Recent letters to this newspaper, online comments and the word on the street all point to a general feeling of revulsion at the escalation of terror and horror visited upon our country over the past few months. There is no shortage of ideas as to what ails Guyana or what needs to be done.
Suffice it to say that we have come to a very sorry pass indeed in our history as a young republic.
Whether we are a nation living on the edge of the abyss (the optimists’ view) or whether we have already gone head over backside into the depths of an irreversible, all-encompassing decline (the pessimists, some might say, realists’ view) is a moot point. The mass murders at Lusignan and Bartica and the beheading of Farouk Kalamadeen are irrefutable proof that, as one reader has suggested, a cancer, the symptoms of which have been clear for years now, has taken over our society.
