No. I used to live close to Bel Air and had many friends there. I can as an orinary person pass by his house and stop and speak to him or his wife. They were friendly people that I enjoyed conversing with. Plus for all those years I supported him since Burnham kept rigging the elections and denying him the people's choice to govern Guyana. A right that you folks are happy existed today which did not exist until Hoyte was forced to give up Burnham's election MO.

Irfaat is Ksaz's family.

Still you can't bring yourself to answer a simple question.

Irfaan needs to move on. His lucrative lifestyle is now over.

The crime rate today is a result of todays society also. One cannot purely compare it to the '70s. There are many contributing factors as they are even in the US where while the crime rate has come down some, it was way up from the '70s. And not in all aspects too. Just look at how many police officers have been killed this year in America compared to prior years.

Your questions are asinine. Why are you being a moron today?

You need to clean up your "tongue".  Alyuh win so be careful or you will slip-up like Bheri.

Janet was a card carrying angry Marxist Leninist who loved Stalin and Fidel Castro.  They would have taken you to cut cane in the day and learn your Marxist Leninism at night.  Just like in Cuba.

And on top of that, they would denied you the right to leave Guyana.  Just as in Cuba and the USSR.

You have a point. I was never going to go. I know that as I knew I can breathe. Most of the people I know from university were the rich kids from the GY elites who skipped NS. And it was instituted as a paramilitary arm of the National Government. There again you were right, However, the PPP would have done the same thing. It was the paradigm of third world societies at the time that sank into the marxist sphere of influence.

That being said, we do need a program like that now. We need two kinds one as an institutional remedy to our junkie problem where they can serve their time and get help and another for the general population institutionalized as a volunteer arm of the society with emphasis on vocational learning, service and academics as research branches of the military and UG.

Is my question being asinine or you being cowardly?

I don't have a problem with some kind of National Service. Even Obama talked about it since it gave people a chance to give back for things they got that they wouldn't have gotten on their own. The problem is that Burnham's National Service was for his military and indoctrination objectives and it only managed to help bankrupt the country. Even back then many had preferred to serve in the civilian sector like as teachers especially there was a shortage of teachers but that wouldn't have satisfy Burnham's goals. I like to leave woulda, coulda, shoulda for you all intellectuals. I prefer to focus on what actually happened. That said, I don't see an obligation to focus on what the PPP would have done. The only thing we know for sure is that it was dissolved under the PPP government.