SOME of the greatest hindrances to Guyana’s development where for so many years the people are crying out for help with bullies.

Many persons went out and bought their reserved tickets early for Caribbean Premier League cricket matches held in Guyana.
When they turned up at the stadium for their seats, they found that other persons were comfortably seated in their chairs.
When this fact was pointed out, the persons who were wrongly seated simply refused to remove. Law-enforcement authorities had to be summoned.
The errant persons, however, did not go to their original seats, but instead simply sat down in other patrons’ reserved seats.
This happened in hundreds of instances and makes a mockery of the system of having reserved seating.
It happens all the time whenever there is cricket in Guyana. And what is sickening is the attitude of those who are in their wrong seats.
They behave in a “wrong and strong manner” as if they are in the right. The PPP should know all about “wrong and strong” attitude of the PNC.
When you weigh 120 pounds, you do not argue or fight with a 200-pounder. You call for the police, who are not there when needed most.
As regards the traffic jams, many were however patient, knowing that thousands were going to the games, they appreciated that there would be a traffic jam.
They were prepared to wait their turns in the lines of traffic to get to the stadium.
Yet, while motorists were patiently waiting on the line they were others who snaked their way into the stadium. There were hundreds of vehicles actually using the lane reserved for bicycles and pedestrians and moving ahead.
And because they were cheating the system, it meant that having to wait longer was actually punishing those who were complying with the law.
Now how can there be development when those who toe the line end up being in a worse situation that those who break the law?
Again, no police officers were present when needed most, because when one talks, a gun is pointed to their heads by those breaking the law. He who knows it feels it since it happened to my family and me.
Another serious development that takes place right under the noses of the traffic authorities at traffic lights is at most of these junctions there is usually a turning lane and a lane for traffic proceeding straight ahead.
Yet on a regular basis if you are in the turning lane, you will find a motor car ahead which is proceeding straight ahead and which in order to get ahead of others, uses the turning lane instead of the designated lane to go straight ahead.
As a result, drivers who are turning have to wait on these law-breakers before proceeding. This happens all the time and very little is being done about it.
Very little is also being done about another unlawful act regularly taking place at junctions with traffic lights. There are drivers who constantly run the red lights. This is a most dangerous practice that can result in serious accidents.
But if one can assume that a police rank may not always be around at the time to witness these unlawful acts, surely police patrols must notice another dangerous practice that is now quite pronounced in Guyana. That practice is vehicles parking alongside other vehicles on the same side of the road.
The drivers of these vehicles are putting on their hazard lights as if to indicate that their vehicles are experiencing some mechanical failure.
Well, if it is, then it should be towed or pushed to a safe place and not be left to inhibit the flow of traffic.
The more you see these things happening, the more you despair that the problems of this country go far beyond politics.
The problems of Guyana are deeply rooted in the lack of discipline and no country can hope to develop amidst so much indiscipline and lawlessness.