"Dope Head" kills father

According to reports yesterday morning a 24 year old man decided to take his fathers life, for $200 dollas. I keep preaching times are getting tough. The man is a known drug addict and less than two years ago he was placed in the Observation Ward at the Public Hospital because of death threats he made to his father. Mental illness and substance abuse are both major issuees in Guyana these days the government needs to address these issues and establish better institutions to deal with these matters and offer support to these individuals. "If government ain't got capital to finance such an institution, I recommend that all those "Bad Man" in Gt should come together and build such an institution. Lawd knows is their substance that got dem people mad on the streets, killing people for their next hit." Moreover they may get on the government good side, just in case " Bad Man" get caught they can always claim "they gave back to the community" and plea for leniency..... haha I just keeping it real.

Drug Bust againnnnnn......

Police have detained an officer from the Central Immigration Department after a quantity of drugs was found on the person of one of her relatives at her Laing Avenue address. Police say they recovered more than 160 packets of marijuana (damn they getting busted for mary j and not even the high value stuff, like white dust, what a stupid bunch) and are looking for a male occupant of the house who managed to run away just as the search was about to be conducted. According to reports, the police, acting on information, raided the Laing Avenue property on Wednesday night. The ranks found two women in the house, including the immigration rank and the drug was found on one of them.

Source: Kaieteur News

Ganja Abuse ...... ( by the way it is an illegal substance)

This is an article taken from The Guyana Times highlighting the accounts of a villager from Goed Fortuin. "Every day they sit idly at street corners ‘ burning the weed’ ( smoking marijuana); as you pass by they will call out to you: " Sis lef' a small change with you fren." The money they collect is often used to purchase ganja and rum and this makes up the daily fare of scores of young men in the low- income settlement at Goed Fortuin, West Coast Demerara.

With opportunities scarce in this market economy, many of the young men are without jobs, but they have families- some with as many as five children. A visit by this newspaper to the community on Monday revealed a kind of hopelessness that is not only a feature at Goed Fortuin, but in many other rural communities across the country. Men and women live their lives with reckless abandon and for every misfortune, they blame it on the authorities or someone else.Only last week there were two murders at Goed Fortuin and in each, the circumstances bear distressing tales of abuse and bullyism.

“ What we see happing [ sic] here is the end product of a culture of drug and alcohol abuse,” a school teacher who asked not be named told this newspaper. “ It is a ganja culture,” the teacher continued, noting that the abuse of the substance is the root cause of the problems the community faces.“ If they don’t smoke it, then they does sell it,” the teacher said, observing that in recent times several strange faces have been showing up in the area."

Well according to Sharma, " I hope the President is watching." Food prices rise, gas prices rise there will surely be an influx of drug pushers, users and an increase in heightened criminal activity.... I thought the Big man had an economic back ground. It doesn't take a scientist to realize what is going on. When a government starts to put their people first, then and only then will these societal conflicts decrease.