Minister Rohee’s announcement that the government has agreed to change the name of the police in Guyana from the Guyana Police Force to the Guyana Police Service was greeted by some of my drinking colleagues with much hilarity. Not being au fait with the genesis or intention of this change, these persons instinctively concluded that the proposed change was nothing more than another PPP/C attempt to take the Guyanese people for a ride.
This kind of negative popular knee jerk reaction to government pronouncements is not new, says a great deal about how our political relations are developing and does not bode well for the future.
