Is disappearance of two sugar
workers a political conspiracy?

Dear Editor,

As the Home Affairs Minister prepares to demit office, the victors celebrate in the manner they have been accustomed to - knocking off a few poor, innocent ‘coolies'.

Assuming that the two missing GUYSUCO workers from Enterprise were killed by Buxton bandits, just like the Enterprise three, including 10-year-old Mervin, on May 6, 2001, not far from the current crime scene; and assuming that robbery was not the motive in either case, shouldn't the police look somewhere else than Buxton for clues and a common motive?

After all, there was no material gain by the killers in both cases.

There was also nothing to gain in shooting at the searching aircraft.

Doesn't all this smell of political conspiracy? If the bandits do not gain by these unconscionable murders of poor laboring Indo-Guyanese, who does?

Wasn't the murder of the Enterprise three a prelude to the 2001 general election, just as the murder of the two workers on May 20, 2005, (I am convinced it is murder) another warming up to next year election?

Just exactly what are the socio-political implications of knocking off poor Indo-Guyanese labourers, just prior to general election?

For a start it throws the entire rustic, predominantly Indo-Guyanese labouring community into a morbid, frenzied and infectious phobia - a state of terror becomes existent, as large sections of the community become terrified.

They have withdrawn their labour from the economy. Then they vent their lack of faith in the security capability of both the police and the government they elected into office.

Then the “backtracking” accelerates. Check the statistics. At every subsequent election, since 1992, the PPP/C, despite its inroads into the Black and other electorates in Guyana, has received a consistently reduced mandate.

And this can only be attributed to the massive extent of back track emigration (not votes chopped off by Ravi Dev).
Last week's murders now give the people adequate time (well over a year) to make their back track arrangements. And I am certain the Enterprise two of May, 2005, are just the trailer to another horror movie we have been seeing at every election, since the beginning of time. This is clearly political terrorism.

Terrorism is the slaughter of a few innocent people in order to terrify the masses. Terrorism has a political agenda, not a criminal motive, such as robbery. Terrorism cannot be confronted by conventional means.

Herein lies the reason for the failure of police and army to solve the Buxton problem. They treat the situation like crime.

It is not crime. It is terrorism and will remain a canker, until the government recognises it as such.

If the government thinks local political terrorism cannot bring down the government, they should think again, and read a page or two from the (Irgun) Israelis, who were the original masters of terrorism and perfected terrorism to the point where they were able to defeat the British and gain their independence.

Gokarran Sukhdeo

The Buxton situation is keeping investors away 

Dear Editor,

I was born in Nabaclis among black folks and never had a problem.

In Canada, when we have an area with problems, the police leave no stone unturned until the last culprit is caught.

Commissioner Felix should do the same, or seek some advice from a certain government official.

Although his tactics may not be legal, he can get the job done.

How big is Buxton that these hooligans can't be caught?

The Buxton situation is keeping investors and visitors away.

Norman Tewarie

Wednesday 06-01-2005