Guyana’s Murderous Madness

– The Politics of the Seventh Parliament

In these Op-Ed pieces one is given to (hopefully) well-thought out analyses and conclusions, strongly-held, truth-and-fact views, sometimes preachy “lectures” and heavily-referenced or endorsed dissertations.

Not being too academically-gifted, I often eschew any personal inclination to attempt intellectual loftiness. Instead, using reasonable vocabulary, I share down-to-earth views derived from verifiable, empirical, man-in-the-street evidence. Yet from a legal, justiciable perspective, some views and knowledge would both be difficult to prove and win acceptance in a court of law. But all that will not deter me today from sharing my layman’s perspective on murder in Guyana as currently, sickeningly manifested.

The crime, the front pages

What is the real actual crime? The responses, the reasons?

Ordinary folks – seemingly, most of whom commit such acts – know that murder or homicide is the killing of one human-being by another. Related crimes are manslaughter – when there is a killing or “murder” of one by another but deemed to be done without express, implied intention or malice before the act; not a pre-medidated, planned deed; suicide, killing oneself,