Dear Editor
ON Page 8 of the Kaieteur News on Monday 6th May, was the column headline “US report highlights police torture, unlawful killings in Guyana.”
I am 80 years of age and have been working with a construction company for the past 30 years. Out of that period, I have been absent for eight days (this company treats its employees very humanely and is not discriminating).
I have the ‘belly’ to get up every morning and be out for work. I am on the road from 5:15 am. On Saturday, 13th April, as I was on my way to work, taking my usual route (north along Louisa Row – through the middle entrance of Le Repentir Cemetery), as I turned Success Street and was about 50 yards into the cemetery I saw a ‘black youth’ coming towards me riding a cycle. This was not unusual, but suddenly he stopped his bike in front of me and the next thing I know there was a gun pointing at my forehead and the question, “wuh you got”?

I had $10,000 in my pocket. I immediately went into my ‘hatch’ and told the man ‘I get two ; he took it and as I was about to be on my way, I felt a blow on the left side of my face; all I know was that I felt a liquid running down my face. He used his weapon to fracture my jaw. It was blood! I was bleeding profusely through my nose and ears; the rest is history.

Relevant to that afore-mentioned headline, I wonder if the police were around and had confronted that ‘loser’ and after a confrontation he would have been ‘passed out’; would Big Brother say it was police brutality? Those guys with their ‘tool’ and ‘losers’ who don’t have the ‘belly’ to wake up and face the rigours of life by finding some honest gig. I wonder and doubt that if they have the ‘belly’ to take their ‘tool’ and represent this country if the occasion arises. I am 80 years old and I would represent this land of my birth. The solution for their heinous crimes is to catch and jail the robbers and hang those who kill during the course of their robberies. President Desmond Hoyte did it and they had backed off; had I died during my confrontation there would have been no human rights. But had the perpetrator been killed, “Big Brother” and human rights would have had a field day.

Regards
Murtland “Slugger” Williams