OPINION: England: no escaping the law’s reach

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 16:29 by Writer

by GHK Lall

The English must be taken seriously. Certainly, the Metropolitan Police goes after ‘Big Fish’, nab their man. If only before the King’s counsels get to work, deliver their invoices. First, a prince; then a peer who was a minister got reeled in for being encircled in the Epstein net. I offer a bet. If the Epstein files had the name of a ranking PPP Guvment man or woman, bottom dollar that it wouldn’t have mattered one damn bit.

Guyana’s vaunted CID would have lost some speed. Watchdog commissions and committees would be sluggish and peevish and, what Guyanese call, ‘sometimish.’ On the job some of the time, unconscious and unmoving every time a name brand PPP Govt superpatriot is fingered. How does this country function, without wrongdoing? Whatever goes into the hands of the PPP Govt does not leave in the same shape or form, substance or quantity, after the loving attentions of its rearrangers. A lovely country Guyana is. There is more unexplained wealth than declared wealth. Must be the multiplier effect of which so much is heard. The power of compounding it’s called. Yes, I know of that to a tee. But not of so much so fast and not with so many from so high in PPP circles. How is it that such magic doesn’t extend to smarter people outside of that incestuous party and government? It is enough to bend the mind. All these numbers, all these links, all these connectors. Guyana under the PPP Guvment has its own Epstein scandals, its own Epstein depravities, and its own Epstein people. They include, to considerable extents, from its selected luminaries to its endless reservoir of gamesmen and sportswomen, who have that Midas touch: grand self-enrichers. Whatever they go near to, breathe on, turn to gold.

In Jolly Olde England, where a prince, then a member of the lofty peerage, could be carted away in the Black Mariah, the government of the day would topple into a resounding heap, if a tenth, maybe as little as a hundredth of PPP secrets, unexplainable, and rotten were present. In the dear Land of Guyana, men can still wag their gums and speak fluently about respect for the rule of law, and the primacy of law and order. And yet, and yet, there is so much that seep through the cracks, become viral, while from senior leaders to secondary support systems go into overdrive and deliver their practiced sleekness (stupidness) about standing above the fray. Or being happy with the way things are. Despite the physical substantiations. Despite the hue and cry for heads to roll, for people to be held accountable, and for the law to intervene and show that it still has some teeth left.

It has been said that the law is an ass. If that is so, then what is the most appropriate animal appellation for those responsible for transforming the law into such a backward, awkward, and wayward creature? How about a snake, such as an anaconda that suffocates the life of anything unlucky to fall into its coils? How about a piranha that devours the flesh of living and dead? I think that I still have one better than those two. How about a hyena that lies in ambush and picks off what others in the jungle (timber, not concrete) worked so hard for, so that they can get a meal? In view of the endless streams of criminality that happen here under the PPP Govt, a case could be made that the people who reduce the noble and blindfolded standing of the law into a jackass are all three, i.e., anaconda, piranha, and hyena trapped in one body. Human or political body. Take a pick, fellow Guyanese (and Americans). The latter is hauled into this picture, because they always seem to enjoy such unequalled success in partnering with scoundrels of the worst sort. Think of Manuel Noriega of Panama and Reza Pahlavi of Persia. Those two US made noblemen are only letter A in the American alphabet of the dishonorable and disgraceful to their own people and humanity.

In England, prince and peer can see the inside of paddy wagons. In PPP Guyana, if PPP drunk drivers or domestic batterers have no finger of the law aimed at them, then definitely not leaders. Love Guyana, I do.