THE actions of Corentyne residents who blocked the road after accusing the police of involvement in a robbery should be emulated by people all across Guyana. Citizens and professional members of the force should take the same steps to root out the criminal elements in the police force.

The Government is paying criminals a fixed salary with tremendous benefits, giving them state guns and state vehicles to execute their mandate to protect and serve the people, which they instead use to carry out their nefarious acts on innocent citizens.
Since Minister Rohee cannot figure out who are criminals and who are not in that bunch, then he has the authority to fire them all.
Protection should be provided to hide the identities of citizens who come forward to finger some of these rogue police and charge them, try them and, once found guilty, they should be jailed for life.
Government must always be cognizant that many persons who are joining the army and police force are joining merely to get authority over others, as well as to get a gun, a vehicle, a uniform and a badge to get easy access to prey on innocent citizens.
The collusion between elements in the force and opposition political parties is clear, especially from the latest imbroglio of the Colwyn Harding allegations.
Colwyn Harding accused Constable Devin Mahendra Singh of inserting a condom-covered baton into his anus while he was a detainee at the Timehri Police Station facing serious criminal charges.
The Government and the professional members of the police force need to be on the alert and be very vigilant where this is concerned:
Mahendar Singh is East Indian and a police in the PPP/C administration, while Harding is Afro-Guyanese.
Nigel Hughes and other top brass in the opposition have seemingly been trying, judging from their actions, to start a race war a long time now. How come Harding only made this accusation two months after the alleged incident, after the AFC Chairman got involved in his criminal matter as his legal representative? If there had been any truth in his allegations then he should have been dead from peritonitis long ago. One must not forget a lack of ethics when a prominent lawyer was discovered to have tampered with a jury through association with the foreman, a fact which neither of them disclosed. Then also he was representing a criminal facing serious charges.
Guyanese need to beware of a race war when the independent inquiry does not go the way of the opposition? Remember Linden and Agricola?
Will a major public road at rush hour on a working day be blocked, trapping many East Indians to be singled out for beatings, robbing and to be sexually molested again?
There is a link to all these things and President Ramotar needs to take warning and record all discussions and actions taken by all GECOM members representing all the parties to prevent and dissension between GECOM members after elections are held.
What happened during last election must never happen again.
Pass laws now to hold,charge and jail any polling station member who walks out of the polling station before counting of votes are done.
If members of the opposition are making serious threats, get TV operatives and armed police and army personnel with cameras to film their antics and call in United Nations officials to record what is being done and by whom.
Then, without fear or favour, bring them to trial once they carry out their threats.
One way or another, innocent citizens of Guyana must stop being hurt when the PNC loses elections. Killing, rapes, looting and burning must never be allowed after losers lose.
You bet your life, if the PNC were to win an election there would be no intimidating threats, no looting, no burning, no beating, no robbing, no sexual molesting of citizens on the streets.
TED KING