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Responsible driving is more than obeying laws – Min Walrond
(Kaieteur News) – Minister of Home Affair,s Oneidge Walrond on Friday told the audience at the launch of Road Safety Month in Region Five that responsible driving is more than just obeying laws as it also entails not using cell phones and wearing your helmets as cyclists.
Minister of Home Affairs Oneidge Walrond
She said it also includes, “never driving under the influence and respecting feelings. These small choices can mean the difference between life and death. A single moment of carelessness, speed and distraction or driving under the influence can end a life and alter many more forever. Let us make careful driving a national habit, a reflection of who we are as a people—responsible, respectful and caring for life. According to her, too many persons leave their homes filled with purpose and plans only to have their journey ended by tragedy.
“Behind every road fatality is a family shattered, a child left without a parent, a community robbed of potential. For road safety is not just a transport issue, it is a public health issue, an economic issue, and above all, a human issue. It affects all of us,” Minister Walrond stressed.
“Careful driving means being alert, patient and disciplined. It means being alert, patient and disciplined, not only for ourselves, but for those who share the road with us; the child walking to school, the elderly crossing the street, the motorcyclist heading to work. When we take the wheel, we take responsibility for life around us. Responsible driving is more than obeying laws,” the minister said.
Walrond highlighted that Guyana has made remarkable strides over the last few years in law enforcement and improving safety across the roadways. Under a small organisational agenda which is supported by the Home Affairs Ministry, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has implemented safety operations through the Operation Road Sentinel and Safe Parties, which have reduced traffic offenses in key regions.
Minister Walrond assured that her ministry in partnership with the GPF remains steadfast in advancing the country’s national safety, one built on enforcement, engineering and education.
Traffic Chief, Assistant Commissioner Mahendra Singh in his address, encouraged persons to be decisive decision makers and stand resolute with the authorities to make the desired change “to reduce accidents, to improve the experience with which the road is used, and generally projecting an image on our country as voluntarily compliant, and not necessarily people from whom compliance has to be sought of each time.”
He further encouraged patrons who were license holders to practice the five C’s of defensive driving, as he believes that this will bring about a change.
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