Dear Editor,
It is said that prevention is better than cure. With this in mind I wrote a letter on the crime situation on the coast (02.11.08) in which I urged swift action. I referred to the swift action taken by the army in 1969 after the Rupununi uprising.
The duty of the police and the army has always been to enforce the law swiftly and efficiently..
My late father’s (Martin Marco) motor cycle wheel was stolen in the Rupununi, which was the end of his transportation. However he was compensated by the person who stole it with a stolen cow (which my poor father wasn’t aware of). After he (my father) had added the cow to his stock for a couple of months my uncle – Bernard Marco – then a police officer stationed at Good Hope (Rupununi) arrived at my father’s house at Katooka in his full unform.
After my father welcomed his brother he was told by his brother that he was there to arrest him for stealing a cow from a man named Dominic. My father was able to keep the cow after all and named it Dominic after its former owner.
The story here is not about the stolen cow – it is about enforcing the law for the safety of the people.
Yours faithfully,
Guy Marco
