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Nov 06, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
Why is it some that people feel they have a right to do to others as they like with impunity? One keeps reading some sickening and frightening accounts on all sorts of terrible things. The front page of our dailies read like an obituary. We read about barefaced, “wrong and strong” bullism and naked advantage being taken on ordinary everyday people simply because they are poor and not counted, and have no one and nowhere to seek justice – which often times comes at an enormous cost which poor folks’ pockets aren’t deep enough to afford.
We read of these things happening in the glaring open, in the eyes of the public including law-enforcers and nothing is being done, sometimes even when a report is made. Can citizens feel free, comfortable, protected when they witness these things, just why are these things happening with such frequency? One has to wonder where is the even-handedness in the modus operandi of the law enforcers in apprehending those who allegedly commit such acts.
We read in the Kaieteur News of Sept. 15th about 33 years old Julius Taylor, of Zeelugt East Bank Essequibo and a father of two who was attacked and beaten by several GDF Coast Guard ranks on July 27th causing him to lose his left eye, Taylor was making his way home after visiting the Parika Police Station. He is now in danger of losing his sight completely if corrective surgery is not done in time to his remaining right eye, and which has to be dome overseas at a cost of approximately $1.6 million Guyana dollars.
He has already spent two weeks in Trinidad where he underwent surgery for that eye. Julius Taylor a fisherman now has difficulty in maintaining his family; is further upset and pained that although the police know where the soldiers are and members of the community including relatives witnessed the beating and no arrest to date is made. The incident took place in broad daylight, he knows them well; he was transported to the Lenora Cottage Hospital by the police, was visited by a policeman who took statements from him, still nothing is done. They didn’t even see the need to contact his family informing them about his condition. How on earth can we accept this negligible, sloppy performance as service, care and protection?
These things are so wrong. This youngster has a family and is now stressed out and hoping for the best. I suspect this is the fate of the children of Lazarus. As said above what we are witnessing daily is alarming and need for much concern; we see increase in wild gun play robberies, killings and kidnappings in brilliant sunshine, increase in road carnage by reckless drivers, blaring and vulgar music in mini-buses more than ever before, increase in suicide, murders, domestic violence, gross intolerance, disrespect and contempt by some Government personnel and other institutions in dealing with the public, not to mention the lawless, vulgar, inane and reprobate behavior of our up and coming generation.
All that and more – covert and overt undesirables are leading us slowly but surely towards the gate of perdition, say what you will we are running on quick sand. Just what on earth could be the reason for this daily avalanche of barbaric, anti-social undesirables? If these things are not checked and worked on this nation will lose its sanity followed by its soul. We can if we wish choose to ignore them all at our own peril; it’s just a matter of time. Albert Einstein was so correct when he said the world is a dangerous place not because of the evil people but because of those who do nothing about it.
Frank Fyffe

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