I agree with Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, when he expressed his disappointment with People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) presidential candidate, David Granger’s attempts to score political points by attempting to use the recent upsurge in gun-related crimes to measure the extent to which the crimes exist in Guyana. Like any other developing country around the world our country grapples with the effects of rising gun crimes, and Granger’s party, the PNCR,  is still unable to give the location of the 237 guns of various calibres issued to it during the Burnham-led government between 1976 and 1979 by the GDF. This is despite the fact that in 2008 the police recovered two weapons out of this cache, in excellent condition from gunmen in  Zeskendren, Mahaicony.
The government has taken positive steps to comprehensively address and improve the security of the country by significantly investing in the security sector. And these include $14.2 billion expended 2010 on institutional strengthening, capacity building, infrastructural works and equipment. The cost of construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of police stations and outposts, fire stations, prisons, the barracks and bases of the security sector amounted to $527.9 million. A further sum of $580.8 million was spent on the acquisition and maintenance of vehicles, including a mobile police station, motorcycles, trucks and buses, while $41.2 million was expended to resource community policing groups.
However, it is also imperative that such efforts are met with necessary support from all sections of society; what support have David Granger and his party given to these efforts?
Very little, except that they become vocal when criminals are killed or condemn every effort by the security forces aimed at combating this scourge.  
I urge readers to remember that during the crime spree of 2003/2004 David Granger had called for the army’s removal from the troubled village of Buxton, then a safe-haven for criminals. Time has proven that had such a move been undertaken, the extent of criminality gripping Guyana would’ve been greater today.
Thanking you for your cooperation