, a new morality and consciousness – an administration that recognises its moral responsibility, then at least there may be some chance of making the deviants recognise the consequences of breaking basic human rules on such a scale and of embedding them in social relations that can act as a constraint.
This spate of awful crimes against children highlights what we know in our guts: that Guyana’s stock of social capital is fast diminishing and unless it is replenished by a new moral dispensation in 2011 there will be more of the same and the same by more.
In 2011 we can halt the rot. We must.
F. Hamley Case

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