Guyana’s Public Security Minister Issues Warning

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan, says, he is satisfied with the response, so far, to the government’s gun amnesty.

“I am pleased that the first day was wonderful, to get a 1000 rounds of ammunition is worth the whole month, quite frankly, and we must be proud of the fact that it is working.”

Ramjattan said, he is using his visits to organizations throughout the country, and he is using the opportunity to push for the month-long amnesty.

“As I come to these meetings, I am telling people, get those friends and family who you know got guns that are illegally possessed, and persuade them to bring them in,” he said.

Ramjattan said, that the initiative is one of many which the David Granger administration will implement in its crime fighting efforts.

“It is only one of the tools in the tool box; there are lots of things we have got to do; gun amnesty is one,” Ramjattan said, urging people in possession of illegal firearms to turn them in.

“I am promising that if you don’t bring them in, in this month, and we catch you, we are going to ensure that you don’t get bail,” Ramjattan said, warning persons that, if anyone is caught with an illegal gun after the amnesty, they “will be jailed with no bail.’

The gun amnesty initiative provides for persons to hand over unlicensed firearms and ammunition to the law enforcement agencies without facing prosecutions. The amnesty ends September 30.