Dear Editor,
On Thursday PPP protesters blocked, and or forced the detour, of convoys of President David Granger, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Karen Cummings, and other government ministers, from entering the Guyana Pegasus Hotel where President Granger was scheduled to address a meeting of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA).
Moreover, protesters entered the hotel auditorium and disrupted the meeting and the President’s speech. CGID is shocked at the poor level of security and intelligence provided by the Guyana Police Force. It is worrying that the police allowed protesters to disrupt the President’s safe passage as well as his speech in the exercise of his duties as Head of State.

CGID believes that this gross negligence by the police endangered the life of the President and several ministers. The Institute therefore calls on the government to hold the leadership of the Guyana Police Force accountable and to immediately make changes to the nation’s intelligence apparatus, to ensure this never occurs again.

Regards,
Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID)