A change in traffic laws in Guyana?

Sep 26, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
I would like the traffic department of the Guyana Police Force to respond to my query of a notice I observed printed recently in the daily newspapers, Kaieteur News and Chronicle. It is titled “Advisory to Motor Vehicle Owners”.
Apart from notifying motor vehicles owners that the period of renewal of Motor Vehicle Licence for those who were supposed to renew from January to August 2012, is now over, and that those errant owners will now be subject to enforcement by the Police, the notice goes on to say “ Motor Vehicle Owners are required to have their Motor Vehicle Registration and Motor Vehicle License in their vehicle and must be able to produce same upon request by the relevant authority”.
Since when is it required by law that a driver must have his Vehicle Registration at all times with him in the vehicle? That never was a requirement before. Is this a new requirement, or an oversight by whoever made that notice?
I know that it is required to have your Vehicle License at all times in the vehicle, but now your registration as well? Registration certificates are pieces of ordinary paper that will be destroyed so fast being kept in a vehicle, I wonder what are we to do when it gets destroyed?
Replacement is too time consuming at the rate things are being done in this country. On another note, what happened to the 24 hours you are supposed to have for the presentation of a driver’s licence, and 72 hours to produce a certificate of insurance? Traffic cops these days are merciless on drivers.
There is no such thing as a “warning” for defaulters. If you are caught driving one kilometer over the speed limit, the police gladly torment you to the point where many people fork out a “raise” in order to not pay a ticket, or to avoid being detained.
In other countries, you have to be more than 10 to 15 km over the speed limit before you will get a ticket. That makes sense, as the driver cannot have his eyes pasted to the speedometer to watch every km of speed while driving.
His attention must be on the roadway and its users. It seems that the traffic police in this country use excessive means to send fear and thus extort bribes from errant drivers. When will we ever see humane treatment from the Police Force?
No wonder the Force is demonized by all and sundry, because its members behave as if they can take whatever action they are pleased to, and we are left at their mercy (which they don’t really have, by the way)
S. Ali

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