I AM in pain and shock, even tears again for the senseless murder of a hardworking and ambitious Guyanese, who worked night and day to pay the installments of his car, and to maintain his family as the sole bread winner.This is not the first taxi driver to be killed for his car. Then many more have been seriously injured, some maimed physically and mentally for life. The criminals have no appreciation for those who work, those they will steal from. If they steal and rob the drivers, why injure them? Why kill them?

Imagine the pains and anguish of the families of the hardworking, handsome man. His mother must be in bitter tears, as is his father and siblings. Oh Gosh!! Imagine the pains of the wife, and his children, the sufferings they have to face through life. His children seeking education will suffer the difficulties having lost the father who could make that possible. The wife has to seek employment, and when women are divorced or their husbands die, people (men) usually disrespect them.

Further, taxi drivers, construction workers, conductors, usually do not pay into the National Insurance Scheme; I hope he did. I encourage all people in the various industries to also take on a life insurance policy, and to please get covered by NIS. Persons employed as groups, even as contractors can take group life/accidental insurance for unnatural deaths, and even include life insurance on it with the facility to move. They are very cheap actually, and should be looked upon as an investment. One has to invest for the sake of one’s children, as death is definite, and with the criminals out there, it can come anytime.

A SPECIAL NOTE: It always amazes me that people will purchase vehicles valued minimum $1.5 – $30 million at times, and in between, but they find it hard to install a Satellite Tracking System costing maybe under $60,000 with a small monitoring fee monthly.
One could also have a panic button to alert the base and relatives by SMS messaging. The map will show the location, it could be tracked on any smart phone or computer. If the installed method is chosen, the vehicle can be ‘killed’ by the base or the relatives. Even the personal tracker has a panic button (but cannot ‘kill the engine’). It can be transferred from person to person, or vehicle to vehicle instantly without installation.

Mr. Editor, I am asking you to please publish this letter so we can educate taxi drivers, owners of private vehicles, parents of children driving, etc. A simple device such as this can save lives and prevent a lifetime of heartache, guilt feelings and misery.

Places like hotels, taxi services and airports should make it mandatory for all drivers to have such a system if they wish to work with that hotel or airport or any organization. The vehicles can be tracked constantly for safety, and the panic button used to send alerts if they feel they are being targeted or followed or actually held up. Car rental agencies, wholesale, manufacturing and retail businesses and manufacturers still do not see the merits of the tracking system. Dishonest drivers and employees can also be caught.

I extend deepest sympathies to the wife and children, the parents and relatives of the Late Rudranauth Jeeboo, and to all taxi drivers who were hurt or killed in the past. I remember a very pretty lady in the East Coast who was murdered by some youngsters. I just wonder how people can take another human life so easily.
ROSHAN KHAN
RK’s Dragnet Satellite Tracking and Asset Recovery