The Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Friday night issued a wanted bulletin for United States-based Guyanese Rickford Burke for questioning about a number of allegations, including inciting racial hostility and sedition.
In a brief statement, the GPF listed the alleged offences as: excitement of hostility or ill-will on the grounds of race; sedition; use of a computer system to coerce and intimidate contrary to the Cyber Crime Act; seditious libel; inciting the provocation of a breach of the peace; and inciting public terror.
Section 2 of the Racial Hostility Act states that any person who willfully excites or attempts to excite racial hostility or ill will against a particular race or against any person on the grounds of their race by means of words spoken in a public place or transmitted by telegraphy is guilty of an offence.