They begin by stealing pencils and books from classmates in school, without being punished by parents when they take their spoils home.  Instead of plaudits for the acquisition of an education, or for getting good grades, they are encouraged to bring home the belongings of others by parents who feel that not having to purchase those stolen items frees up that money for other purchases.
They then graduate to stealing cell phones and openly snatching money and backpacks of other students, still with the scenario of unconcern, and even encouragement, played out at home.  It does not take long for them to arm themselves and bully the vulnerable and more decent children out of their possessions.  They subsequently divert their activities by skipping school to look for easy pickings on the streets – and an education, for which the Government makes provision, with great chunks of the budget allocated to the Ministry, is treated with disdain as inconsequential and irrelevant in the pursuit of quick and easy riches.
Many, when they find it difficult to find an easy victim, divert to selling drugs, often inveigling their schoolmates, even seducing some of the girls with gifts and a good time.
Eventually they drop out of school.  The stolen money that they acquire is so easily obtained that neither an education, nor work obtained through the acquisition of an education, is an option for them.
All the while their families enjoy and flaunt the bounties of their ill-gotten riches.
It is only a matter of time before they proceed to the next stage, joining a gang to invade homes in pursuit of big hauls, and for this the arms have to be convincingly intimidating, so the big guns are acquired.  Taking a life in the course of the act then becomes a natural progression.
And this suits Guyana’s opposition agenda, so these criminals are drawn into joining “The Buxton Resistance”, and other gangs, with encouragement of their lawless activities by the architects of destruction, who describe them as marginalized, suppressed, and victimized.
Mothers and fathers complain about poverty and starvation, while large land space in their yards, enough that can grow produce to cook and sell, is taken over by weeds.
While many get away with their nefarious and/or murderous actions, acquiring much wealth in the process, some end up dead.
And then the GHRA and the collective opposition, including some media houses, go on the offensive, without fail, claiming police brutality, extra-judicial killing, that police are targeting ‘innocent’ young men without justification; little caring that these ‘innocent’ young men have been killing law-abiding citizens who have gone through the painful and lengthy process of acquiring an education, or mothers and fathers who have toiled unremittingly – fathers who catch fish in the backdam before dawn then go to a full-time job, and mothers who toil in their gardens, or do other people’s laundry, in order to provide an education and some comforts for their children.
Some maverick members of the security services and members of the judiciary are also culpable for encouraging lawlessness in the society, because they compromise their mandate to uphold the law to satisfy political affiliations and other irrelevant considerations, freeing the offenders to repeat their offences against the society, frustrating the decent police officers, who often lay their lives on the line to apprehend the criminals, only to see them let loose on the streets within days.
Guyana is evolving into a society where victims of criminals and law-abiding citizens have no rights, because the GHRA and the opposition, including sections of the media, only represent the rights of criminals.
So the culture of our society is evolving, and criminality is taking the lead in dictating its trajectory.