Abject poverty, Molly’s murder

Before allowing myself to be infected with what is usually described as “the Christmas Spirit” from next Friday – I hate the premature commercialisation of Jesus’ Season – today I allow myself to succumb to the now-daily death-on-the–front-page syndrome and reality of our society.

And since I did intend pre-Christmas brevity today, I’ll be extremely brief and simple today. But how simple – or simplistic-could I be about poverty and crime in today’s Guyana? The Guyana I long decided to stay in permanently and to die in – hopefully not by murder or misdemeanour?

Stabroek News Senior Journalist/Reporter Oluatoyin Alleyne, corrected a somewhat Sunday