Dear Editor,
The recent capture in Trinidad of another entrepreneur shows that the US government means business in decreasing the export of narcotics. As some have already mentioned the US has no confidence in the Guyana government with regard to arresting criminals involved in drug trafficking.
It is a start and I hope the momentum increases. In Guyana there are scores of well known individuals who thrive off the drug business and many of these have very big business fronts.
Successive governments in Guyana have turned a blind eye to the activities of these young and wealthy individuals. Money talks and like all third world countries, corruption is on a very big scale. In the days of the war in IndoChina narcotics was introduced in IndoChina to destabilise the countries there, this backfired and the thousands of GIs who got involved in drugs as users and dealers established thriving businesses in the US.
Sellers the world over experiment with ingenious ways to evade the authorities, many are caught. The administrations in the developed countries need to do more to curtail this activity, they are the users. Singapore and Malaysia are to be commended for their very strict laws on drug trafficking, those caught are executed.
It is that simple, execute the traffickers and the trade will take a dive. There have been instances where members of the legal profession compromise themselves with narco money and when collusion exists at such high levels, anything is possible.
This we see the world over and Guyana is no exception, its name has been tarnished several times as an entity in the lucrative business of narco trafficking.
For several years there have been talks of implementing all kinds of strategies to curb trafficking, nothing is ever done. Talk is cheap, implementing the laws is a Herculean task and a weakling like Guyana stumbles at every step.
Yours faithfully,
Vijay Singh
