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Crimes under the PNC vs the PPP:

As a young Guyanese professional, I am disheartened and somewhat insulted to read an article by three individuals who one might expect to engage in honest and unbiased debate. I refer to the article in Kaieteur News titled “The PPP has not done enough to fight crime by Dr. Asquith Rose, Chandra Deolall and Dr. Merle Spencer-Marks’ published on the said newspaper website on 10th March, 2015.
The claim that the PPP has not done enough to fight crime in itself was the shock, and it was the evidence and suggested causes of the issues of criminal activities, their links to the economy and addressing the problem that dealt the disappointing blow and convenience me that the content of the article were either convenient dishonesty or academic ignorance of the subject matter on the part of the authors.
Without doubt, crime in all its version does not support economic, financial and social prosperity at the household level or at the country level. For this reason, it must be fought with intelligence, strategy and brute force when necessary, to abate all forms of it. Crime in Guyana today is at its lowest in our history, and this did not happen because the PPP government ignored the problem, it is because significant attention was paid to it.
Unlike the PNC administration which supported criminal activities, the PPP has a record of anti-crime strategy backed by evidence. Twenty-one murders in the first two months of 2015 is indeed bad. But one cannot talk about the issue of crime without asking the question of whether thisis an increase from last year and the year before during the same period? What is the likely motivation for these murders? And whether these murders are linked to the fact that there is an election coming up. Is this a strategy of intimidation and scaring of the population that the PNC administration has a record of?
Criminal activities are ever changing; globalization, deeper integration, increase tourism and general economic development, all have significant influence on the nature, frequency, type, and severity of crime. With all the technology and financing in the United States, random shooting in theatres and schools have not abated. If anything, it seems that criminals are always ahead of the game. I draw this comparison to convey clearly to the Guyanese people that even for a country like Guyana, fighting crime will and always will be a continuous and evolving challenge for the government.
The suggestion from the authors that some effective multi-pronged approach to fighting crime that APNU+AFC would implement would make Guyana safer is nothing more than a gimmick, considering the fact that the leader of the coalition, Mr. David Granger, was Brigadier when crime was at the highest level in Guyana.
So bad it was that today we are still struggling to deal with murders cases under the PNC administration. Do these people think that Guyanese are stupid? Or is it a convenient dishonesty aimed at instilling fear and panic in society – a signature of the PNC.
It is an insult to the Guyanese people to use the word “democracy” “dignity” “economic progress” and the “PNC” in the same sentence. History is always there for us to look for the evidence and none of this makes any sense to us.

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