Guyanese Online

Aug 16, 2021 Editorial – Kaieteur News

Recently, changes have been made at senior operational levels inside the Guyana Police Force.  Among citizens, the expectations are for less daily victimisation, less violence read about, and less fear surrounding one’s venturing into the criminal minefield that is Guyana nowadays.  To put differently, all citizens desire to have a certain minimum degree of safety and security, and the confidence that comes from knowing that such safety and security actually exists.

But it is not so in Guyana today, where crime is out-of-control, and of any soothing statistics that represent otherwise, we have this to say: statistics be damned.  Because statistics that are massaged and kneaded like dough do not have any meaning for fearful Guyanese.  We in the independent media are well aware that leaders in the PPP Government would prefer that we do not report on the continuing state of crime in this society, which is now clearly only at a state of low-level anarchy.        Continue reading →