Once again, feuding between Guyana’s two major political parties is proving a major obstacle to a cohesive response to a national emergency
As much as the two recent shocking mass murders at Lusignan and Bartica have cast a pall of gloom over Guyana, the responses of the country’s political leaders to these appalling crimes have added much insult to the injury inflicted by the killers.
In the weeks since the shocking killings political jousting over responsibility for the atrocities has secured far more prominence than efforts to calm the nation and catch the killers.
The slayings are said to have been carried out by a criminal gang led by Rondel ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins, Guyana’s most wanted man – who, shortly before the Lusignan killings had reportedly threatened to create mayhem if a missing Buxtonian woman reportedly carrying his child did not show up unharmed. However, both the government and the main opposition party, the People’s National Congress Reform, have lost little time in adding their own political twists to the drama.
