“It tells us all about what has become routine… that’s corruption… what has become the inspiration for rum and coke for the perpetrators… and senna and salts for the victims,” said GHK Lall, author of Guyana: A National Cesspool of Greed, Duplicity & Corruption (A Remigrant’s Story), which he described as a book for those whose voices are muted owing to fear.
“I wrote this book to tell the story of those who are not in a position to articulate their experience… Every day I hear stories, horror stories of what is happening to others, at their homes and even when you go for a birth certificate,”