– What is going on in Guyana are not chance occurrences but a well-planned, calculated scheme to destabilise our country by violent means

THE recent discovery of two teenagers caught red-handed with high-powered arms and ammunition has sent shock-waves through the Guyanese community.
The discovery by two alert cops on patrol has certainly averted what might have been another massacre somewhere in Region 4, no speculations here. It is quite clear that with such high-powered weaponry (two grenades, an M16 and two full magazines, and 61 pieces of .223 ammunition), these youngsters were on a murderous mission. We are talking here about weapons of mass destruction, which would have created mayhem had they reached their intended target/s.
While this latest find comes as a shocker, it is by no means surprising, seeing that only a few weeks ago, a group of criminals gave a murderous decree to a city magistrate that “We gat family that gun f*** y’all up.”
This was no idle talk; rather, it was a clarion call for mass killings of the type these guys are capable of. So, the proliferation of firearms comes as no new development on the crime front, only a worrying trend which authorities has to closely monitor.
What I am particularly worried about is the ease with which these guys can acquire so much weaponry, and can be found casually traversing a city street; the scenario is indeed troubling to say the least, and I am of the opinion that higher powers, or should I say “bigger influential persons” are behind this.
It is too strange a coincidence that two teenagers can be in possession of such weapons of mass destruction. It tells me something is afoot, and the results definitely won’t be pleasant. This is something the Police Force has to really get to the bottom of, lest we descend into the bloodbath of another crime spree.
Something sinister is at work here! And I call on the Opposition to give an explanation to the Guyanese public as to what is actually going on. You cannot tell me that youths of a certain ilk are caught with high-powered weaponry in a constituency that is staunchly theirs, and the Opposition is silent. They were so vociferous in the Harding matter when a criminal — please note, Harding is a criminal that has been made out to be a saintly victim — was allegedly brutally assaulted and sodomized by a police officer.
If they are so much into this matter, then why not do the same when youths of similar character are caught red-handed with illegal weapons? Why the dead silence? Or, must I say that they are now hibernating, soon to resurface with another case of “the Harding type”? Then, let us brace ourselves for another ruse of a forced confession statement, or the old worn-out police brutality issue.
If I were the police, I would embark on the following:
(a) Deny them access to any legal counsel who might want to coax the felons into making these outlandish allegations of rape and torture;
(b) Then work on them — police together with a well-trained psychologist — to get the truth out of them, their mission, source of weapons as well as the ‘bigger people’ involved;
(c) I would even go so far as to offer them a deal if they speak the truth; for example, offer them less time in jail, or no time at all; mere rehabilitation through a humane method, if only they give the lawmen the source and content of this latest mayhem.
I hope it is not too late for this in the light that they might have been visited by an attorney, the likes of a Nigel Hughes. If they were tainted, then this means that valuable information that should have come in handy for future operations would have been lost from us.
What is going on in Guyana are not chance occurrences, but a well- planned, calculated scheme to destabilise our country by violent means. Mark you well, there are many ways to destabilise or make a country “ungovernable” as the late Desmond Hoyte had asserted. This is one of them. We are at the tip of a gigantic iceberg where crime is concerned, and if the government and law enforcement do not act quickly enough, this nation would certainly descend into chaos and anarchy.

NEIL ADAMS