Is it safe in Guyana? - Stabroek News Editorial
Is it safe when you could again randomly be targeted at the airport to be robbed, trailed to your home or hotel or an appropriately lonely stretch of road and be set upon by gun-toting bandits? This has happened countless times over the years. That there has not been such an incident in the very recent past is not because of any action by law enforcement authorities. Rather, it’s because travellers have become much more alert and employ subterfuges to confuse any would-be ambusher.Is it safe, when like the Chinese team whose expertise built the Skeldon diesel plant or the Cuban doctors who contribute in the public health care system you could be attacked and robbed by thieves with little or no redress by the authorities?