Angry at those who manage and govern the affairs of this country

Jun 12, 2021 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Guyana is fast becoming the most corrupt country in the CARICOM of countries. Beginning with those in government ministries making secret contracts of our natural resources, misappropriating public funds, reckless spending on parties and the greedy, falsely claiming of expenditures that do not exist, while the poor in Guyana suffers the consequences by additional taxation and charges for services when the coffers are depleted. The sad part is these dishonesties are only discovered years after the deed is done and no one seems to be held accountable and prosecuted for their criminal exploitation of our resources, both monetary and natural. These criminals (that’s what they are) are robbing us without mercy while they sit in their lofty offices enjoying the good life, while the man in the street goes to jail for petty crimes.
Such shenanigans are destroying the happiness, comfort, and prosperity of all Guyana and must not be allowed to ever happen again. The solution to stamp out any further fraudulent deceit, a special unit of auditors of good character should be set up to randomly audit every ministry within the government so that any corruption will be caught ahead of time and the perpetrator/s prosecuted and given several years in jail. This special unit could be called Guyana Bureau of Investigations (GBI) answerable to the Attorney General of Guyana and work along similar lines of the FBI in the US.
At first, the US hired private detectives when it needed federal crimes investigated and later rented out investigators from other federal agencies, such as the Secret Service, which was created by the Department of the Treasury in 1865 to investigate counterfeiting. In the early part of the 20th century, the Attorney General was authorised to hire a few permanent investigators, and the Office of the Chief Examiner, which consisted mostly of accountants, was created to review financial transactions of the federal courts.
Am I angry at those we put in trust to manage and govern the affairs of this country? You bet I am!

Yours truly,
An old timer

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