Ramjattan unmoved by private sector call for easing of bar curfew

“Absolutely not! It’s the law and I am only adhering to the law…the next thing they will ask me is they don’t want to pay taxes,” Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said in rejecting a call by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to ease the 2am curfew to 4am on weekends and holidays.

“They just don’t understand the (correlation) between heavy drinking, domestic violence, traffic accidents…we drive badly when we drink,” he said, while also pointing to the impairment of reflexes and the impact on work.

When asked by Stabroek News what evidence there is to substantiate that within the Guyana context,