Dear Editor, Minister Ramjattan has so far rolled out three “master plans” for fighting crime that was totally useless and scientifically baseless. First he started with the now unpopular “2AM curfew” where he said that it would have reduced crime, road accidents, domestic violence and generate a better workforce all at once. From his perspective this was his silver bullet on the crime fighting front. As we can see now, the Minster had never provided any data to back up his position and in an ironic twist, he is now asking the entertainment business community to show data that they are losing money. Secondly was his gun amnesty programme, which saw people dumping their unwanted guns to the police. With over 90 per cent being single shooter shot guns, can someone ask Minister Ramjattan how many gun crimes in the past six months were done using shot guns? However, in his own fantasy world, he believed that it was a success? Now the Minister is rolling out his latest “master plan” and that is a public consultation on tints on vehicles. His logic here, I am assuming, is that criminal activities occur mostly using tinted vehicles, and as such crime will reduce by making tints less darker or removing it all together. Again the Minister seems to be so far from reality it becomes laughable. Everyone in Guyana, except for the Minister, can see that large number of deadly crimes have nothing to do with tints. Instead it is home invasions and motorcycles as transport. The recent robbery of the money changers was done by motorcycle bandits. All or most of the Berbice/East Coast crimes were home invasions. Can the Minister really look these victims in the eye with any conscience what so ever and say that his plans for fighting crime is working to protect them? The reality is that Minister Ramjattan is clueless and visionless on the crime fighting front and to make it worse, he got a salary increase for his disastrous efforts. Instead we are seeing that Minister Ramjattan is wasting valuable time to disrupt a Hindu/Guyanese tradition of Diwali and cussing out Bharat Jagdeo. One can argue that Minister Ramjattan is either a baggage to APNU/AFC that they cannot get rid of or they are all visionless like him. I will let my fellow Guyanese decide.

Malcolm Watkins, CSCP