How now, about the September month gun amnesty, Mr. Harry Gill?

Sep 04, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Please permit me space to respond, in part, to Mr. Harry Gill’s September 3rd, 2015, letter to Kaieteur News, lacerating the Honorable Minister Ramjattan’s September 2015 Gun Amnesty program. Many of his opinionated (no empirical evidence supplied, no instances/case sources footnoted nor conducted survey results highlighted) recommendations seem fairly reasonable but nebulous at best. Hmmnn…One wonders why they were not implemented under the PPP/CIVIC administration. In my opinion, to be more of a balanced letter writer on this subject matter, Mr. Gill must first really integrate himself into the labyrinthine mosaic of Guyanese culture-not politics-to become a subject expert to fully evaluate if his recommended models are viable or must they be modified to be in alignment with the Guyanese socio-cultural paradigm, and what feedback mechanisms will be implemented to gauge results. However, enough said on that as I will now respond on a more focused portion of his letter.
Mr. Gill, whom, I must confess, I do not know, seems to be the Siamese twin to Mr. Rohee, as both concurred, with vehement certainty, that the gun amnesty initiative is doomed to fail. Second paragraph, last line -”This program as advertised, is visionless and will bear no fruit.”- firstly, lacks credibility as that particular line is grammatically incorrect. That is dismissively secondary, though, to the actual proclamation Mr. Gill made with 100% certainty, that this gun amnesty will not work. Mr. Gill, may I remind you, Sir, that on the very first day, the media reported that over 1,000 rounds of ammunition and two hand guns were handed in !!!!! Who, therefore, is visionless, Mr. Gill? And, if nothing else, is a thousand rounds of ammo handed in not enough ‘fruit’ for you and your ilk? How do you gauge this gun amnesty initiative a success or not, Mr. Gill?
For too long, many are guilty of regurgitating party propaganda and waxing negative philosophy, at the peril of the simple common Guyanese folks. At least, Mr. Ramjattan is pragmatically trying, for Heaven’s sake, trying, to reduce crime and add quality of life for all, by mobilising available resources as his disposal.
On this particular front, I believe that, up until May, 2015, the PPP/CIVIC administration could have leveraged identical resource and human capital to implement the very strategy now initiated by Mr. Ramjattan but obtusely failed to do so. So, Mr, Gill, there is an old Guyanese saying….”One one dutty build dam !” ..hope you heard of it and, therefore, understand what it truly means.
Jonathan Subrian

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