Bribing governments

Nov 09, 2026 Editorial, News

(Kaieteur News) – Why should it surprise, that so many white-collar crimes go uninvestigated and unpunished? Why should it jolt the system, as citizens are now learning, that a major crime, such as murder, went uncharged? What was as big as a public secret could get is now enjoying the sanitising of sunlight, due to the long-delayed revelations that the governments accepted bribes from an alleged criminal perpetrator. The court proceedings involving the Mohameds have stirred up old suspicions, given life to long held beliefs, and put the government of the last two, even three, decades under significant heat.

As it stands currently, there is a packed basket of crimes lodged against the Mohameds, one of whom is Guyana’s leader of the opposition. They range from bloodless white-collar crimes to ones where blood flooded the street, as in murder. It is helpful that the new allegations are coming out now. But does the law and the upholding of it, does this country’s system of justice and the delivery of it, have to depend on friends and allies falling out in the worst way, and becoming the ugliest of political foes? That is not justice. That is corruption on a magnitude still to be believed. When evidence of murder lead in a direction, with the smoking guns well in hand, and there is no charge of murder, how many millions made the loss of a life worthless? The question is relevant. There is the latest allegation from a prosecutor of the people of successive governments of Guyana being bribed by the Mohameds for decades.

In open court proceedings, an agent fighting for the PPP/C Government makes that amazing allegation about bribes. Realistically, it is not amazing at all, given the charmed life, the legal immunities seemingly extended not only to the Mohameds, but others with millions to throw at politicians, as if such was cakeshop money. There are some crimes that disappeared off the law enforcement radars too quickly and too effortlessly, of which the Curacao gold boat bust was once. Documents were shared government to government around 2012, and the follow-up investigations that should have happened here simply went out of sight, as in buried underground. A crime, several of them, as big as the Curacao gold boat development, just does not vanish like that, does not get loss in the Guyana Police labyrinth. What the lawyer said in court is of intense interest, should open more than a few eyes (and those minds that are closed). The Curacao gold boat bust could not have been made to go away on the decision of the Guyana Police Force alone. There is the apparatus that stands about the Police, and in which it is enmeshed. That is the Guyana government of the time, which was the PPP/C.

The man said successive governments, which drags the APNU-AFC Coalition into this dirty business. It is a neat trick by the PPP/C Government, but has relevance. The APNU-AFC succeeded the PPP/C Government in May, 2015, not such a considerable time after the Curacao gold boat bust. What did it do to revive investigations? How far did that go, if such ever got off the ground, for starters? Since seemingly not much was done, maybe other than a peek-and-wink, was a bribe involved, and how much was it? It could not have been cheap, not with some of the dirty money men in the Coalition.

A gold boat bust is a curiosity for a time. A street-level, execution-style murder brings the fragility of life into focus. We are focusing on one in the vicinity of the official residence of Guyana’s head of state. Despite the hail of bullets, the PPP/C Government did not appear to be unusually concerned, or angry at the brazenness of those who dared to kill a man so close to the president’s residence, with his family there. Why was that, and what murder mystery did that cover up? To the lawyer’s point, how many millions were involved to keep that quiet, then cold?

More broadly, there could be many more bribes with many more major crimes covered up involving more people. Crimes where blood flowed, crimes where taxpayers were cheated, and crimes where money passed.

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