Dear Editor,
Why is it some people feel they have a right to do to others as they like with impunity. One keeps reading some sickening and frightening accounts on all sorts of terrible things; the front pages of our dailies read like an obituary. We read about barefaced wrong and bullyism and naked advantage being taken of ordinary, everyday people simply because they are poor and not counted. They have no one and nowhere to seek justice, which often comes at an enormous cost which poor folks’ pockets aren’t deep enough to afford. We read of these things happening in the glaring open, in the eyes of the public, including law-enforcers, and nothing is done, sometimes even when a report is made.
Can citizens feel free, comfortable or protected when they witness these things? Just why are these things happening with such frequency?
One has to wonder where is the even-handedness in the modus operandi of the law enforcers in apprehending those who allegedly commit such acts.
We read about 33 year-old Julius Taylor, of Zeelugt East Bank Essequibo and a father of two who was attacked and beaten by several persons in July causing him to lose his left eye, Taylor had stopped at a cigarette stall after visiting the Parika Police Station. The incident took place in broad daylight, and he was transported to the Lenora Cottage Hospital by the police. He was visited by a policeman who took statements from him, and still nothing has happened. How on earth can we accept this negligible, sloppy performance as service, care and protection?
As said above what we are witnessing daily is alarming and there is need for much concern. We see an increase in wild gun-play robberies, killings and kidnappings in brilliant sunshine, an increase in road carnage because of reckless drivers, more blaring and vulgar music in minibuses than ever before, and an increase in suicides, murders and domestic violence. In addition, there is the gross intolerance, disrespect and contempt shown by some government personnel and those in other institutions when dealing with the public, not to mention the lawless, vulgar, inane and reprobate behaviour of our up and coming generation. There is all that and more ‒ covert and overt undesirables are leading us slowly but surely towards the gates of perdition; say what you will, we are running on quicksand. Just what on earth could be the reason for this daily avalanche of barbaric, anti-social, undesirable behaviour?
If these things are not checked and worked on this nation will lose its sanity followed by its soul. We can if we wish choose to ignore them all at our own peril; it’s just a matter of time.
Albert Einstein was so correct when he said the world is a dangerous place not because of the evil people but because of those who do nothing about it.
Yours faithfully,
Frank Fyffe
