Dear Editor,
The time has come for every decent-minded Guyanese to raise their voice against the spiralling criminal acts that have claimed the lives of so many people in our country.
More needs to be done by our Police Force to solve these heinous acts of killing, robbery, carjacking, etc. So many parents have shed rivers of tears; the loss of loved ones is painful and traumatic, and it makes it worse when these crimes are left unresolved or pushed under the table.
Last year a good friend of mine lost his life after being brutally stabbed; he was in the prime of youth, just married and left behind a fatherless child and a young widow. This year yet another friend, a school mate and church mate was cut down in a hail of bullets; he was a hard-working young man who had studied hard and long to make a life for himself. Now his life has been snuffed out by evil-minded men.
The question is, how much more blood must be shed; how many more innocent lives must be taken; how many more criminal activities must be left unsolved; how many more mothers must cry; how many more families must bear the pain and agony that have visited so many in recent times?
We lived in uncertainty. and the question on everyone’s mind is, who’s next? Or is our right to life ordained by mankind?
The time has come for efficient crime prevention and crime-fighting strategies to be implemented so that our communities and country as a whole can feel safer and be at peace. Criminals must not be allowed to highjack our security and safety; we must fully support our uniformed men and women in rooting out crime and criminals.
Yours faithfully,
Andre Fortune
