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Dear Editor,
Our young people today in Guyana are rapidly sliding down a hill into immorality and a life of crime. As I watched the news and read the papers I note with a great deal of interest that most of our young people are involved in some very serious gun crimes. Most are from broken homes and single parent backgrounds and many have no fixed place of abode. A survey conducted at our prisons showed that more than 60% of our prisoners are illiterate or functionally illiterate and over 75% are very young offenders including males and females who are involved in heinous crimes.
These young people are trying to get rich quick by robbing innocent citizens daily and the drug trade is growing like a tree perpetually among the young and old. That motivates them to commit crimes to get money to fuel their drug cravings. We have bicycle and motor bike snatchers in the city of Georgetown; pickpockets, choke and rob and gun toting bandits all over in Guyana as well.
The robbery of the Cambio dealer in Berbice of over 20 million gives us much to think of. And a former police officer was involved according to the news. These big guns they were carrying (AK 47) gives us scary guesses pertaining to where and how they acquire these weapons of mass destruction and if they are not caught they will create a wild rampage of more crimes in this country. Most police officers don’t carry a gun and those at the stations who are always too busy to come when a crime is committed are unable to deal with these hard core criminals who carry weapons of mass destruction. I am yet to hear the voice of the Minister of Public Security, our President and all our foreign Embassies particularly the US, Canada and British Embassy since they happen to be the brain child of this APNU/AFC Coalition Government on how to tackle this crime situation. It is my firm opinion that these big criminals have many master minds or ‘’intellectual authors’’ planning these crimes and more is yet to come if this AK 47 gang is not dealt with expeditiously.
If that cambio dealer who was robbed had a big gun he would have been able to defend himself but now the rich citizens have no guns but the criminals have the guns and these hard core criminals have rights in the courts because they know they will be bailed out easily to go and rob people again. Getting rich quick has been a way of life for many young people both males and females who have embraced a life of crime in Guyana. The crime is here to stay because this government has too many lenient laws. These criminals who killed innocent citizens must be given the death sentence also those who murder people. If this APNU/AFC Government enforces tougher laws the crime will be eradicated. We must remember and honor Mr. Desmond Hoyte when he said: ‘’To Hang Them High’’
If we don’t get rid of criminals they will get rid of us as a nation. They might even take over this nation by a military invasion judging from the military guns they used to rob and kill people. Crime is also a moral problem it stems from poor family values. What we have here in Guyana is too much live-home and ‘shak up’ life styles where so many women have 6 to 12 children for different child fathers and these kids grow up illiterate with needs, so they become the criminals of tomorrow. If our young people have parental guidance and a good home and education they will not turn to drugs and crimes.
Even when thieves are released from prison they go out and do a bigger crime because they have no place of abode. Many prisoners told me they prefer they stay in prison. We need to build schools and churches in our prison compounds to educate these prisoners even get teachers to teach them CXC so they can have a better future. We need a prison reform programme and better living conditions for prisoners.
Drugs and Crime have now become a global phenomenon not only in Guyana but all over the world and we must not be fooled to think that in America there is no crime. Many of these criminals here are deportees from America; they learn about these crimes in the USA. We must act now as a nation to get rid of crime or all our business people will leave Guyana very soon; many have left already.
We must work hard to get what we want not by pushing drugs; we must have more programs for our youths because today’s youths will be tomorrow’s leaders.
Rev.Gideon Cecil

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