NEIL Adams in a letter, wrote: “This is the time to send a clear message to drunken drivers. There are too many cases that go  abegging when rich and/or influential people are involved.

The police suddenly become amnesiac, their testimony sketchy, when lots of  ‘I cannot recall’ comes into play. As a result, the innocent and dead suddenly become the guilty parties and the guilty living walk free.”

Mr. Adams you hit the nail directly on its head and I will add to what you said.
I will never forget the poor, innocent man that was killed on the road by a reckless woman driver.
Her lawyer appeared in court informing the judge that his client had some very important business to take care of in Lethem, so bail must be granted, and so bail was in fact granted.
Maybe her case came up in court and she was jailed, heavily fined and her driver’s licence taken away, but I missed it.
I asked my friend in Guyana if he had heard or read anything on that case and he too, said ‘no’ and it’s a sin.
I asked him why it’s a sin?  He said it’s a sin to be poor in Guyana. The poor have no voice and there is also no voice to represent them.

Many people said it’s not the first time the ‘teen’ drove the Tundra that killed two people. So the parents had to have known he was driving.
I am asking people to be very careful when it comes to eyewitnesses in cases such as this.
The rich, the mighty and powerful will pay whatever it takes to make this go away.
Many citizens in Guyana do not have tremendous faith with the DPP since case jackets end up in court without files and some files without names.
Then there are cases where criminals walk free, since eyewitnesses do not show up in court.
Seems to most Guyanese our DPP can’t win cases based on circumstantial evidence, but depends heavily on eyewitnesses.
Our DPP may not know how the eyewitnesses scam works.
In fact, a crime was committed, criminal apprehended, an eyewitness shows up saying he/she will testify. The eyewitness then collects his/her money from the criminal,and will never show up in the court so the criminal walks free.
Does the court then issue arrest warrants for these so-called eyewitnesses and bring them to justice?
This will continue to go on and on and on and those who are killed and wounded in that minibus will be faded memories and a blur to the rich and powerful.
The rich and powerful will get away with murder always, even though it says equal justice for all and no man or woman is above the law.