A tragedy is waiting to happen in Essequibo

Aug 04, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Kindly afford us a little space in your columns to share the following:
The police on the Essequibo Coast transport prisoners from the lockups to the Courts in a pickup truck. The prisoners are transported at the back of the pick-up truck. They are handcuffed and shackled. Ranks armed with guns will sit with the prisoners and in this way they speed along the road with sirens blaring.
One day this vehicle will get into an accident and on that day people will die. The people at the back will bear the blunt of it since they have no protection. The ranks who will die will be given a Police Funeral and their relatives whatever meager benefits the GPF offers.
As for the prisoners… well they will die and that is the end of their story. Their relatives will be given nothing, told nothing. Perhaps there will be an investigation and perhaps recommendations will be made for improvement but like everything else in this country, nobody will do anything, for you see, human life means nothing here.
Even death does not move us. We have become a people depraved of being human. We are only human when something affects us or our families and relatives directly.
Outside of that we shut our windows and close our doors to human pain, suffering and indignation. Two motor cyclists lost their lives because people left machinery and equipment along the road parapets.
Those two lives mean nothing to this nation for there are still machinery and equipment on the road parapets. More will die and nothing will happen for you see the loss of human lives means nothing to us.
Essequibo Citizens

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