Guyana is a democracy. Institutionalized and observed in our law and practice are democracy’s basic elements, namely, free and fair elections, a free press, a legislature which makes laws and monitors the executive and an independent judiciary which rules against the Government from time to time. Hardly anyone will argue that Guyana has a perfect […]

There is no doubt that the group of killers described as ‘terrorist’ by the Commissioner of Police which carried out the hijacking of a car and the murder of the driver/owner, the shooting of two policemen, the fire bombing of the Supreme Court and arson or attempted arson at the Richard Ishmael school, intended a […]

Kleptomania is compulsive stealing. Where a person steals persistently over a period of time when there is no apparent reason to do so, then the person can be deemed a kleptomaniac. Where, for example, an article can be lawfully rented, hired or borrowed but a person chooses instead to steal the article, even though the […]

I had cause to write recently in an article entitled “Questions Must Be Asked” on problems within the security forces. It gave me great pain to do so. I am now forced to return to the subject. Once again, it pains me. There has been a recent proliferation of allegations against the security forces of […]