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Is Guyana’s Justice system up for sale?

Sep 10, 2014 Letters

Dear Sir,
I am convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that the Justice system in Guyana is up for sale. I can outline to you countless experiences that led me to the conclusion that our Justice System is biased in favour of people of certain social and financial standing.
Take for example situation that I encountered with Kevin Jeffrey. After purchasing part of a satellite system from me for his location in the interior and my technician had successfully installed it in January 2014, he chose in February to switch the bandwidth to another provider. Since the equipment supplied by my company was incompatible with those supplied by the other provider it could not work. I informed Mr Jeffrey of the situation
He chose, however, to come to my office at the corner of D’Urban and Smyth Street where he choked me and slammed me to the wall in my office. I then told him that I will do no talking with him since he assaulted me and he needs to do all further communication to the Police. His response to me was that he has not assaulted me as yet, and I would see when they finish with me.
I was very fearful and expected them to shoot me. However he came to my seat where I was sitting and choked me again.
His worker who is only known to me by the name of Teddy, and my staff, Travis Moore, whom I had just dismissed then removed one desktop computer and three laptop computers from my office.
I decided to go to the Brickdam Police Station to report the incident and saw Travis Moore leaving the compound. The detective from Brickdam Police station called him back. The other two men, Kevin Jeffrey and Teddy, only produced one laptop computer and the desktop computer.
Since I vehemently objected that these were not all the items the police decided to place the men into custody. At this point Kevin Jeffrey asked me what it would cost for the matter to go away.  My reply was that he assaulted me and stole my equipment therefore the police would have to deal with the matter.
After several weeks of running to the Brickdam Police Station and dealing with Detective Marshall at Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Brickdam I observed that the police were not pressing charges so I started to question whether someone was being bribed or whether It was racial preference that was immunizing the individuals from due course of the law.
Subsequently I was informed that the police were sending the matter to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice.
It was in May 2014 that I was eventually informed that the police, on advice of the DPP, decided to charge the perpetrators of the felony for Assault only and to just return the computers to me.
I went to the police station on Monday September 8, 2014 with my brother Randolph Williams Junior and my father Randolph Williams Senior and collected the Desktop Computer, minus the power and monitor data cables. And the Compaq Laptop only minus the laptop charger, with the advise to return on Wednesday for the laptop charger because the police would have to look properly in the property room for the laptop charger.
Detective Marshall informed us that the course of action that was taken was due to the fact that Travis Moore did give a statement that he and the other individuals collected equipment unlawfully from my office. He also informed us that my Secretary who was not at the office during the incident in question.
When the equipment reached my office on closer inspection it was discovered that the power button was disconnected from the desktop computer so it could not start.
In summary, I had to purchase a new stock of computers, lost millions of dollars since all my contracts and business records were on the computers in question, and the machines that I received back from the police were in no working order. Who do I have to bribe to have justice from the legal system.
Ranfred Williams
General Manager
weChatting.com

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