AFTER reading the newly appointed Attorney General, Anil Nandlall report on reforms he intends  to implement, I have to say it will be good to see repeat offenders off the streets of Guyana. The Bail Act would try to bring consistency to the judicial approach towards the question of bail.

Most Guyanese will only be too happy to see bail set so high for the common street pick pocket and choke and robbers that they would think a million times before locking off someone’s throat and running through their pockets or snatching chains off people’s necks or biting rings off the fingers of hapless victims.
In most cases such as this, this might be the first time they are caught since their main career is to steal but was never caught before.

I remember my friend walking through America Street where he was choked and robbed of only $180 he had in his pocket for transportation to go home that evening.
For over a week he could not talk because of the brutal manner in which they locked off his neck to run through his pockets.

Almost all Guyanese would love nothing better than to see no bail, period, for armed robberies and when found guilty the bandit must spend no less than 40 years behind bars.
Almost all Guyanese would love to see terror charges attached to armed robberies because terror is what victims feel when they are violated.
Mr. Anil Nandlall should ask all victims how much terror they feel when armed robbers using a loaded gun that is trained to their heads and possibly maimed and or disfigured, should the victims struggle to defend themselves, and in some cases killed after the terror ordeal they endured at the cruel hands of criminals.