Editor’s note: As part of the newspaper’s contribution in the run-up to the November 28 general election, the presidential candidates of the political groupings represented in Parliament have been invited by Guyana Publications Inc to submit weekly columns which will be carried in the Sunday Stabroek. The series began four weeks ago and will end on November 27. The columns below were received from the People’s Progressive Party/Civic and A Partnership for National Unity.
The four Disciplined Forces of Guyana – the Guyana Police Force, the Guyana Defence Force, the Guyana Prison Service and the Guyana Fire Service – have been treated with a mixture of ambivalence, suspicion and aversion by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration from the time it entered office in October 1992. The result has been that, as transnational crimes spread and criminal violence plagued the country, especially during the past 12 years,
