SUMMONING the greatest impartiality and applying an inquiring mind into the abnormal spate of criminal activity, I am left with a clear conclusion that the perpetrators have become seriously emboldened by the tacit encouragement of both A Partnership for National Unity(APNU) and the Alliance For Change(AFC).  

These political parties have demonstrated an inclination in various forms of not supporting measures by the government intended to arrest the upsurge of crime, thereby sending the wrong message to the criminal- minded. What other conclusion will those who are bent on criminality arrive at but to assume that they are being supported by a one-seat majority in parliament? Did not the parties get together to vote against the PPP/C proposed Firearms Bill earlier this year in March?  
It was a specific Bill intended to deal with persons accused of dealing with firearms and ammunition, also to implement heavier penalties for those found guilty for this kind of crime.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall sounded very caustic when referring to the damning silence from prominent organisations presenting themselves as supporting human rights causes, specifically mentioning Amnesty International (AI); Transparency International (TI); Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA); Red Thread; The Guyana Bar Association (GBA); Guyana Women Lawyers Association (GWLA), and the Berbice Bar Association (BBA). 
The combined silence of these entities in relation to the scandalous and palpably disquieting behaviour of AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes, alluding to the act of Hughes removing a surveillance tape which may have assisted the police in their investigations of a crime at a Buxton gas station and more recently a pernicious forgetfulness in a murder trial in relation to the Lusignan massacre.

Cumulatively, all these shameful actions point to the emboldened criminal activities now stalking this land and the blame falls directly on the opposition parties in parliament, the APNU and the AFC.