Law and order at ‘optimal level’

Clement Rohee

“There is no, I insist, no breakdown of law and order in Guyana,” Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee declared yesterday as parliamentarians wrapped up their submissions on the 2011 national budget ahead of the consideration of the Estimates, which begins today.

Rohee was at the time responding to several charges levelled by opposition MPs last week about the state of public security locally. The minister dealt primarily with those originating from PNCR-1G Shadow Minister of Home Affairs Debbie Backer and singled out three of the claims. According to Rohee, the first was that the PPP/C administration was responsible for the breakdown in law and order;