It must be concerning that days after an exit ceremony for an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-financed citizen security programme that a man should have died in a ward of the capital, the victim of a stray bullet from a shoot-out between youth gangs.
Despite the incident having occurred on Friday afternoon, up to Sunday midday there had been no official word from the Guyana Police Force on either the incident or its investigation.
Accounts of the incident in Albouystown painted a chilling picture of lawlessness and the insecurity that citizens face on a daily basis.