If this government was a racist gov’t as you are trying to make it to be then the public service and police and army would have been different today. go check it out.

If they were doing their intelligence efficiently and effectively, these mass round ups would not be called for. Now they are clutching at straws, and trying to appease the public that they are doing something.

MICHAEL RYAN – GEORGE

GUYANA IS BEING RUN LIKE A SALT GOODS STORE THATS WHY THE POLICE CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT.
YOU HAVE CID RANKS WHO CHARGE AND PLACE PEOPLE BEFORE THE COURT WITH MATTERS THAT WERE ALREADY SETTLED IN A CIVIL WAY AND THE POLICE ADMINISTRATION DO NOTHING ABOUT THIS.
WHERE ARE THE LAWYERS IN GUYANA, I THINK THAT YOUR STATEMENT NOW IS SELF SERVING. THE FIRST THING IS FOR THE BAR ASSOCIATION TO PUT AN END TO RANKS WITHOUT GCE SUBJECTS TO BE ALLOWED TO PROSECUTE CASES.

MICHAEL RYAN-GEORGE

Nothing in the history of Guyana ever rivalled what is going on today. And yes, Oliver Hinckson can be compared to Steve Biko. They both were persecuted for their outspokenness rather than a criminal act they committed.

The rest of the world did not denounce the Burnham Government either. And it is not just a handful of PNC operatives that denounce the PPP. From Eusi Kwayana to Freedie Kissoon, there are people whose revolutionary history, unlike many of those now feeding from the trough, cannot be challenged.

If the rest of world come to Guyana and go to peoples houses and interview them they will find out how sick people are of this biased and prejudiced regime. People are afraid to talk now because of the pattern of vindictive reprisals against those who criticize the state. If they could go after a former ally like SN, imagine what they will do to those who belong to the opposition constituency.

What difference does it make that a regime is democratically elected when it monopolises the media paid for by all tax payers, and allows it to be used as a platform for its most extreme sycophants to spew racist stereotypical filth, You cannot find any equivalent of the nastiness that is allowed in the Chronicle against certain population segments, in any other newspaper against the constituents of the PPP. Democratically elected my foot, the policies, behaviours and attitudes render that legitimacy moot.

We certainly do!! when we can’t traverse our own country without first going to police/immigration and customs and CANU.

Mabura Hill’s Police outpost screens you going and coming to/from the rupununi. Ogle has Immigration,

Customs, CANU and GGMC who you must go through leaving to and arriving from the interior.

When you arrive in another location in the interior you must report to the police station and give them your name, age, address and life history.

So yes – we do live in a police state!!

Like dem people seh – dis is Guyana, we’s do wah we wyan heh!!

The Government can justify its campaign against crime and violent criminality when it cautions Law Enforcement to proceed under the guidance of Laws and Constitutional Guarantees. But this is not what is happening in Guyana today. In fact the Government and many who have been given space to air their opinions under cover of annonymity are extorting the joint forces to operate as though they were in a war against a clearly defined population group, and advancing all sorts of excuses and justifications for human and civil rights abuses.

Guyana is in the vice grip of a meanspirited dictatorship. No doubt about it.

I have said time and time again, that the police have enormous powers, and they
use them to the hilt. Mr Eleazar’s words mean niothing to them and will mean
nothing to them for several challnges were made in the past to such police
actions, to no avail. It is always explained under, quote Mr Eleazar, ”
(e) any person whom he has good cause to suspect of having committed
or being about to commit any felony, misdemeanour or breach of the peace”

Very simple…’has good cause to suspect’, and therein lies the exercise of
enormous power, ‘good cause to suspect’. It might be whimsical, but no
magistrate will ever doubt the sincerity of the police for they are there to uphold
the law, to serve and to protect, and in its nature give them credibility.

An officer approaches an individual and is met with cuss words and loud \voice, as say for example, ‘why you ’s’ stopping me.’, or ‘what the ef is dis?’, and
proceeds to make an arrest for causing a “breach of the peace”. No court would
doubt the officer’s expalantion. It is a police state under such circumstances,
and words of protest mean nothing.

If there is a competent and reliable police relations body which could
expeditiously deal with complaints against the police then we might see better
‘good order and governmance’, for the police would realize that they cannot and
should not exercuse extreme power under the least pretext.

The word on the street is that these late Friday nights / early Saturday mornings
raids are intended to justify the police approach to crime solving and bandit
hunting, as well as making it clearer to all that power rests in their hands.
In most cases the persons are locked up for the weekend and then released
on Monday mornings.

What has the police gained?
Nothing but more public distrust and resentment, while the police chief gloats
that his men are seriously working.

Some joke.

This regime does not care about the rights of the people.

Only a certain section of the population is faced with police aggression and brutality.