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Reader expresses anger over ‘drugs’ reports
Dear Editor,
I read with anger the news report of the 122.65 kg of cocaine seized aboard a ship, the Vega Azurit, from Guyana. The shipment was reportedly valued at an estimated J$217 million.
Sir, I am angry because my native land, Guyana, has become notorious in the United States as a cocaine kingdom. The illegal substance destroys the lives of many families and individuals over here.
From what I have been reading in your vanguard newspapers over the last 15 years, Guyana has become a transshipment haven for illegal drug trafficking.
Illegal cocaine trafficking has thrived and prospered under the PPPC Government. Reports circulate over here that some top officials in the government aid and abet the drug lords in Guyana. Their payoffs are visible for all to see. They live in palaces and drive around in expensive cars.
The PPPC has, to all intents and purposes, cast a blind eye to the illegal drug trade. Guyanese drug kingpin Roger Khan, now in jail here, was a protégé of the PPPC Government and enjoyed immunity from arrest and prosecution.
Almost every week, one reads in the newspaper of the drug mules, visitors to Guyana from all over the world being arrested with cocaine in their possession, yet the PPPC Government appears never to bother itself to find out who supplied them with the coke. The illegal cocaine trade is a major cause of enormous number of murders and other crimes in Guyana, a hallmark of the PPP/C Government.
It is clear that as long as the PPP/C Government is in power, the cocaine trade will continue to flourish, as will crimes.
No wonder the PPPC Government and its costly propaganda machine try to focus the attention of the people on the Government of 20 years ago and not on its inept, corrupt and poor governance of the past 19 years.
Valda A. Forsythe
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