The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) is concerned that politicians have so far failed to address the current spate of violent acts against women.
In a release yesterday, the GHRA likened the situation in Guyana, as far as women are concerned, to the Middle East – incalculable oil wealth together with a “stone-age” attitude to women. The Association said that the “shocking upsurge” of violent murders of women by their present or former partners in Guyana over the past ten days has yet to produce any notable reaction from politicians, “perhaps too absorbed in the new oil wealth to notice the mayhem in communities.” This disconnect, it states, between political parties and electors with whom they are supposedly interacting intensively is not new.